When Ursula Pike, a member of the Native American Karuk Tribe, joined the Peace Corps in her twenties, she had high ideals.
INTERVIEW: Ursula Pike, Author of An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Ron Hogan, Author of Our Endless and Proper Work
Ron Hogan offers insight into why writers write, and why it’s worth it to keep writing, whether you ever get published or not.
INTERVIEW: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, author of Tell Me Everything Thing You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
I picked up this book at the recommendation of a friend, and once I started reading it, I ignored all my assigned tasks for the day
INTERVIEW: Patrick Madden, Author of Disparates
It’s both a grand and an insignificant thing to be an essayist, to ‘renew and extend’ the genre’s legacy.
INTERVIEW: Susan Shapiro, Author of The Forgiveness Tour
I pretty much asked everyone I knew, ‘What’s the one apology you deserved but never received?’
INTERVIEW: Shawna Kay Rodenberg, Author of Kin
I didn’t encounter Appalachian literature until I was an adult, and even then it was clear there were so few female Appalachian voices.
INTERVIEW: Kathryn Nuernberger, Author of The Witch of Eye
I just had this profound feeling of wonder reading about these women…
INTERVIEW: Carol Smith, Author of Crossing the River
I didn’t come to journalism through a traditional path—I was a student of the sciences.
INTERVIEW: Anjali Enjeti, Author of Southbound
Enjeti has undertaken this epic task of understanding identity—in a personal and philosophical sense—all while beautifully sewing her story…
INTERVIEW: Nefertiti Austin, Author of Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
Interview by Lara LillibridgeMotherhood So White. That’s what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted to adopt a “crack baby”…
