Talking about my name gave me an entry point to describe my parents and my crippling shyness.
INTERVIEW: Mandi Fugate Sheffel, Author of The Nature of Pain: Roots, Recovery & Redemption Amid the Opioid Crisis
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Emily Rapp Black, Author of I Would Die If I Were You: Notes on Art and Truth-Telling
If you didn’t love, you wouldn’t grieve.
INTERVIEW: Sarah Hoover, Author of The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood
Postpartum depression (PPD) is so stark — I thought my story would be more compelling if there were some entertainment value to it as well.
INTERVIEW: Benjamin Hale, Author of Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks
Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks by Benjamin Hale blends true-crime, memoir, and cultural history.
INTERVIEW: Karen Palmer, Author of She’s Under Here: A Memoir
I spent five years on the book before that essay was published… I’d largely given up.
INTERVIEW: Carol Lin, Author of When News Breaks: A Memoir of Love and War
We speak to CNN anchor Carol Lin about her new book, When News Breaks: A Memoir of Love and War
INTERVIEW: Rachel Weaver, Author of Dizzy: A Memoir
…an alternately excruciating and lyrical memoir of being lost for 18 years in the complexities of a hard to diagnose condition…
INTERVIEW: Jill Christman, Author of The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir
…the book is heartbreaking. But it is also filled with joy, beauty, tension, conflict; it’s a great read.
INTERVIEW: Jacque Gorelick, Author of Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home
I didn’t expect Map of a Heart to be a page turner, like a mystery, but it is.
INTERVIEW: Maddie Ballard, author of Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary
Patchwork is Maddie Ballard’s debut memoir, a collection of essays structured around the making of seventeen garments.
