The thirteenth Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! (And my last for a little while as I go on "interview maternity leave.") Rebecca Renner is the author of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades, which was named a most anticipated nonfiction book of
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on March 10, 2021. — Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart and the essay collections Abandon Me and Girlhood. She also has a craft book forthcoming from Catapult in 2022. Febos was the inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on February 16, 2021. — Koa Beck is the author of White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind . Beck is the former editor-in-chief of Jezebel and co-host of “The #MeToo Memos” on WNYC’s
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on September 15, 2020. — Sara Faith Alterman is the author of Let’s Never Talk About This Again: A Memoir. She’s written for The New York Times, McSweeney’s, and The Boston Globe, as well as the anthologies Modern Loss: Candid Conversations About
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on November 12, 2019. — Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the
Shout out and major THANK YOU to Erin Greene who made this interview possible thanks to her CITYterm connections! For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on May 14, 2019. — Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in
Happy Valentine's Day! Celebrate your *~*love*~* of nonfiction today with the second Non-Fiction by Non-Men interview of 2019! This one also features one of my former GrubStreet students, Céillie Clark-Keane, as a guest interviewer, in conversation with Alanna Okun! Enjoy. For the full interview, see
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on September 10, 2018. — Nicole Chung is the author of All You Can Ever Know (available from Catapult on October 2, 2018), a memoir about her experience as a Korean adoptee raised by white parents. Her
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on August 13, 2018. — Morgan Jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing. She graduated from Princeton University with an AB in Comparative Literature, specializing in nineteenth-century Russian literature and
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on September 13, 2017. — Samantha Irby is the writer behind the blog bitches gotta eat and the author of Meaty: Essays (Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2013), New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep (Vintage, 2017), and We Are