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 May 21, 2015. — In the second installment of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. Bartels converses with historian and journalist Andie Tucher. Andie Tucher is the author of
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
For the full interview, see it on Wellesley Underground. Originally published on November 2, 2014. --- As part of Wellesley Underground’s ongoing Wellesley in Art series, WU Assistant Editor, E.B. Bartels ’10, had the chance to interview Maryam Eisler ’89. Eisler was born
As of today, I am no longer the Online Content Editor of Catch & Release, the literary blog of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. Read my farewell post here. Thanks for a great year, everyone.
Judith Thurman spoke about writing nonfiction – specifically biography and literary criticism – at Columbia this past Wednesday, and apparently we were very lucky to hear her since, according to sources, she rarely leaves her house. Ms. Thurman said a
Before I was a nonfiction writer in Columbia’s Graduate Writing Program, I was a student of Russian Language and Literature at Wellesley College. I started taking Russian 101 the fall of my first-year – sick of the Latin I could
First, a confession: I never finished reading Elif Batuman’s essay collection, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The book came out my senior year of undergrad, when I was already drowning in Russian literature