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Between the Lines
Author Interviews & Profiles


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