Interviews — Author

Matthew Dicks Interview

Matthew Dicks Interview

Matthew Dicks is the author of Someday Is Today and nine other books. A bestselling novelist, nationally recognized storyteller, and award-winning elementary schoolteacher, he teaches storytelling and communications at universities, corporate workplaces, and community organizations. Dicks has won multiple Moth GrandSLAM story competitions and, together with his wife, created the organization Speak Up to help others share their stories. They also cohost the Speak Up Storytelling podcast.

William KenowerJuly 29, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Matthew Dicks, Stories, ProductivityComment

Nancy Slonim Aronie

Nancy Slonim Aronie

Nancy Slonim Aronie is the author of Writing from the Heart. She has been a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She was recognized for excellence in teaching all three years she taught at Harvard University for Robert Coles. She has joined with physicians and writers from Columbia University's program in narrative medicine to lead workshops using her Writing from the Heart. Her latest book is Memoir as Medicine: The Healing Power of Writing Your messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but Gorgeously Yours) Life Story.

William KenowerJune 1, 2022Writing, Memoir, Nancy Slonim AronieComment

Caitlin Barasch Interview

Caitlin Barasch Interview

Born and raised in New York, Caitlin earned her BA from Colorado College and her MFA from New York University, where she also taught creative writing. Her work has appeared in over a dozen publications, and been nominated for Best Small Fictions.

A former bookseller, Caitlin is currently a creative writing instructor at The Writers Circle.

A Novel Obsession is her debut novel.

William KenowerApril 30, 2022Writing, Caitlin Barasch, Ficiton, William KenowerComment

Natashia Deón

Natashia Deón

Natashia Deón is a two-time NAACP Image Award Nominee, practicing criminal attorney, and college professor at UCLA, Antioch University and Yale summer program. Author of the critically acclaimed novels, THE PERISHING and GRACE, which was named a Best Debut Fiction by The American Library Associations, Black Caucus and was named Best Book by the New York Times, Deón is a Los Angeles native, wife, mother of two.

William KenowerMarch 30, 2022William Kenower, Natasia Deon, Fiction, WritingComment

Bernard MacLaverty

Bernard MacLaverty

Bernard MacLaverty is the author of five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Born in Ireland, he now lives in Glasgow, Scotland. His most recent book is the wonderful short story collection, Blank Pages.

William KenowerFebruary 27, 2022William Kenower, Bernard MacLaverty, Writing Comment

Andrew Lipstein Interview

Andrew Lipstein Interview

Andrew Lipstein is a writer based in Brooklyn. His debut novel Last Resort is out now from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, and is coming March 17 from Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK.

His second novel Flash & Yearn will be published in 2023, also by FSG and W&N.

William KenowerJanuary 31, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Andrew LipsteinComment

Jason Mott

Jason Mott

Jason Mott is a Bestselling author, National Book Award Winner, Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction Winner, Pushcart Prize nominee, and Carnegie Medals For Excellence Longlist nominee, His poetry and fiction has appeared in various literary journals, and Entertainment Weekly listed him as one of their 10 “New Hollywood: Next Wave” people to watch.

William KenowerJanuary 1, 2022Writing, Fiction, William Kenower, Jason MottComment

Sabrina Benaim

Sabrina Benaim

Sabrina Benaim is a poet, performer, and workshop facilitator. She is one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time & is the author of the best-selling collection of poetry, Depression and Other Magic Tricks. Her videos have reached over 100 million people.

William KenowerNovember 30, 2021Sabrina Benaim, Poetry, Writing, Mental Health, William KenowerComment

Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and, most recently, Bottle Grove.

As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award.

Mr. Snicket’s first book for readers of all ages, Poison for Breakfast, was published by Liveright/W.W. Norton.

William KenowerOctober 29, 2021Writing, Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket, Fiction, YA, Young Adult, William KenowerComment

Richard Powers

Richard Powers

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His last novel, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His latest novel is Bewilderment. He lives in the Great Smokey Mountains.

William KenowerSeptember 30, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Richard Powers, FictionComment

Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due

TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator Steven Barnes wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of "The Twilight Zone" on CBS All Access.

William KenowerAugust 30, 2021Comment

Katherine Jegede

Katherine Jegede

Katherine Jegede is a British television presenter and author with a background in science. She was first introduced to metaphysics as a teenager by her mother, a former yoga teacher and education specialist. She developed a penetrating and enduring fondness for the self-empowering teachings of Neville Goddard, and remains just as steadfastly devoted to spreading his message today.

William KenowerJuly 31, 2021 Comment

Chris Power

Chris Power

Chris Power is a British writer and literary critic for The Guardian. He was born in 1975 and grew up in Farnborough, Surrey. He studied English and American literature at Swansea University, graduating in 1998. He has worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director. He is the author of the short story collection Mothers, and the novel The Lonely Man.

William KenowerJune 30, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Chris PowerComment

Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen

Tess’s first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), The Bone Garden (2007), The Keepsake (2008; UK title: Keeping the Dead), Ice Cold (2010; UK title: The Killing Place), The Silent Girl (2011), Last To Die (2012), Die Again ( 2015), Playing With Fire ( 2015), I Know A Secret (2017) and The Shape Of Night (2019). Her books have been published in forty countries, and more than 30 million copies have been sold around the world.

William KenowerMay 29, 2021Comment

Anna Sale

Anna Sale

Anna Sale is the host and managing editor of Death, Sex & Money, WNYC's interview show about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Recently named New York Magazine's number one podcast, the show has also been featured by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, The Guardian, Fast Company, and Real Simple.

William KenowerApril 30, 2021Anna Sale, William Kenower, Writing, Author, ConversationComment

David Laskin

David Laskin

David Laskin is the author of a number of award-winning books of narrative nonfiction, including The Children's Blizzard, The Long Way Home, and The Family. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Seattle Met, the Seattle Times and American Ancestors. He and his wife, retired law professor Kate O'Neill, are the parents of three grown daughters. They live in Shoreline, WA.

William KenowerMarch 29, 2021Writing, William Kenower, David Laskin, FictionComment

Martha Beck

Martha Beck

Martha Beck is a PhD, a Harvard-trained sociologist, world-renowned coach and New York Times bestselling author. She has published nine non-fiction books including Expecting Adam, Leaving the Saints, and Finding Your Own North Star, one novel, Diane, Herself, and more than 200 magazine articles. Her latest book is The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self.

William KenowerMarch 29, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Martha Beck, Spirituality, CoachingComment

Kami Garcia

Kami Garcia

Kami Garcia a #1 New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning, Bram Stoker Award-nominated young adult author of 12 novels and graphic novels, she has been published in 51 countries and 38 languages and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

William KenowerFebruary 26, 2021Writing, Kami Garcia, Young Adult, Graphic Novels, FictionComment

Kristin Hannah Interview

Kristin Hannah Interview

Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, Winter Garden, Night Road, and Firefly Lane.

William KenowerFebruary 2, 2021Writing, Kristin Hannah, Fiction, William Kenower Comments