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.
Famous Writing Routines
My parents regularly told stories. My favorite word is “porch”—probably because that’s where my parents told so many of their stories.
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.
Famous Writing Routines
My parents regularly told stories. My favorite word is “porch”—probably because that’s where my parents told so many of their stories.