The Writer’s Hot Seat
The Writer's Hot Seat
The Writer’s Hot Seat: Rebecca Makkai
01 April 2016 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Carter Foster Rebecca Makkai is the author of three books. Her first novel, The Borrower, follows a young librarian's journey across the country with a boy who has...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Sonya Huber
16 December 2015 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Tamzin Mitchell To read Sonya Huber’s work is to take a romp through a writer’s mind: researched but imaginative, energetic but informative. I worked in health insurance long...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Nicholson Baker
16 October 2015 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Carter Foster Nicholson Baker has written a good many books. Not a Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates amount of books, but enough that it no longer seems relevant...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Gregory Lawless
09 October 2015 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Kristen Bulger I first met Gregory Lawless back in 2011 in the basement offices of the English Department at Suffolk University in Boston. One Friday afternoon, as everyone...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Matthew Siegel on Teaching, Reading, and Writing His First Book
18 March 2015 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Cynthia Plascencia I had the pleasure of meeting Matthew Siegel in 2008 at the University of Houston when I was an undergraduate and he was an MFA poetry...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Katy Butler on Memoir and Medical Reporting
12 November 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Jesse Duthrie On a Tuesday night last October, I picked Katy Butler and her partner, Brian, up at Logan International Airport. We packed into my car and drove...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Kate Christensen on Food as the Powerful Conduit to Memory
29 April 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Sarah Earle I first discovered Kate Christensen's writing when I absently googled the name of my parents organic farm in Center Conway, NH, and up popped Christensen's food-centered...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Tom Chiarella on Ethics and the Interview
15 April 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Leslie Brown When I called Esquire Magazine’s writer-at-large, Tom Chiarella, on a frigid February afternoon for a Barnstorm interview, he was adding the finishing touches to Esquire’s April 2014 cover...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Robert Vivian on the Dervish Essay
02 April 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Sarah Earle and Alyssa Martino Last week, Barnstorm published Richard Vivian’s nonfiction essay, "Looking, Then Listening." The editors were so intrigued by this interesting, chaotic, and quite lovely...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Wendy MacLeod on Playwrighting, Good Writing, and Teaching That Keeps You Honest
18 March 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Sarah Earle I’ve known Wendy MacLeod since I was little and splashing around in the New Hampshire lake where Wendy also spent summer holidays. She had a beach...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Lisa Romeo on Memoir, Balance, and Karma
04 March 2014 on The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Alyssa Martino Lisa Romeo’s *I Should Be Writing* Boot Camp is one of the main reasons I’m now earning my MFA. I say this because I never would...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Emily Southwood on Porn and Relationships
18 February 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Sarah Earle It was eight a.m. on a gray Tuesday when I caught up with Emily Southwood, author of the memoir, Prude: Lessons I Learned When My Fiancé...
