For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on August 14, 2017. — Miranda K. Pennington is the author of A Girl Walks into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work (Seal Press, 2017). Her work has appeared
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on June 14, 2017. — Mary Mann is the author of Yawn: Adventures in Boredom. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Smithsonian, The New York Times, The Believer, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on November 14, 2016. — Elizabeth Greenwood is the author of Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she teaches creative nonfiction. Greenwood
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 August 13, 2015. — In the fifth of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. Bartels speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson. Margo Jefferson has been a staff writer
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on July 13, 2015. — In the fourth of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. Bartels speaks with Cris Beam. Cris Beam has written two books of nonfiction–Transparent: Love, Family,
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on June 15, 2015. — In the third of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. Bartels speaks with former New Yorker staff writer Lis Harris. Lis Harris was at The
Post originally appeared on Wellesley Underground on June 1, 2015. — In October 2014, E.B. Bartels ‘10 graduated from Columbia University’s School of the Arts with an MFA in creative nonfiction writing. Now she spends most of her time trying to explain to
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on April 28, 2015. — In the first of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. Bartels speaks with acclaimed biographer Patricia O’Toole. Patricia O’Toole is the author of When