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5 Responses to “Author Interviews”

1. Rori Says:
   August 31st, 2007 at 9:30 pm

   I love you Judi Moreo interview! Fantastic job!

2. JM Says:
   August 31st, 2007 at 9:32 pm

   Thank you. It was a pleasure interviewing her, and I’m glad you enjoyed it.

3. Richard Says:
   August 31st, 2007 at 11:49 pm

   I think your interviews are too structured. Granted that’s possibly for the convenience of the author’s more than anything. But I think they’d be more enjoyable and more artistic (yes, I think interviews can be art), if your interviews were more loose, just allow the author to just ramble. It’s just more interesting if it sounds like the interviewer and interviewee are having fun and enjoying themselves and just shooting the breeze with each other. That’s kind of how the interviews in The Paris Review are structured. Granted I’ve only read one, but that’s how I hear their interviews are conducted. Even if the interview strays off topic. Who cares, just as long as it’s interesting.

   Granted there are an innumerable amount of reasons why this may not be possible. But it’s definitely something that I think will make me more eager to read your interviews.

4. Richard Says:
   August 31st, 2007 at 11:51 pm

   To be honest, I’d rather hear writer’s talk about anything but writing. I think that tells me more about how they write and why they write than what they actually say about writing.

5. JM Says:
   September 1st, 2007 at 5:43 am

   I understand what you’re saying and have always found interviews that drift to, generally, be more enjoyable. I wish I could do that, but there are, as you say, numerous reasons why I personally can’t - not the least of which being the Australian/US time difference on a lot of the interviews.

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