For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on February 14, 2018. (Happy Valentine's Day!) — Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously, and Claire of
I'm posting the March installment of Non-Fiction by Non-Men a little late - sorry! I was traveling in Japan when it was published. This seems fitting, though, as one of MariNaomi's books, Turning Japanese, is all about her experience learning Japanese and traveling
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on February 6, 2017. — Amani Al-Khatahtbeh is the founder of MuslimGirl.com, an online magazine and community for Muslim women. Her memoir, Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age, was published by Simon & Schuster
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on October 19, 2016. — Suki Kim is an investigative journalist, novelist, and the only writer ever to live undercover in North Korea. In 2011, Kim Jong Il’s final year, Kim spent six months
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on June 13, 2016. — Lily Brooks-Dalton is the author of Motorcycles I’ve Loved: A Memoir(Riverhead Books, 2015), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. In addition to her memoir, Brooks-Dalton
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.
Believe it or not, it's already been three months since the last check-in on my 2015 reading challenge, and I must admit that I'm struggling a little over here. As you can see, I'm a few days late posting this––both
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on September 14, 2015. — In the sixth of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. Bartels speaks with bestselling memoirist and opinion writer Jennifer Finney Boylan. Jennifer Finney Boylan’s memoir, She’s
Today was a great day for women who write nonfiction. Not only did Fiction Advocate publish the September edition of Non-Fiction by Non-Men today, featuring my interview with Jennifer Finney Boylan (more on that later), but I also heard Mary Karr speak about her new book The Art of