AM: Joseph, I’m thankful for the opportunity to interview you about Coventry, which is set in a prison camp. Like you, I’ve taught in prison. I took a prison literature course in graduate school. I’ve written about Moundsville Penitentiary in West Virginia and about my experience teaching in prison. So I’m particularly pleased to see […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jodie Sinclair, Author of “Love Behind Bars”
June 30, 2020 by 4 Comments
AM: Jodie, so glad to interview you about this important book and subject, and I’m happy that our mutual friend, Joyce Corrington, introduced us. Your new book is Love Behind Bars, bearing the subtitle “The True Story of An American Prisoner’s Wife.” This is a memoir about the criminal justice system and the fight to […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Kathleen M. Rodgers, Author of “The Flying Cutterbucks”
June 4, 2020 by 5 Comments
AM: I hope you are safe and well during this coronavirus pandemic, Kathleen. I just want to give our readers some context for this interview in light of the rapidly evolving circumstances. Right now it’s March 2020, and we’re locked down and confined in the home because of COVID-19. But by the time this interview […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Joanne Kukanza Easley, Author of “Sweet Jane”
March 25, 2020 by Leave a Comment
AM: I’m glad our mutual friend, Johnnie Bernhard, connected us, Joanne. Johnnie has written for Southern Literary Review, and we’ve reviewed her books. How did y’all meet? JKE: Thanks for your time, Allen. I attended a book signing for Johnnie’s second novel How We Came to Be at a local library in the Texas Hill […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Melissa Fischer, Author of “The Advocacy”
February 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment
AM: I’m glad we have this opportunity, Melissa, to talk about your profound new book, The Advocacy, which is set in 1992 in Obuasi, Ghana, a mining town known for its gold. You lived in this town in 1992 and remained there for a few years while you worked for the Peace Corps. How did […]