Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
To get ready for our inaugural creative nonfiction conference, HippoCamp, we did Q&As with some of our presenters.
Tasked with answering Salinger’s fan mail, [Rakoff] took it upon herself to humanize him through the responses she wrote to his admirers…
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.
Usually we ask the questions. We inquire the minds of memoirists, authors, agents, publishers, editors and other literary professionals.
I met April Eberhardt this past June while I was at Chautauqua Institution in New York teaching a memoir writing workshop.
