Elissa Altman shares the creative wisdom she gained from the painful experience of releasing her first memoir, which is a gift to the reader.
INTERVIEW: Elissa Altman, Author of Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Bonny Reichert, Author of How to Share An Egg
Amy Fish speaks with Bonny Reichert, author of the culinary memoir, How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty.
INTERVIEW: Marty Ross-Dolen, Author of Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter’s Search for Truth
Told with a poet’s precision for language, and a novelist’s eye for storytelling, Marty Ross-Dolen takes a slightly unconventional approach to this memoir.
INTERVIEW: Suzanne Cope, Author of Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
We would call them feminists today. I don’t know if all four would have used that exact term, but they all really fought for women’s rights.
INTERVIEW: Shannon Luders-Manuel, Author of The One Who Loves You
I had my black family and my white family, and I talk about the black side of town and the white side of town.
INTERVIEW: Caroline Eden, Author of Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
For this memoir, I wanted to bring the reader into my home, and to Edinburgh where I live.
INTERVIEW: Jill Bialosky, Author of The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother
As a writer and a reader, I’m searching for truth, honesty, ways of making sense of difficult experiences.
INTERVIEW: Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of Reading the Waves
Organized in 15 nonlinear, braided essays, Reading the Waves by Lidia Yukanatich is about holding on and letting go. Mostly letting go.
INTERVIEW: Joanna Rubin Dranger, Author of Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir
Joanna Rubin Dranger’s graphic memoir … is a sobering, stunning chronicle of her Jewish family past and present.
INTERVIEW: Amy Fish, Author of One In Six Million
We talk to Amy Fish about her researched nonfiction book, One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust.
