Interviews

Interview — Kate Gale: Co-Founder, Red Hen Press by Lori M. Myers

May 1, 2012

kate gale red hen press in front of plants

Gale’s needs are simple yet extraordinary: She wants works of excellence. Nothing less will do.
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Interview: Joshua Foer, author by Lori M. Myers

April 1, 2012

It’s this sort of “memory” - or lack of - that interested writer Joshua Foer in his award-winning book “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.”
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Q & A with Dinty Moore — Interview by Lori M. Myers

February 29, 2012

When I first became a professional writer and began focusing on writing articles and essays, the name Dinty W. Moore was one name, in fact the only name, immediately associated with true blue creativity in the genre.
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Interview: Linda Joy Myers, President and Founder of National Association of Memoir Writers

December 1, 2011

There is a wide divide between reality and remembering, and the memoirist is often left alone in his or her struggle to straddle that gap. That’s why organizations such as the National Association of Memoir Writers, or NAMW, are so vital to a memoirist’s world. It’s the most important thing you can do for yourself...
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Review: Queering the Tranny by Alex Drummond

December 1, 2011

A transgender and Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapist from the United Kingdom, Alex Drummond is out to help a 21st world better understand the notion of gender. In reality, western society in general takes gender for granted: We are born either male or female. It is a black-and-white issue with no room for asterisks, footnotes or...
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Interview: Literary Agent Weronika Janczuk by Amye Archer

November 1, 2011

When I was in college, as a naive twenty something, I imagined a literary agent to be on par with a unicorn: a magical being that can transport you from one place (unpublished) to another (published) in one swoop. They lived in a faraway place (NYC) and no one ever really saw them,...
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This is Your Brain on Memory: A Conversation with Cognitive Psychologist Jean Pretz by Donna Talarico

November 1, 2011

I decided to peer into the brain itself and see why we remember the things we do, and why the squishy mass inside our heads will often play tricks on us. I am fortunate to work at a college with an excellent psychology program, so all I had to do was stroll across campus...
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Interview: Beverly Donofrio, memoirist/essayist

October 1, 2011

When they announced Bev's name, I think I half expected Drew Barrymore to walk out onto the stage. I had just watched Riding in Cars with Boys only weeks earlier and, despite having read the book first, the image of a brown-haired Barrymore with a Brooklyn accent still resonated in my subconscious. Instead, a...
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Interview: mensah demary Talks About ‘Depressive Episodes’

October 1, 2011

mensah demary’s piece, “Depressive Episodes”, was featured in Hippocampus in July. I liked it when I read it because I, too, have suffered depressive episodes (though it’s never occurred to me to call them that or even think of them that way). But, I wanted to know: what the heck?
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Interview: Anthony Youn, M.D., author of In Stitches

August 1, 2011

Youn may shape breasts (and other body parts) by day, but here, he sculpts a beauty of a memoir. I spoke with Tony in mid-July and, in our almost hour-long phone conversation, we talked about his book, his family, his media experience and the challenges he faces as the author of “a doctor” book—and...
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