We review The Loneliness Files and then speak with author Athena Dixon in this double feature.
REVIEW & INTERVIEW: The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
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.
INTERVIEW: Melanie Brooks, Author of A Hard Silence
I wrote this book almost 20 years after my father’s death.
INTERVIEW: Jane Wong, Author of Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City: A Memoir
We speak to Jane Wong about her approach to memoir as a poet, her deliberate reluctance toward resilience, craft as it relates to violence, and more.
INTERVIEW: Alice Carrière, Author of Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir
Alice and Leslie intergenerational trauma, art and architecture, and the mangled psychiatric system in this author interview.
INTERVIEW: Jennifer Lunden, Author of American Breakdown
In her genre-blending masterpiece, Lunden shares her journey to understand an illness that left her bedridden beginning at age 21.
INTERVIEW: Esther Bergdahl, Independent Fact-Checker
In this interview with Esther Bergdahl, we dive into a topic relevant to most, if not all, creative nonfiction writers: fact-checking.
