Belief in Action: An Interview With Marissa Landrigan
Marissa Landrigan, author of The Vegetarian’s Guide to Eating Meat, had been a vegetarian for seven years when she came to the slow realization…
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On Joy and Desire: An Interview with Sarah Ladipo Manyika
hen Sarah Ladipo Manyika reads lwaloud from her new novel—the exquisitely titled Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun—she becomes the characters…
A Slave to the Essayistic Impulse: An Interview with Angela Morales
he job of the essayist, like any storyteller,” writes Angela Morales in the introduction to her debut essay collection The Girls in My Town,…
LITERARY STORIES ABOUT ONLINE EXPERIENCES: AN INTERVIEW WITH LEIGH STEIN
I first learned about Leigh Stein after she published an essay in the New York Times about the importance of young memoirists. She writes:…
Investigating Injustice: An Interview with Antonia Juhasz
write about oil,” reads Antonia Juhasz’s business card. And write, speak, report about it she does: from a gas field in Afghanistan, from the…
Short Prose and Persistence: An Interview with Penny Guisinger
Penny Guisinger recently went on the United State’s easternmost book tour for her first memoir, Postcards from Here.
Loss and Labor: An interview with Mira Ptacin
In 2008, when Mira Ptacin was five months pregnant, she attended a writing workshop in Northern California.
Rock and a Hard Place: An Interview with Lauret Savoy
or Lauret Savoy, the American landscape is both a refuge and a provocation. In her work as a writer and geologist, she parses layers…
Truth and Lies: An Interview with Janice Erlbaum
When Villard Books, a Random House imprint, published Janice Erlbaum’s second memoir, Have You Found Her (2008), Vanity Fair threw her a party at…
Beyond the Archives: An Interview with Rebecca Onion
For Rebecca Onion, history is a reservoir of problems and questions that resonate as deeply with the present as they do with the past.
Beginnings, Ends, and In-Betweens: An Interview With Sarah Manguso
“I don’t think in stories, I never have. I know that everybody does, that we do think in stories, that’s like a physiological necessity. I guess I’m interested in parts of stories, but this whole idea of having a narrative arc with a beginning a middle and an end, that just never really worked on me.”