Each of these stories braid extensive grit, disempowerment, Black women, erasure, ancestry, and the medical community into a seamless whole.
INTERVIEW: Cassandra Jackson, Author of The Wreck & Jasmine Brown, Author of Twice As Hard
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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.
INTERVIEW: Sarah Fawn Montgomery, author of Halfway From Home
Throughout this nonlinear collection, Montgomery explores how we try to preserve our lives in things—in our homes, our forests, our oceans, our bodies.
INTERVIEW: Sabine Hossenfelder, Author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions
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.
INTERVIEW: Maud Newton, Author of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and Reconciliation
Maud Newton took a break from her myriad publicity and writing obligations to chat with me, via email…
Interview: Mary Laura Philpott, Author of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
I think you have to define what home feels like to you, and then pursue activities that give you that feeling.
INTERVIEW: Galit Atlas, Author of Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
Atlas draws on the emotional power of her patients’ stories and her own experiences to illuminate how inherited family trauma affects our lives.
INTERVIEW: Donald Antrim, Author of ONE FRIDAY IN APRIL: A Story of Suicide and Survival
Interview by Leslie LindsayDonald Antrim is the author of three novels, including Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World and two memoirs, The Afterlife and One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival. He has received awards from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He lives in…
