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Selected interviews with other writers, poets, and translators
By its nature writing calls for extended solitude. This makes the chance to talk with other writers about their work, and the labyrinths of writing itself, especially valuable. How do they see their readership? Which writers have most influenced their work? How have they handled, say, editing a magazine, teaching, or serving as poet laureate? Switching genres? How do they cope with digital distractions? May you find their answers as fascinating and illuminating as I have. In 2022 look for a Q & A on the fourth Monday of the month.
UPDATE: The end of March 2022 marks the 16th anniversary of this blog, after which point, until further notice, I will be posting approximately two Mondays a month. The Q & A with another writer will continue on the fourth Monday, however every other month.
= MOST RECENT Q & A =
Q & A with Judy Alter
About
The Most Land, the Best Cattle:
The Waggoners of Texas
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= BY AUTHOR, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER =
Alcalá, Kathleen
Q & A with Kathleen Alcalá on Spirits of the Ordinary
May 24, 2021
Alenier, Karren
Q & A with Karren Alenier on her New Book How We Hold On,
the WordWorks, Paul Bowles & More
Alter, Judy
Q & A with Judy Alter About
The Most Land, the Best Cattle: The Waggoners of Texas
Anhalt, Diana
Q & A with Diana Anhalt
on Her Poetry Collection Walking Backward
June 24, 2019
Armitage, Shelley
Q & A with Shelley Armitage,
Author of Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place
August 21, 2016
Auker, Amy Hale
Q & A with Amy Hale Auker,
Author of Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs
November 26, 2018
Barnes, Eric
Q & A with Eric Barnes
on Above the Ether and Turning It All Off
July 22, 2019
Berger, Bruce
Q & A with Bruce Berger on A Desert Harvest
November 25, 2019
Black, Mary S.
Q & A with Mary S. Black
on Her New Book From the Frío to Del Río
May 22, 2017
Brown, Rachel Fulton
Q & A with Rachel Fulton Brown
About The Dragon Common Room
and Aurora Bearialis
July 25, 2022
Campbell, Ellen Prentiss
Q & A with Ellen Prentiss Cambell on Writing Fiction
and Her Latest Collection, Known by Heart
April; 27, 2020
Cassedy, Ellen
Q & A with Ellen Cassedy,
Translator of On the Landing by Yenta Mash,
Master Chronicler of Exile
February 25, 2019
Cassedy, Ellen and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Q & A with Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
on Translating Blume Lempel’s Oedipus in Brooklyn from the Yiddish
January 2, 2018
Cleere, Jan
Q & A with Jan Cleere on Military Wives in Arizona Territory:
A History of Women Who Shaped the Frontier
March 22, 2021
Cool, Paul
Blood Over Salt in Borderland Texas:
Q & A with Paul Cool on Salt Warriors
February 15, 2016
Crimm, Carolina Castillo
Q & A with Carolina Castillo Crimm,
Author of De León: A Tejano Family History
March 28, 2016
Crooker, Barbara
Q & A with Poet Barbara Crooker,
on the Magic of VCCA, Reading, and Some Glad Morning
December 23, 2019
Downey, Lynn
Q & A with Lynn Downey:
“Research Must Serve the Writer, Not the Other Way Around”
July 23, 2018
Dunn, Katherine
Q & A with Katherine Dunn on White Dog
and Writing in the Digital Revolution
July 27, 2020
Eager, Ginger
Q & A with Ginger Eager on Her Debut Novel The Nature of Remains
June 22, 2020
Eggerz, Solveig
Q & A with Solveig Eggerz on Sigga of Reykjavik
February 22, 2021
Garstang, Clifford
Q & A with Clifford Garstang, Author of The Shaman of Turtle Valley
September 23, 2019
Greenwald, Roger
Q & A with Roger Greenwald
on Translating Tarjei Vesaas’s Through Naked Branches
and on Writing and Publishing in the Digital Revolution
October 29, 2018
= see also =
Q & A with Roger Greenwald,
Poet and Literary Translator of Gunnar Harding
July 1, 2015
Hershon, Joanna
Q & A with Joanna Hershon on Her New Novel St. Ivo
March 23, 2020
Heyman, Timothy
Q & A with Timothy Heyman on the Incomparable Legacy
of German-Mexican Novelist B. Traven
October 26, 2020
Hill, Nick W.
Q & A with W. Nick Hill on Sleight Work and Mucho Más
March 25, 2019
Hogan, Michael
Q & A with Michael Hogan about Guns, Grit and Glory:
How the US and Mexico Came Together
to Defeat the Last Empire in the Americas
February 28, 2022
Hutchison, Joseph
Q & A with Joseph Hutchison, Poet Laureate of Colorado, on The World As Is
April 22, 2019
Kachuba, John B.
Q & A with John B. Kachuba, Author of The Savage Apostle
February 3, 2016
Mackey, Mary
Q & A with Mary Mackey
on The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, on Bearing Witness,
and Women Writers’ Archives
November 18, 2018
Orwin, Michele
Q & A with Independent Publisher Michele Orwin,
Founding Editor of Bacon Press Books
April 15, 2015
Peacock, Nancy
Q & A with Nancy Peacock,
on The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson
and Writing in the Digital Whirl
March 26, 2018
Pennock, Matthew
Q & A with Poet Matthew Pennock on The Miracle Machine
November 23, 2020
Pietrzyk, Leslie
Q & A with Leslie Pietrzyk on Writers Groups,
the Siren Song of the Online World and on Writing Silver Girl
February 26, 2018
Polt, Richard
Q & A with Philosopher Richard Polt
on The Typewriter Revolution
November 22, 2021
Rutkowski, Thaddeus
Q & A with Thaddeus Rutkowski on Tricks of Light
January 24, 2022
Santana-Acuña, Álvaro
Q & A with Álvaro Santana-Acuña on Writing
Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written
and Became a Global Classic
December 28, 2020
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
Q & A with Lynne Sharon Schwartz About Crossing Borders
August 23, 2021
Stein, Donna Baier
Q & A with Donna Baier Stein on Scenes from the Heartland and Tiferet
May 27, 2019
Stewart, David O.
Q & A with Biographer David O. Stewart
on the Stunning Fact of George Washington
June 28, 2021
Sullivan, Rosemary
From the Archives:
“A Traveler in Mexico: A Rendezvous with Writer Rosemary Sullivan”
(originally published in Inside Mexico, March 2009)
May 17, 2021
Taber, Sara Mansfield
Q & A with Sara Mansfield Taber,
Author of Chance Particulars: A Writer’s Field Notebook
April 23, 2018
Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron
Q & A with Yermiyahu Ahron Taub,
Author of Prodigal Children in the House of G-d
May 28, 2018
Taylor, Art
Q & A with Art Taylor on The Boy Detective & The Summer of 74
and Other Tales of Suspense
May 25, 2020
Taylor, David A.
Q & A with David A. Taylor
on Cork Wars: Industry and Intrigue in World War II
January 28, 2019
Thompson, Christina
Q & A with Christina Thompson on
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
January 25, 2021
Troncoso, Sergio
Q & A with Sergio Troncoso on
A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son
October 28, 2019
Tweit, Susan J.
Q & A with Susan J. Tweit About Her Memoir
Bless the Birds: Living with Love in a Time of Dying
April 26, 2021
Williams, Sonja D.
Q & A with Sonja D. Williams on Writing
Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom
August 31, 2015
More Q & As to be posted shortly, please check back again soon.
C.M. Mayo’s Conversations with Other Writers
An occasional podcast with writers whom I consider
both fascinating and important. Always crunchy.
C.M. Mayo’s Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project
24 Podcasts apropos of my book in-progress
about Far West Texas. Many are interviews.
21 posted so far.
Interviews with C.M. Mayo about her works
The Poet & the Poem at the Library of Congress;
Occult of Personality; Jeffrey Mishlove’s New Thinking Allowed;
National Public Radio; and many more.