Excerpt: DA: Tell us about your interest with the force of the Western myth. BH: It’s a love-hate relationship. I grew up surrounded by the myth, but uncomfortable with it as well. The West distrusts speech and intellect, other than what’s practical. It leaves action and, hence, violence as the only way to express one’s self and …
Category Archive: Author Interviews
May 20
Q&A With Writer Jane Vandenburgh on W³ Sidecar
Excerpt: Why do you write? I write because I’m curious about all the beauty of this world and want to name it and to draw it toward me. I write to create a sense of palpable intimacy with my readers, by saying, “This is who I am, what I think and feel and value, but …
May 01
Words With Writers interviews Peter Mehlman
Excerpt: “How did your book, Mandela Was Late, come together? It wasn’t originally planned as a book. After Seinfeld and my years at Dreamworks, I felt like going back to writing full sentences and started writing lots of essays, articles, and op-ed pieces for newspapers and magazines. After awhile, it just felt like there were some threads that would …
Apr 30
Peter Mehlman on This American Wife
Listen to the full episode here: thisamericanwifepodcast.com
Apr 24
Author Q&A: Harrison Demchick, “The Listeners”
Q&A Excerpt: Why did you write The Listeners? Originally, I wrote The Listeners for an independent study my senior semester at Oberlin College. Of course, at the time, it wasn’t called The Listeners, and it wasn’t a novel. Ashes, Ashes was a series of interconnected short stories, and I wrote it because the idea of such a story cycle fascinated me. …
Apr 24
Author Q&A: Peter Mehlman, “Mandela was Late”
Q&A Excerpt: Why did you write Mandela was Late? After 12 years of writing almost nothing but scripts, I was dying to get back to writing full sentences. I was originally a journalist at the Washington Post so it was like going home again. Of course, I couldn’t do actual newspaper journalism—they have staffers for that—so I focused …
Apr 16
Author Lane Heymont on Conversations LIVE
Host Cyrus Webb welcomes Lane Heymont, author of The Freedman and the Pharaoh’s Staff, to Conversations LIVE to discuss his journey as a writer, what led him to pen the book and what’s next for him in 2013. Listen to the full interview here: blogtalkradio.com
Apr 16
Interview with Helen Sedwick, Author of Coyote Winds and Giveaway on Manga Maniac Cafe
Excerpt: “[Manga Maniac Cafe] Can you tell us a little about Coyote Winds? [Helen Sedwick] COYOTE WINDS follows the adventures of a boy and his coyote living on the prairie in the years leading up to the Dust Bowl. It explores the American spirit that drew families to the wind-swept frontier and the consequences of …
Mar 22
Peter Mehlman on The Adam Carolla Show
Check out the full podcast recording here: adamcarolla.com