Tag: interviews
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Interviewed by Jenny Bartoy Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary (Tin Home; 2025) is Maddie Ballard’s debut memoir, a group of essays structured across the making of seventeen clothes. Exact, charming, and lyrical, the guide explores Ballard’s apply of the stitching craft from novice to maven, alongside the ups and downs of her twenty-something life. Ballard touches…
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For years, NFS podcast alum Sam Baron has been utilizing filmmaking as a type of private excavation. Throughout a physique of quick movies he has written, directed, and starred in, Baron has repeatedly returned to a warped semi-autobiographical character named Sam, a model of himself designed to not flatter, however to show. A self-professed “good…
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Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay Like Shigeko Ito, I’m no stranger to childhood trauma. Like Shigeko Ito, I guess you aren’t, both. It appears inescapable, this idea of a ‘excellent childhood.’ Does anybody have such a factor? In her debut memoir, The Pond Past the Forest: Reflecions on Childhood Trauma and Motherhood (She Writes Press; October…
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Interviewed by Hillary Moses Mohaupt Most Individuals have eaten a taco or may, on the very least, determine one on a menu. However not everybody may outline the important thing traits of a taco or hint its journey from its origins to tables around the globe. That’s the place Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado’s Taco (2025),…
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With Sean McNamara’s newest movie, Bau: Artist at Battle, incomes rave evaluations throughout the competition circuit, a lot of the reward has been directed on the attractive and painterly cinematography of DP Shawn Seifert. Recent off initiatives as numerous as Buddy Video games: Spring Awakening and The Unhealthy Seed Returns, Seifert’s work on the historic…
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Interviewed by Morgan Baker In 2013, my division chair at Emerson Faculty requested if I might be considering working with a grad pupil on her memoir. I mentioned sure, instantly. That pupil was Jennifer Crystal, writer of One Tick Stopped the Clock. A few years later, I sat within the viewers at Porter Sq. Books…
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Create an Unforgettable Villain Look, screenwriting is difficult. It might take me perpetually to complete a script and to essentially craft it in a approach that connects with an viewers. So if individuals have “methods” or “shortcuts” to do that stuff, I am all ears. That is ehy I used to be pumped to look…
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Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay In two days, I will probably be on the airport. I assure you, nobody will probably be ‘dressed up’ like cohorts of Marty Ross-Dolen’s grandparents. They have been govt leaders of the household enterprise, Highlights for Youngsters. Again then, in1960, it might have been pastel fits and scarves, tweed jackets, though…
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Interviewed by Amy Fish Bonny Reichert is a Nationwide Journal Award profitable journalist, a chef, and a debut memoirist. Her memoir, Find out how to Share an Egg: A True Story of Starvation, Love and Lots, received the Dave Greber Award for social justice writing in 2022, and was revealed in January by Urge for…
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Interviewed by Michèle Dawson Haber Elissa Altman’s hybrid craft/hybrid memoir, Permission: The New Memoirist and the Braveness to Create, is the e book writers new to memoir have been ready for, even when they don’t but comprehend it. Who owns a shared story and when is permission essential are questions that may immobilize any memoirist,…