by Lori M. Myers, Senior Interview EditorSeveral years ago, writer Dinty W. Moore offered Sarah Einstein some good advice: Marriage is like writing, he said. You need to show up at your writing desk and at your marriage desk. There’s more to this, which Einstein writes about in her essay “What Therefore Dinty Has Joined…
I often tell people that if they want to discover what their book is really about, then they should design a cover…
To get ready for our inaugural creative nonfiction conference, HippoCamp, we did Q&As with some of our presenters.
Murphy’s details of farm life paint the reader a vibrant picture, so real that one may question whether or not to buy a goat…
The house had potential, but needed to be gutted to achieve it…
Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir The Light of the World is a story told in pieces—a written collage, or whatever the literary equivalent might be of Russian nesting dolls.
Writer Meghan Daum … suspects her own book will be equally loved and hated. The Unspeakable contains 10 personal essays on a variety of topics from dogs to Joni Mitchell.
Any writer who has been at it for a while knows what throwaways are, although you might have another name for them. Exercises, warm-ups, unfinished pieces, maybe the ever-optimistic “works in progress.”
At an October 2014 concert in Minneapolis, Ryan Adams leaned into the microphone and joked, “I have a case of the Mondays.”
Jason Carney’s debut memoir, Starve the Vulture is a book even the most avid haters of memoir could love.
