Any writer of nonfiction or memoir owes a debt to Mailer, who pioneered techniques that came to define nonfiction, memoir and the New Journalism.
INTERVIEW: J. Michael Lennon, editor of Norman Mailer: The Sixties
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
Interview: A Q&A With Brian Evenson—author What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen books included Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Bookmarked.
Interview: Writer and Teacher Vicki Mayk to Host “Healing Through Our Stories” Retreat in June
By day, Vicki Mayk works in marketing and communications in higher education where, among other duties, she edits a university alumni magazine. Also by day—and sometimes by night—she teaches writing on campus and within the community. Part of her community-based writing efforts include working with the bereaved at St. Luke’s Hospice in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She’s…
Interview: David Ewald, creative nonfiction editor at Eclectia Magazine and its anthology, Best Nonfiction Volume One
With more than two decades behind it, Eclectica Magazine was certainly a pioneer in the online magazine space.
Interview: Melanie Brooks, author of Writing Hard Stories
While a student in the Stonecoast MFA program, Melanie Brooks set out to write a memoir—a story that, once pen was put to paper, stirred up emotions, emotions she hadn’t realized would still be so painful.
Interview: A HippoCamp 2016 Mash-up – Speakers Speak Up About Upcoming Nonfiction Writing Conference
HippoCamp, Hippocampus Magazine’s three-day creative nonfiction conference, is next month. Over on the conference website we’ve been posting Q&As with presenters. For this month’s magazine interview, we decided to share a mash-up of those “speaker and session preview” conversations.
Interview: Jamie Brickhouse, author of Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother
Jamie, a native of Beaumont, Texas, spent nearly two decades working on the other side of the business—as a book publicist for major houses and now as a speaker’s agent—before becoming an author himself.
REEL LIFE: Interview – Al Monelli of Lancaster Trilogy Always Had ‘Great Expectations’ for Storytelling
When his English teacher assigned a book report on the Dickens’ novel, he asked if he could produce a movie instead.
Interview: A Conversation with Kathleen Frazier, author of Sleepwalker
…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: 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.
