INTERVIEW: Alice Carrière, Author of Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir September 10, 2023 Alice and Leslie intergenerational trauma, art and architecture, and the mangled psychiatric system in this author interview. Read the full story →
INTERVIEW: Cassandra Jackson, Author of The Wreck & Jasmine Brown, Author of Twice As Hard May 16, 2023 Each of these stories braid extensive grit, disempowerment, Black women, erasure, ancestry, and the medical community into a seamless whole. Read the full story →
INTERVIEW: Tanya Frank, Author of Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness & Motherhood February 15, 2023 Zig-Zag Boy by Tanya Frank is a collective book, giving voice to all families who have experienced this often terrifying and jarring experience. Read the full story →
INTERVIEW: Gayle Brandeis, Author of Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, & Loss January 17, 2023 Leslie Lindsay speaks to author Gayle Brandeis about her latest book, Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body & Loss. Read the full story →
INTERVIEW: Juliet Patterson, Author of SINKHOLE: A Natural History of a Suicide December 19, 2022 Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide by Juliet Patterson is part-investigation, part- memoir, part-ecological, and pure poetry. Read the full story →
INTERVIEW: Sarah Fawn Montgomery, author of Halfway From Home November 13, 2022 Throughout this nonlinear collection, Montgomery explores how we try to preserve our lives in things—in our homes, our forests, our oceans, our bodies. Read the full story →
INTERVIEW: Sabine Hossenfelder, Author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions September 7, 2022 I went into physics because it struck me as the best way to understand how the universe works, and that includes some aspects of our existence. Read the full story →
INTERVIEW: Maud Newton, Author of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and Reconciliation May 9, 2022 Maud Newton took a break from her myriad publicity and writing obligations to chat with me, via email… Read the full story →
Interview: Mary Laura Philpott, Author of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives March 7, 2022 I think you have to define what home feels like to you, and then pursue activities that give you that feeling. Read the full story →
INTERVIEW: Galit Atlas, Author of Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma February 7, 2022 Atlas draws on the emotional power of her patients’ stories and her own experiences to illuminate how inherited family trauma affects our lives. Read the full story →