The Writer’s Hot Seat
The Writer's Hot Seat
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...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Rolf Potts on Travel Writing
04 February 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Michael Toner In this segment of The Writer's Hot Seat, we have an interview with an author I have read over and over again while drifting across the...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Joni Tevis on the Lyric Essay
21 January 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatThis interview is the first in a new Barnstorm blog column called, “The Writer’s Hot Seat,” in which we pick the brains of writers we admire. Interview by Alyssa Martino...
