We speak with Mary Alice Hostetter about Plain, her memoir of finding her authentic self amid a rigid upbringing in a Mennonite farm family.
INTERVIEW: Mary Alice Hostetter, Author of Plain: A Memoir of a Mennonite Girlhood
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher, Founding Editor of Longridge Review
We speak with Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher, founder and editor-in-chief of Longridge Review.
INTERVIEW: Deirdre Fagan, Author of Find a Place for Me
Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and Life in the Face of Death is a memoir about facing a marriage’s last act as a couple united in mind and holding hands
INTERVIEW: Juliet Patterson, Author of SINKHOLE: A Natural History of a Suicide
Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide by Juliet Patterson is part-investigation, part- memoir, part-ecological, and pure poetry.
INTERVIEW: J. Michael Lennon, author of Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
J. Michael Lennon’s literary identity has been intertwined with that of legendary writer Norman Mailer for more than a half century.
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.
