…in “Sleepwalker,” Frazier rips the sad-clown’s mask off of the subject of sleepwalking … she shows us the trauma, which, for Frazier, has been intergenerational.
Interview: A Conversation with Kathleen Frazier, author of Sleepwalker
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
Interview: Kate Walter, author of Looking for a Kiss
Inspiration, lifestyle, escape. Manhattan means all those things and more to author Kate Walter whose debut memoir, Looking for a Kiss, relays her journey about the breakup of her long-time relationship.
Interview: Dan Marshall, author of Home Is Burning
His memoir, Home Is Burning, about [Marshall] and his siblings caring for their dad while he battled it out with Lou Gehrig’s disease and their mom with cancer, is nitty gritty reality at its harshest, complete with poop scenes.
Interview: A Conversation with D Watkins by Rachael Marks
On the overnight train to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, last month, I tormented my tired seatmate by keeping the overhead light on and sifting through a stack of printed pages, scrawling illegible notes in the margins and occasionally snorting at something that I found funny, or horrifying, or both. These were essays written by Baltimorean struggler-turned-literary-supernova, D…
Interview: Kevin Oderman, author of Cannot Stay: Essays on Travel
Kevin Oderman had recently returned from Italy when I interviewed him for Hippocampus – an appropriate segue to discussing his recently released book Cannot Stay: Essays on Travel.
Interview: A Conversation with Lisa Carver, author of 25 Lives
One of the many startling things about writer and performer Lisa Carver is her willingness to speak candidly with total strangers who fixate on her from afar.
Interview: Sarah Einstein, author of Mot: A Memoir
by Lori M. Myers, Senior Interview EditorSeveral years ago, writer Dinty W. Moore offered Sarah Einstein some good advice: Marriage is like writing, he said. You need to show up at your writing desk and at your marriage desk. There’s more to this, which Einstein writes about in her essay “What Therefore Dinty Has Joined…
Interview: Meet a Few HippoCamp 2015 Speakers — A Mash-up Interview
To get ready for our inaugural creative nonfiction conference, HippoCamp, we did Q&As with some of our presenters.
Interview: Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
Tasked with answering Salinger’s fan mail, [Rakoff] took it upon herself to humanize him through the responses she wrote to his admirers…
Interview: Lori A. May, Author of The Write Crowd
Literary citizenship essentially boils down to community engagement—what writers, readers, and other booklovers can do to support the literary community in their own backyards, nationally, and beyond.
