Straitjackets and Lunch Money by Katya Cengal is a memoir written in two voices: the voice of Katya as a ten-year-old girl hospitalized at the Roth Psychosomatic Unit at Children’s Hospital at Stanford as treatment for self-starvation; and the voice of Katya thirty years later, as a journalist researching her own story from that time to better understand what she went through, and to bring the reader’s attention to other children at risk of going unseen and unheard.
Read MoreCarole Wagener recently self-published her first book, The Hardest Year: A Love Story in Letters During the Vietnam War. Her husband, William, who wrote roughly half of the letters in the book, shares author credit.
Read MorePhotographer Dorka Hegedus and her family are on the road this year, traveling the world. She shared a cache of images from their travels, which I’ve interspersed throughout the following Q&A. Dorka answered my questions in writing.
Read MoreIn The Daughter of Vladimir Lenski: Memoir of a Child Prodigy Violinist, Kathie examines the pieces of her extraordinary life, the smooth pieces and the jagged pieces, the pieces she chose and the pieces forced upon her. Read on for a conversation during which we discuss what Kathie discovered about her writing voice, how documenting her stories helped her process some of the more painful parts of her life, and what working with Kindle Direct Publishing was like for her.
Read MoreAn interview with the memoirist Deborah Lott about her book, Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir.
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