Authors tend to make the same set of mistakes at every stage of the process. It’s human.
INTERVIEW: Allison K Williams, Author of Seven Drafts: How to Self-Edit like a Pro from Blank Page to Book
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Jill Louise Busby, Author of Unfollow Me
Jill Louise Busby (more affectionately known as jillisblack) is a writer and filmmaker critiquing, imploding, and barrel-laughing at our personal and communal hierarchies…
INTERVIEW: Ursula Pike, Author of An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir
When Ursula Pike, a member of the Native American Karuk Tribe, joined the Peace Corps in her twenties, she had high ideals.
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.
