Q&A’s are always insightful. A poke around someone’s closet, if you will.
As a writer, I am fascinated by what sparks a person to start (and finish) whatever project they are working on. Over the years in interviewing countless writers and artists, I have discovered that what you have for breakfast, what you listen to while writing, and what you choose to do while procrastinating really does matter in the grand scheme of producing a great or even so-so work of art. (I, for one, like to knead dough.)
Above all, I have reaffirmed my assumption that just because you think you know an author’s body of work through and through, you still might be surprised by a mere glimpse into who they are and the habits they keep.
A selection of past interview clips:
Adult Fiction & Nonfiction
- R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Bridget Quinn (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Jaimal Yogis (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Sarah Valentine (Chicago Tribune)
- David Chariandy (Publishers Weekly)
- Samantha Hunt (Publishers Weekly)
- Charles Dubow (Bookreporter.com)
- Annabel Smith (Bookreporter.com)
- Emily Gray Tedrowe (Bookreporter.com)
- Nadia Hashimi (Bookreporter.com)
- Lily King (Publishers Weekly)
- Diane Chamberlain (Bookreporter.com)
- Barbara Delinsky (Bookreporter.com)
- Roxana Robinson (Publishers Weekly)
- Elizabeth Kelly (Publishers Weekly)
- Elliott Holt (Publishers Weekly)
- Andri Snaer Magnason (Publishers Weekly)
- Vaddey Ratner (Bookreporter.com)
- G. Willow Wilson (Publishers Weekly)
- Elizabeth Letts (Bookreporter.com)
- T. Greenwood (Bookreporter.com)
- Julie Buxbaum (Bookreporter.com)
- Gail Tsukiyama (Bookreporter.com)
- Jonathan Tropper (Bookreporter.com)
- Masha Hamilton (Bookreporter.com)
- Hisham Matar (Bookreporter.com)
- Gayle Brandeis (Bookreporter.com)
- Elisabeth Hyde (Bookreporter.com)
- Elizabeth Gilbert (Bookreporter.com)
Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction
- Sheba Karim (Teenreads.com)
- Elizabeth Scott (Teenreads.com; 2009 & 2008)
- Coe Booth (Teenreads.com)
- Olivia Gardner, Emily & Sarah Buder (Teenreads.com)
- Frances Hardinge (Publishers Weekly)
- E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski & Lauren Myracle (Publishers Weekly)
- Siobhan Vivian (Teenreads.com)
- Lois Lowry (Teenreads.com)
- John Boyne (Teenreads.com)
- R. A. Nelson (Teenreads.com)
- Catherine Stine (Teenreads.com)
Picture Books & Middle-Grade Fiction & Nonfiction
- Oliver Jeffers (Time Out New York Kids)
- Liz Mitchell (Fizz)
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