If you know somebody whose having a problem like this try not to judge. We don’t know the battles they’re fighting. Be kind.

“I really believe that their’s a transformation that can happen when you tell your story.” Keele Burgin comments upon her journey and her memoir – Wholly Unraveled. “Our childhoods don’t have to define us. It’s not easy to walk through the pain, but it”s worth it in the end…It turned the trauma into something more Read More

“It’s really important to have agency and be vulnerable.” Carla Sameth shares insights along with some of her joys and sorrows in her memoir in essays – One day on the gold line. “It’s about the challenges around race and identity and police violence….I kind of wrote the book I wanted to read. I wanted Read More

“It’s really important to have agency and be vulnerable.” Carla Sameth shares insights along with some of her joys and sorrows in her memoir in essays – One day on the gold line. “It’s about the challenges around race and identity and police violence….I kind of wrote the book I wanted to read. I wanted Read More

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

“I think it’s critical just to understand how this business works, what is expected of you as an author and it is so much beyond the writing these days.” Novelist Rea Frey gives advise to new writers and talks about her latest work of domestic suspense – Just because you’re mine. “To be a writer Read More

I’ve learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

“I’ve actually been telling these types of stories my whole career.” Crime fiction mystery novelist Ed Rucker talks about his new book -Justice makes a Killing and how his years as a trial lawyer make his writing true to life. “Trying a case before a jury is much like telling a story. The defense have Read More

It’s a worthy thing to fight for one’s freedom, it is another site finer to fight for another man’s.

“I think a writer to me is somebody who is at large in the world and noticing things with a particular kind of attention.” Rachel Kushner shares her thoughts on writing and on her current novel -The Mars Room. “I was really struck by what happens when the long theatrical process of a trial is Read More