Category: Interview

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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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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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In Favor of Not Understanding

An interview with Olga Mikolaivna about her chapbook cities as fathers is a dialogue about the worth and definition of art, of place, of linguistic selfhood.
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Wading Through Research: An Annotated Interview with Vicki Valosik

In this annotated interview, Swimming Pretty author Vicki Valosik talks about how she dove into an ocean of primary sources and kept her head above the water.
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The Power of Crafting Your Own Beginning: A Talk with Debut Author Suzette Mullen

Suzette Mullen shares how she stepped off the straight path of her life and onto the winding one that became her memoir.
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The Journalist in Me: An Annotated Interview with Putsata Reang

By her own admission, Putsata Reang has an “insatiable appetite for research.”
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Bringing the Past Forward

Judy Goldman speaks with Stephanie Clare Smith about her memoir Everywhere the Undrowned and why the past is never behind us.
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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.