It’s summer 2016 when Barrie Miskin decides to go off her low-dose antidepressant in order to conceive
INTERVIEW: Barrie Miskin, Author of Hell Gate Bridge
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INTERVIEW: Suzanne Scanlon, Author of Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
The act of writing helps, being a writer helps…. But that doesn’t mean it ended my grief.
INTERVIEW: Susannah Kennedy, Author of Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir
One of the reasons I’m so drawn to memoir is I learn so much by reading the journeys of others.
INTERVIEW: Susan Kiyo Ito, Author of I Would Meet You Anywhere
In a boundary-breaking memoir Susan Kiyo Ito unveils the truth of her origins.
INTERVIEW: Jami Nakamura Lin, Author of The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir
In The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir, Jami Nakamura Lin pushes the boundaries of craft as she struggles with the loss of her father.
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: Cassandra Jackson, Author of The Wreck & Jasmine Brown, Author of Twice As Hard
Each of these stories braid extensive grit, disempowerment, Black women, erasure, ancestry, and the medical community into a seamless whole.
INTERVIEW: Tanya Frank, Author of Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness & Motherhood
Zig-Zag Boy by Tanya Frank is a collective book, giving voice to all families who have experienced this often terrifying and jarring experience.
INTERVIEW: Gayle Brandeis, Author of Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, & Loss
Leslie Lindsay speaks to author Gayle Brandeis about her latest book, Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body & Loss.
INTERVIEW: Juliet Patterson, Author of SINKHOLE: A Natural History of a Suicide
Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide by Juliet Patterson is part-investigation, part- memoir, part-ecological, and pure poetry.
