If the line of work you’ve chosen involves emotional sensitivity, you have to be very careful with yourself.
INTERVIEW: Clancy Martin, Author of How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of a Suicidal Mind
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Meg Kissinger, Author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
No doubt I was drawn to writing about mental illness because of my family circumstances.
INTERVIEW: Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki, Author of Dancing Into the Light: An Arab-American Girlhood in the Middle East
The book only goes to a certain point in my life, to where the lights went out in my life, and then restarted.
INTERVIEW: Mary Helen Stefaniak, Author of The Six-Minute Memoir
I hate to call the essays upbeat, because a lot of them are about serious and sad things. But they still somehow convey that I’m alive and well…
INTERVIEW: Ann Batchelder, Author of Craving Spring
Anyone who has struggled with caring for a child will find a friend in Ann.
REVIEW & INTERVIEW: The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon
We review The Loneliness Files and then speak with author Athena Dixon in this double feature.
INTERVIEW: Lilly Dancyger, Writer, Editor, Teacher
Definitely do not pay someone to edit your first draft! When you finish the first draft of a book, take a little time to bask in that accomplishment…
INTERVIEW: Lamya H, Author of Hijab Butch Blues
In putting…the essays into a book, [I learned] to write time, growth, and (my own) character development.
INTERVIEW: L.L. Kirchner, Author of Blissful Thinking
It’s always there—that striving, that like wanting to be on a quest for self-improvement.
INTERVIEW: Liz Kinchen, Author of Light in Bandaged Places
As a lonely girl coming of age in the 1970s, Liz has every reason to believe her 8th-grade teacher is in love with her.
