Writers on Craft

Anthony Doerr is the author of four books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome, and, most recently, Memory Wall. Doerr’s short fiction has won four O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Anchor Book of New Americ... Read more

 In this interview, Suzanne LaGrande talks with painter and writer Ted Katz about the characteristics of creative people, the relationship between writing, painting and other forms of community, and the importance of getting lost. Read more

 Suzanne LaGrande interviews Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, The Fifth Book of Peace, and most recently, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. A teacher, as well as a writer, Ms. Kingston taught creative writing at UC Berkeley since 1981. Recently ... Read more

 Suzanne LaGrande  interviews poet David Biespiel.   In addition to founding the Attic Institute, a literary haven and think tank for writers, Mr. Biespiel recently published Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, a book about the creative process.  In this interview, Mr. Biesp... Read more

  Jennifer Egan is the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus and the story collection Emerald City. In 2011, she won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a ... Read more

Host Suzanne LaGrande interviews award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield about the process of writing poetry and what she knows now about writing she didn't know when she first started. Ms. Hirshfield is the author of seven collections of poetry, including After (HarperCollins, ... Read more

Normal 0 0 1 123 706 5 1 867 11.1539 0 0 0   Writers on Craft: Jane Hirshfield Suzanne LaGrande interviews award-winning poet and translator Jane Hirshfield.  Ms. Hirshfield is the author of seven collections of poetry, including After (HarperCollins, 2006); Given... Read more

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 Writers on Craft: Carolyn Conahan Carolyn Conahan writes and illustrates her own stories, (most recently THE BIG WISH, published by Chronicle Books) She also illustrate books written by others, (such as BUBBLE HOMES and FISH FARTS, written by Fiona Bayrock, and THE DISCONT... Read more