Sarah Hughes Interviews Anya Silver Sara Hughes: I am so excited to sit down with you and discuss your second collection of poems. For readers who are unfamiliar with your work, breast cancer is a major topic you write about, so we want to make sure we talk about it, but I’m also really interested […]
“From Proper Nouns to Slant Sonnets: A Conversation with Poet Anya Silver About Place and Time”
Sam Slaughter Interviews Charles Dodd White
SS: Where did the idea for this novel come from? CDW: I was interested in a lot of stuff that depicted wilderness and I was interested in some of the things that William Gay did in his novel Twilight, but kind of refining not just the language but the interaction between the characters and the […]
Philip K. Jason Interviews Amy Hill Hearth
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PJ: Tell me a bit about your personal experiences with Naples. AHH: My husband grew up in Naples. He is a 1968 graduate of Naples Senior High School. In fact, the character “Judd” in my novel is based loosely on my husband, Blair Hearth, when Blair was 12 years old. The lead character, Jackie, was inspired by my late mother-in-law. The […]
Donna Meredith Interviews Pat MacEnulty
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DM: Though you’ve written novels, short stories, plays, and poetry, Wait Until Tomorrow is your first memoir. How did the writing process differ for you? PM: I’ve written a lot of personal essays and poetry, and in many ways this was an extension of those. In fact, I’d had a personal essay published in The Sun Magazine […]
Patricia O’Sullivan Interviews Charity Hawkins
Rhett DeVane Interviews Lynne Bryant, Author of “Alligator Lake”
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RD: You choose to show both the good and bad sides of life in the Deep South. How do you find this balance in your fiction? Do you feel as if your novels make any statements about the South? LB: For every racist or bigoted person I’ve ever encountered, I’ve met an open-minded, loving […]