The Best Ideas Always Come from the Act of Writing
TAKE-5 Interview with Author and Poet Dan Gilmore by Allyson Latta DAN GILMORE has published a novel, A Howl for Mayflower (Imago Press, 2006), and two collections of stories and poems,Season Tickets (Pima Press, 2003), and Love Takes a Bow (Imago Press, 2010). He has received awards from the Raymond Carver Fiction Contest, the Martindale Fiction Contest, and Sandscript. [...]
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
An Inappropriate Interview with Daniel Nester … aka The Memoirist (Part 2)
by Allyson Latta Read Part 1 of my interview with Daniel. AL: You are very candid in writing about your personal life. Does this come naturally, or is it something you have to dig deep to do? DN: Completely naturally. Unlike many people a lot smarter than I, I can’t really imagine other worlds or [...]
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
An Inappropriate (what else?) Interview with Daniel Nester … aka The Memoirist (Part 1)
by Allyson Latta DANIEL NESTER is the author of How to Be Inappropriate, a humorous creative nonfiction collection. Earlier collections, God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen II, explore his obsession with the rock band Queen. His writing appears in Salon.com, The Morning News, McSweeney’s, The Daily Beast, Time Out New York, and [...]
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Camilla Gibb on The Penguin Book of Memoir
Interview by Allyson Latta Photo by George Whiteside The Penguin Book of Memoir, published in April 2011, is a stirring and varied collection of stories by noted Canadian authors including Wayson Choy, Wayne Johnston, Ian Brown, Michael Ondaatje and Thomas King. ”[A]n individual life is virtually never set apart;” writes anthology editor Camilla Gibb, “it unfolds in [...]
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Why Culinary Memoirs Are Worth Reading & Studying: An Interview with Barbara Frey Waxman, PhD (Part 2)
Read Part 1 of my interview with Barbara. AL: In what way do you believe food memoirs can inspire? BFW: Food memoirs might inspire readers to a greater understanding of individuals and families of different cultural backgrounds. These memoirs, which often have elements of the travel narrative in their discussions of food, might encourage readers to take [...]
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Why Culinary Memoirs Are Worth Reading & Studying: An Interview with Barbara Frey Waxman, PhD (Part 1)
“Food memoirists understand that they are writing about everyone’s strongest basic instincts as they tell their own life stories. Food memoirs increasingly command our respect as we respond to their depictions of intense emotions, pleasurable recollections of communal and private food experiences, messages of familial wisdom, and insights into cultures.” —Barbara Frey Waxman AL: Barbara, [...]
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
