Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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A Conversation with DeWitt Henry

INTERVIEW

Tepper talks with Ploughshares editor and writer DeWitt Henry about memoir-writing, his family history, and the impact of war.

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Curse of the Douchey Author Photo

RANTS

David S. Wills gets insulted for having a stupid author photo, then defends himself by arguing that ALL authors look like douches.

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21 Questions with Christopher Kennedy

A&C INTERVIEWS

Please explain what just happened.

I was just told to “Keep it secret, keep it safe!”

What is your earliest memory?

Tripping over the hose and breaking my collarbone for the first of four times.

If you weren’t a musician / writer, what other profession would you choose?

I’d make a great king.

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The Merry-Go-Round is Beginning to Taunt Me: An Exchange Between Cris Mazza and Davis Schneiderman

ESSAY

Davis Schneiderman and Cris Mazza discuss book publicity, the perils of the new media universe, leprechauns, and dogs.

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Someday I’m Gonna Be A Dead White Guy

3G1B CONVERSATIONS

That’s the thing about covers. Cliches aside, everyone is affected by a good bookcover. I’ll wager everyone reading this could list at least a handful of books they purchased exclusively for the cover, not knowing a thing about it. I’ll bet even marketers do that! So why would you publish a book that you are supposedly proud of, that is a unique product, that you want to find its audience and give it a cover that already dots the shelves, or that doesn’t reflect that story’s unique proposition. If you think it’s just like a thousand other books out there already, then why bother? You can probably be as inspired designing and marketing cereal boxes or baked beans.

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21 Questions with Carson Kressley

A&C INTERVIEWS

Please explain what just happened.

I have no idea either! I have spent my entire life feeling like I missed the first day of school. I’m always wondering what I have missed.

What is your earliest memory?

Crying while boarding the school bus on my first day of school. I was wearing a double knit polyester leisure shoot. Hence the tears.

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Haunting Bombay: An Excerpt

NOVEL

An excerpt from Shilpa Agarwal’s acclaimed novel, set in 1960’s India.

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Lisa Glatt: The TNB Self-Interview

FICTION SELF-INTERVIEWS

Do you think interviewing yourself is like talking to yourself? The way your Grandma Stanton mumbled in the kitchen when she made English tea and challah toast?

Maybe.

What did you do today?

I got a mammogram, which is always a traumatic (but not physically painful) experience. Did a lot of waiting before the mammogram with about ten women, most of them older than me, all of us in white robes that said “Memorial Breast Center” in yellow stitching in the corners above our breasts (of course), all of us sitting in a little room with magazines pretending not to see each other. I wasn’t nuts about the silence and had to say hello and ask questions and comment on the place and suggest to the other women that things would be nicer if they stocked the room with good wines and fancy chocolate instead of People magazine and Modern Bride. Modern Bride? The average age in the room was sixty-five, I thought. Eventually the women did start talking to each other and by the time my name was called, one woman was actually crying, talking about her son’s depression, and I thought that crying and having a discussion, no matter how sad, was better than sitting there in stony silence.

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Attica Locke

LITPARK INTERVIEWS

After years of writing screenplays of other people’s ideas, and screenplays that never became movies, Attica Locke wrote a novel that finally revealed her own voice and allowed her to explore the dreams and disillusions of political activists.

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