We spoke with Laraine about speculative memoir, ancestral roots, grief, empathy, structure, and putting it all together on paper.
A Conversation with Laraine Herring, Author of A Constellation of Ghosts
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Jillian Halket, Author of Blade in the Shadow
Halket’s book explains, from a personal perspective, what having OCD is like—debilitating.
INTERVIEW: Clinton Crockett Peters, Author of Mountain Madness
Nothing gets you out of a rut like travelling, I can’t wait to do more.
INTERVIEW: Esteban Rodríguez, Author of Before the Earth Devours Us
After graduation.. I started working at a coffee shop and just spent all my off time at that coffee shop writing poetry.
INTERVIEW: A Conversation with Megan Stielstra
I think our dreams and our fantasies are just as much a part of our memory as any lived experience.
INTERVIEW: Anne Liu Kellor, Author of Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging
“What is the blood of the heart? Can we afford to give it away? Must we feel pain before opening?”
INTERVIEW: Gina Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
There’s no question that economic, intellectual, and cultural class all play major roles in both my book and in my own development.
INTERVIEW: Allison K Williams, Author of Seven Drafts: How to Self-Edit like a Pro from Blank Page to Book
Authors tend to make the same set of mistakes at every stage of the process. It’s human.
INTERVIEW: Jill Louise Busby, Author of Unfollow Me
Jill Louise Busby (more affectionately known as jillisblack) is a writer and filmmaker critiquing, imploding, and barrel-laughing at our personal and communal hierarchies…
INTERVIEW: Ursula Pike, Author of An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir
When Ursula Pike, a member of the Native American Karuk Tribe, joined the Peace Corps in her twenties, she had high ideals.
