Form has to follow function. A braided narrative isn’t the best approach to every story.
Interview with Alden Jones, Author of The Wanting Was a Wilderness
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Rebecca McClanahan, Author of In The Key of New York City
We can express emotions in many ways, but as writers, we’re sentenced to the sentence. And to words.
INTERVIEW: Athena Dixon, Author of The incredible Shrinking Woman
There’s going to be somebody like you out there who needs to hear your voice.
INTERVIEW: Debora Harding, Author of Dancing With the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime
[My dad] had a charming way of denying frightful events, of bringing humor and lightness to our childhood.
INTERVIEW: Robyn Ryle, Author of Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy
“If you’re born into contemporary American culture, though it’s changing a lot, the idea that there are only two genders is very much there.”
INTERVIEW: Cija Jefferson, Author of Sonic Memories and Other Essays
“I remember my Dad telling my sister and me, ‘You are a double minority, black and a woman, you gotta be twice as good to get half as much.’”
INTERVIEW: Miah Jeffra, Author of The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!
…what is truthful is that the way that you remember it is how you have been constructed, no matter how minutely or profound that was.
INTERVIEW: Melissa Valentine, Author of The Names of All the Flowers
This book saw me through active grief. It saw me through figuring out how to write. It saw me through finding my way into my story.
INTERVIEW: Davon Loeb, Author of The In-Betweens
As a poetry editor, one thing that I prefer is narrative poetry—don’t explain; show it.
INTERVIEW: Jason B. Rosenthal, Author of My Wife Said You Wanted to Marry Me: A Memoir
In March 2017, Jason’s wife, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, penned her final goodbye – an essay called “You May Want to Marry my Husband”.
