Between the Lines
Author Interviews & Profiles

ISSUE 37

• on writing "An Insider's Guide to Jailhouse Cuisine" by Sean Rowe
• on writing "Literary Murder" by Julianna Baggott
• on writing "First Year" by Laura Bramon Good
• on writing "Letter from a Japanese Crematorium" by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
• on writing "An Insider's Guide to Jailhouse Cuisine" by Sean Rowe
• on writing "Grasshopper" by Margaret Conway
• on writing "Community College" by Tim Bascom
• on writing "Cantata 147: The Final Chorale" by Amy Andrews
• on writing "Return to Hayneville" by Gregory Orr

ISSUE 36

• FIRST LEDE, REAL LEAD: Reclamation by Carrie Seymour
• FIRST LEDE, REAL LEAD: Crazy Talk by Laurie Rachkus Uttich
• FIRST LEDE, REAL LEAD: Blood and Treasure by Maria Hummel

ISSUE 34

• from "At the Park," by Kevin Baker
• from "First Base of Last Resort," by Matt Wood
• from "The Bat," by Philip F. Deaver
• from "Pesapallo: Playing at the Edge of the World," by Caitlin Horrocks

ISSUE 33

• from "Missing," by Merilee D. Karr
• from "Non Pro Nobis," by John Bess
• from "Saving My Breath," by Tamara Dean
• from "Watching My Mother Hallucinate," by Diana Hume George

ISSUE 31

•Best of Times, Worst of Times read an excerpt
•Netting the Future read an excerpt
•The Writers in the Silos read an excerpt

ISSUE 29

• Compression
• Immersion
• The Vagaries of Memory

ISSUE 28

• MOUNTAINEER - An interview with Craig Bernier
• GHOST CHILDREN - An interview with D. Winston Brown
• CHRISTMAS ON THE PALISADES - An interview with Adam Gussow
• THEN YOU'LL BE STRAIGHT - An interview with Margaret Price
• THREE MINUTE - An interview with Thomas Wanebo

ISSUE 27

• MY MOTHER'S TOENAILS - An interview with Marcia Aldrich
• GREEN PLASTIC BUCKETS - An interview with Anjana Basu
• SAM AT THE GUN SHOW - An interview with Greg Bottoms
• PLANET UNFLINCHING - An interview with Kelly Cherry
• ALIVE - An interview with Laurie Lynn Drummond
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEX EDUCATION - An interview with Kate Flaherty
• DESSERT - An interview with Matthew Gavin Frank
• PRINCE VALIANT - An interview with Robin Hemley
• MONEY FOR NOTHING - An interview with Kevin Holdsworth
• YOU'LL LOVE THE WAY WE FLY - An interview with Lori Jakiela
• THE UGLY FRIEND - An interview with Lynn Kilpatrick
• WINTER COUNT, 1964 - An interview with Stuart Lishan
• THUMB-SUCKING GIRL - An interview with Sonja Livingston
• DUMBER THAN - An interview with Lee Martin
• DRINK IT - An interview with Patricia Ann McNair
• SINGING LIKE YMA SUMAC - An interview with Cheryl Merrill
• SPLIT - An interview with Brenda Miller
• THE SLASHPILE INVENTORY - An interview with David Oates
• A PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS - An interview with David Shields
• MY MOTHER'S TOUCH - An interview with Alexis Wiggins

ISSUE 26

• THE BRASS RING - An interview with Alle C. Hall
• L'ACHAT - An interview with Laurie Graham
• LOOKING AT AARON - An interview with Hilda Raz

ISSUE 23

• ON TRANSLATION - An interview with Harry Morales
• UNOFFICIAL MEXICO - An interview with Ilan Stavans

ISSUE 22

• ZANE GREY ON A CAROUSEL IN INDIAN TERRITORY - An interview with Diana Hume George
• DROWNING BY NUMBERS - An interview with Erica Crowell
• HOOP SEX - An interview with Theodore Weesner
• INNOCENTS ABROAD, 2002 - An interview with Michael Pearson

ISSUE 20

• SHUNNED - An interview with Meredith Hall

ISSUE 19

• SNAPSHOTS IN BLACK AND WHITE - An interview with Shara McCallum
• RED, WHITE AND SILVER - Discussion questions for the essay by Chavawn Kelley
• WHY I LOVE THE DUMP - For further reading: an essay by Chavawn Kelley
• A MEASURE OF ACCEPTANCE - Discussion questions for the essay by Floyd Skloot
• JOE STOPPED BY - A brief interview with Andrei Codrescu
• JOE STOPPED BY - An in-depth interview with Andrei Codrescu

ISSUE 13

• FACING DOWN THE INSULT -Floyd Skloot, author of "Gray Area: Thinking With a Damaged Brain"
• IN MY BROTHER’S MADNESS - Greg Bottoms, author of "God, Glass, LSD: A Memory"

ISSUE 12

• REMEMBERING LIFE - Norma V. L. Clarke, author of "Post Mortem"
• WHEN MEMORY GIVES THE WRONG ANSWER - Debra Ann Davis, author of "Recollecting"
• EMOTIONAL RELIEF - Ruth Deming, author of "A Sunny Day at the SPCA "
• THE SCENIC APPROACH - Megan Foss, author of "The Monster Between Us"
• SECOND PERSON HONESTY: Writing Through a Filter - Kathryn Hoffman Hughes, author of "Dreamland"
• ESSENTIAL LIES - Beth Kephart, author of "Waiting for the Red Baron"
• WEIRD SCIENCE - Carolyn Nesbitt, author of "The Old Sort: Of Connemaras & Sweet Corn"
• TRANSFORMING TERROR INTO PROSE - Leaf Seligman, author of "Reunion, for Caroline"

ISSUE 11

• EXPLORING INTERIOR SPACES - Geoffrey Alexander, author of "In the Dark"
• RETHINKING LIFE - Luanne Armstrong, author of "With Enough Aspirin: Living For Now in Pain's Company"
• HIDDEN RAZORS - Ruth Gila Berger, author of "Blur (The Interior of a Diagnosis)"
• WHERE MEMORIES LINGER - Gerald Callahan, author of "Chimera"
• BALANCING ACT - Carol Sanford, author of "Astronomy 111: Grief and Memory"
• WHERE POETRY AND SCIENCE UNITE - Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of "Science and Poetry: A View from the Divide" Winner of the Bayer Creative Nonfiction Science Writing Award
• TRANSCENDING THE ORDINARY - Laura S. Distelheim, author of "On a Duet, Sung Long After the Music Has Stopped"
• WHEN THE END INSPIRES THE BEGINNING - Susan Feldman, author of "Power"
• FINDING PASSION IN FEAR AND DESTRUCTION - Philip Gerard, author of "What They Don't Tell You About Hurricanes"
• CREATIVE SCIENCE - James Glanz, author of "The Lyapunov Exponent"
• A FLY ON THE WALL - Mara Gorman, author of "Proud Flesh"
• MIGRAINE - Jean Hanson, author of "The Lightning in My Eyes"
• A TURNING POINT - Simon Pang, author of "A Well-Worn Hanky"
• KNOW THY AUDIENCE - Scott A. Sandford, author of "The Moon on Ice"

ISSUE 10

• FROM FICTION TO NONFICTION - Madison Smartt Bell, author of "Action de Grace"
• MAKING TRANSITIONS - Becky Bradway, author of "The Better Porch"
• FIVE GLORIOUS SENSES - Genevieve Cotter, author of "The Five Glorious Mysteries"
• THE POST-DIDION DILEMMA - John D'Agata, author of "Round Trip"
• WHERE TO BEGIN? - John Hales, author of "Love, War, and Deer Hunting"
• PUBLIC EXPOSURE - Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, author of "Memories Like Splintered Glass"
• THINKING IT THROUGH - Mimi Schwartz, author of "Memoir? Fiction? Where's the Line?"
• RUMINATING ON RUMINANTS - Lucy Wilson Sherman, author of "Learning From Goats"
• SELECTIVE MEMORY - Connie Wieneke, author of "Snakebit"
• MINING AN OBSESSION - S. L. Wisenberg, author of "Margot's Diary"

ISSUE 9

• THE LONE WRITER - Ray Abbott, author of "You Just Want Me to Shoot You?"
• SA'M PÈDI - An interview with Madison Smartt Bell
• RURAL NOBODIES - An interview with Jill Carpenter
• SEA CHANGES: TRAVELING THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY- An interview with A. D. Coleman
• FROM TOUGHNESS TO TENDERNESS - An interview with Brian Doyle, author of "Two on Two"
• LOVE LETTERS - An interview with Megan Foss
• Comments on Lee Gutkind's editorial in Issue 9 - by Megan Foss
• SCATTERING POINT - An interview with Jeff Gundy
• EINSTEIN DIDN'T DREAM OF MY MOTHER - An interview with Priscilla Hodgkins
• MUSSELSHELL- An interview with Robert Coker Johnson
• THE WORLD AS PROP - Michael Pearson, author of "Mr. Personalities: A Conversation with Mark Singer"
• SHITDIGGERS, MUDFLATS, AND THE WORM MEN OF MAINE - An interview with Bill Roorbach

SURVIVNG CRISIS

• CHRISTMAS AT JUVENILE COURT - An interview with Reginald Gibbons
• FAT- An interview with Carol Kloss
• CANNING JARS - An interview with Sandell Morse
• COLD SWEAT - An interview with Scott Murphy
• THE MOTHER, THE DAUGHTER, AND THE HOLY HORSE: A TRILOGY - An interview with Judy Ruiz

ISSUE 8

• AT THE BUZZER - An interview with Michael Berberich
• RADIO WARS, CLOSED DOORS, WHEN YOU'RE OUT - I CHECK YOUR DRAWERS - An interview with Elizabeth Hodges
• THE STORY OF MY FATHER - An interview with Phillip Lopate
• ORIGINAL FRIEND - An interview with Donald Morrill
• AT A TURN IN THE ROAD - An interview with Lucy Wilson Sherman
• VANISH AWAY LIKE SMOKE - An interview with Andy Solomon

ISSUE 7

• FINDERS KEEPERS: THE STORY OF JOEY COYLE - An interview with Mark Bowden
• A JUNE JOURNAL - An interview with David Gessner
• PIERRE MENARD IN NEW ENGLAND - An interview with David Hamilton
• I THOUGHT I HEARD BUDDY BOLDEN SAY - An interview with Brenda Marie Osbey
• KILLING WOLVES - An interview with Sherry Simpson

ISSUE 6

• HOW AND WHY - An interview with Jane Bernstein
• PHILLIP LOPATE: NEW YORK STORYTELLER - An interview with Melinda Corey
• THE ART OF TRANSLATION - An interview with Steven Harvey
• MEANDER - An interview with Mary Paumier Jones
• DARCY FREY: REACHING NEW HEIGHTS - An interview with Tracy Marx
• TWENTY QUESTIONS: A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN MCPHEE - An interview with Michael Pearson
• NONFICTION IN FIRST PERSON, WITHOUT APOLOGY - An interview with Natalia Rachel Singer
• THE MISS DENNIS SCHOOL OF WRITING - An interview with Alice Steinbach
• A CONVERSATION WITH DIANE ACKERMAN - An interview with Kathleen Veslany

ISSUE 5

• HYPOTHETICAL HISTORY OF AN ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH - An interview with A.D. Coleman
• DADDY'S LOSS - An interview with Anne Morgan Gray
• DELIVERYING LILY - An interview with Phillip Lopate
• ROYAL CROWN - An interview with Bret Lott
• SON OF SPOON RIVER - An intervier with Hilary Masters
• NIGHT RHYTHMS - An interview with John T. Price
• OUT OF NOTHING - An interview with Pam Widener

ISSUE 4

• WRITING CAMEOS - Elizabeth Hodges, author of "Death by African Violet"
• FROM DIGRESSION TO DISCOVERY - Jonathan Holden, author of "Imaginary Fathers"
• FINDING THE EXTRAORDINARY IN THE ORDINARY - Samuel F. Pickering, author of "July"
• ON INVENTION - Louis Simpson, author of "The Stone Collector"

ISSUE 3

• A MATTER OF SPACE AND TIME - Jane Bernstein, author of "Taking Care"
• LIMITS AND DEADLINES - Diana Hume George, author of "Blowing in the Wind"
• DESCRIBING EXPERIENCE - Kathryn Rhett, author of "Maternity"
• THE WHITE LIGHT OF THE PAGE - Lauren Slater, author of "Three Spheres"
• PUSHING THE ENVELOPE - Maureen Stanton, author of "Water"

ISSUE 2

• THE WRITING ZONE - Christopher Buckley, author of "Work-Ups: Baseball and the '50s"
• LISTENING FOR A VOICE - Margaret Gibson, author of "Thou Shalt Not Kill"
• ORDINARY PEOPLE WRITING EXTRAORDINARY STORIES - Judith Kitchen, author of "Haworth"
• POETS WRITING PROSE - Donald Morrill, author of "I Give Up Smiling"
• ONE SENTENCE AT A TIME - Donald Morrill, author of “I Give up Smiling”
• PAYING HOMAGE TO A MASTER - Michael Stephens, author of "A Different Kind of Two-fisted, Two-breasted Terror: Seymour Krim and Creative Nonfiction"

ISSUE 1

• PEELING BACK THE SURFACE - Peter Chilson, author of "Bush Taxi Commandos"
• A WRITER'S DISCIPLINE - Mary Paumier Jones, author of "Meander"
• RISK AND INTERPRETATION - Carolyn Kremers, author of "How Tununak Came to Me"
• NONFICTION IN FIRST PERSON, WITHOUT APOLOGY - An interview with Natalia Rachel Singer