JEANNIE VANASCO
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SELECTED INTERVIEWS ABOUT THE GLASS EYE
Fanzine  |  with Michael Kimball
When the book existed only inside my head, it was the book I promised him. The moment I started writing the first sentence, the promise was broken.

Bustle  |  with E. Ce Miller
As a reader, I’m not interested in a memoir’s synopsis. I’m interested in its author’s exploration of thoughts and feelings, thoughts about feelings, and feelings about thoughts. To me, that’s what makes a memoir feel alive.

Bookselling This Week  |  with Jamie Thomas
The conventions that we break — in writing and in life — reveal the texture of our feelings and thoughts.

TinHouse.com  |  with Masie Cochran
I’m someone who will change her clothes in front of an open window. Not because I want people to see me naked. My God, no. I do it because I assume no one is looking. And it was that sort of thinking that made drafting the memoir possible. 

Columbia Journal  |  with Daphne Palasi Andreades
There’s a difference between being self-aware and being self-absorbed. I didn’t want my experience of loss to be the only experience that I explored.

The Rumpus  |  with Kelsey Osgood
Manic, I imposed meaning where it rarely existed.

The Arkansas International  |  with Elizabeth DeMeo
I like when a memoirist begins a sentence with: I can’t remember if.

The Writer  |  with Gabriel Packard
An important lesson – about as important, I think, as having a routine; let yourself write badly.
  • about
  • Things We Didn't Talk About
    • Praise for Things We Didn't Talk About
    • Interviews about Things We Didn't Talk About
    • Excerpt - Things We Didn't Talk About
  • The Glass Eye
    • Praise for The Glass Eye
    • Interviews About The Glass Eye
    • Excerpt - The Glass Eye
  • other work
  • events
  • contact