J. Michael Lennon’s literary identity has been intertwined with that of legendary writer Norman Mailer for more than a half century.
INTERVIEW: J. Michael Lennon, author of Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Alan Henry, author of Seen, Heard and Paid: The New Work Rules for the Marginalized
Seen, Heard, and Paid is more than a guide for marginalized employees. It’s also an inspiring narrative of a journalist and editor…
INTERVIEW: Sarah Fawn Montgomery, author of Halfway From Home
Throughout this nonlinear collection, Montgomery explores how we try to preserve our lives in things—in our homes, our forests, our oceans, our bodies.
INTERVIEW: Adiba Nelson, Author of Ain’t That a Mother
Adiba’s voice is unabashed, unflinchingly honest, and disrupts any stereotypes you may have about motherhood.
INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Crane, Author of This Story Will Change
For some reason, I thought in creative nonfiction I would not be able to bring my own form and style to it.
INTERVIEW: Sabine Hossenfelder, Author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions
I went into physics because it struck me as the best way to understand how the universe works, and that includes some aspects of our existence.
INTERVIEW: Linda Murphy Marshall, Author of Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
The day I spent at Ivy Lodge, sorting through my parents’ things, being bombarded by memories, jump-started the whole [writing] process.
INTERVIEW: Jonathan Alexander, Author of Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir
Dear Queer Self is an unconventional memoir in which Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self.
INTERVIEW: Selina Mahmood, Author of A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital
Selina Mahmood’s book felt like…was like to be a resident thrown into a hospital system in a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
INTERVIEW: Maryann Aita, Author of The Little Astronaut: A Memoir in Essays
Maryann Aita explores the concepts of intimacy, love, loneliness, and grief in her experimental collection of essays, The Little Astronaut.
