With more than two decades behind it, Eclectica Magazine was certainly a pioneer in the online magazine space.
Interview: David Ewald, creative nonfiction editor at Eclectia Magazine and its anthology, Best Nonfiction Volume One
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
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.
Interview: Dan Marshall, author of Home Is Burning
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.
Interview: A Conversation with D Watkins by Rachael Marks
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…
Interview: Kevin Oderman, author of Cannot Stay: Essays on Travel
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.
