The day I spent at Ivy Lodge, sorting through my parents’ things, being bombarded by memories, jump-started the whole [writing] process.
INTERVIEW: Linda Murphy Marshall, Author of Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
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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.
INTERVIEW: Stephen J. West, Author of Soft-Boiled: An Investigation of Masculinity and The Writer’s Life
At its center, Soft-Boiled follows Stephen J. West as he shadows a private investigator by the name of Frank Streets.
INTERVIEW: Lizz Schumer, Author of Biography of a Body
I was drawn to lyrical, fragmented form of Lizz Schumer’s Biography of a Body …
REVIEW + INTERVIEW: The Daddy Chronicles by Jayne Martin
Like many fatherless daughters, myself included, Jayne Martin wasn’t without a father in the strictest sense of the term.
INTERVIEW: Maud Newton, Author of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and Reconciliation
Maud Newton took a break from her myriad publicity and writing obligations to chat with me, via email…
INTERVIEW: Claudia Putnam, Winner of Split/Lip’s Creative Nonfiction Chapbook Contest
Double Negative by Claudia Putnam is the winner of Split/Lip’s 2021 Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest.
INTERVIEW: Steph Auteri and Ronna Russell: How To Write About Sexual Intimacy Without Making Your Reader Cringe….
I still had questions about how to approach sex in memoir, so I asked them to have a conversation about it with me.
