Category: In Conversation

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Craft in Conversation: Talking Femininity, Fragments, Frankness, and Form with Amy Berkowitz

Amy Berkowitz asks us what it means to be poetic. In her memoir Tender Points (Nightboat Books, 2019), they take the reader through a series..
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Craft in Conversation: Melanie Hall Interviews Sarah Minor

Sarah Minor is breaking boundaries on the essay form. Her debut collection, Bright Archive, combines research, memory, interview, and unconventional visual elements in a wonderful..
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Writing From Within the Experience: An Annotated Interview with Jeannie Vanasco

Jeannie Vanasco is no stranger to writing her way through the hardest of material. Her debut memoir, The Glass Eye (Tin House, 2017), was a..
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Body/Work: A Correspondence

Since we’d never met in person, I had to picture Richard taking notes, making observations as he walked around Brooklyn’s Cortelyou Road or maybe further..
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How To Make Narrative Nonfiction Span Centuries 

Laura Tillman speaks with Nick Tabor about his debut narrative nonfiction book "Africatown," which spans centuries yet feels effortless in its telling.
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Transparency in Journalism Through the “I”

Laura Jane Willoughby talks with author Ted Conover about what it means to be an immersion reporter.
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How (Not) To Define A Lyric Essay

Heidi Czerwiec and Erica Trabold explore the function of lyric essays, and how lyric essay collections are illuminating this style of nonfiction writing.
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A Glimmer of Hope Among the Ruins

Shannon Tsonis talks with Kristine Ervin and reflects on her new book, Rabbit Heart, a memoir not unlike her own.
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How Loneliness Manifests

Cija Jefferson speaks with Athena Dixon about her new book of essays, The Loneliness Files, and what it means to find connections inside and outside of writing.
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You have to do what works for you.

A conversation with Sufiya Abdur-Rahman about her deeply reported and deeply personal memoir, Heir to the Crescent Moon.