For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on April 13, 2016. — Meghan Daum has written two popular essay collections, My Misspent Youth (Open City Books, 2001) and The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion (FSG, 2014), which won the 2015
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on March 16, 2016. — Lia Purpura is a poet, essayist, and translator from Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of four collections of poems–– King Baby (Alice James Books, 2008), Stone Sky
For the full essay, see it on The Rumpus. Originally published on February 18, 2016. — A friend posted a picture of me from her wedding, and all I can see is my stomach. I’m with friends, wearing goofy hats for the photo booth,
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on February 15, 2016. — Susan Southard’s first book, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, was a New York Times editors’ choice and named a best book of the year by the Washington Post,
I wrote about my goal to read 50 books by women in 2015 for Wellesley Underground! Not only did I write about my experience, but I also some how managed to list my TOP TWELVE FAVORITE BOOKS that I read last year. Need some reading
And so it is 2016, and time to tell you about the 4th and final quarter of my 2015 reading challenge and how the whole thing went. If you've been following me on GoodReads, you already know: I didn't make it.
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on December 14, 2015. — In the ninth of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. Bartels speaks with historian and writer Nancy Hewitt. Nancy Hewitt has authored, co-authored, and edited
For the full essay, see it on The Rumpus. Originally published on November 5, 2015. — Save three stray years, I have lived in Massachusetts my entire life. It’s a small state, and running into people I know is rarely a surprise. Sitting on
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on November 4, 2015. — In the eighth of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. Bartels chats with prolific author Patricia Beard. Patricia Beard has written nine books of nonfiction,
In all the insanity of the past two weeks, I completely neglected to mention that the October edition of Non-Fiction by Non-Men went up ten days ago! For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on October 14, 2015. -- In the