Writer's Digest • 29th March 2019

N.K. Jemisin on Creating New Worlds and Playing with Imagination

N.K. Jemisin wants to be a “storyteller of a writer.” It’s an ambition she claims not to have mastered, but many who have lost themselves in Jemisin’s tales of captive gods and stone eaters are sure to disagree.

Rebellious Magazine • 5th November 2018

Author Linda Kay Klein on the Lasting Impact of the Purity Movement

WritersDigest.com • 19th June 2018

Jacqueline Woodson: Confronting Controversial Subjects & Writing Across Age Categories

In this exclusive extended interview with National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson, the Newberry Honored author talks character building, diversity movements, and the real-world importance of books for kids and teens.

Rebellious Magazine • 27th February 2018

Interview with Author Michelle Oberman: Abortion Law and the Cost of Motherhood

Rebellious Magazine • 13th February 2018

Morgan Jerkins on Sex, Motherhood and the Black Female Imaginary

Morgan's This Will Be My Undoing has been named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Esquire, Elle, Bitch, Electric Literature … the list goes on. I asked her a few questions about her book.

Rebellious Magazine • 18th December 2017

Samantha Irby on Married Life, Being Rebellious & Posthumous Love/Hate for Helen the Cat

Interview with Irby on her latest book of essays

Rebellious Magazine • 7th December 2017

‘Lolas’ House’ Tells Untold Stories of Filipino Comfort Women

The untold stories of Filipino victims of WWII

Rebellious Magazine • 4th December 2017

Interview: ‘Unscrewed’ Author Jaclyn Friedman on Women’s Sexual Power

Jaclyn Friedman believes we’re in an “era of fauxpowerment, a time when shiny pictures of individual women wielding some symbol of sexual power are used to distract us from the still mostly retrograde and misogynist status quo.” This is the subject of her newest book, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All.

Rebellious Magazine • 9th October 2017

‘Lady Killers’: Chicago Author Explores Lives of Female Serial Murderers

Interview with the author of Lady Killers on how the stereotypes of women skews our vision of those who are capable of mass murder

Rebellious Magazine • 21st September 2017

Questions of Sex, Queerness & Big Pharma Make ‘Autonomous’ a Fascinating Read

Rebellious Magazine • 17th July 2017

‘Ars Botanica: A Field Guide’ to Nature, Love & Loss

Tim Taranto’s “Ars Botanica: A Field Guide” is an epistolary memoir using letters written to his unborn child. The book tells the story of Taranto’s relationship with his lover, the blossoming and loss of their relationship, alongside the loss of their aborted child.

Rebellious Magazine • 21st June 2017

Amelia Gray’s ‘Isadora’ Explores Grief and Genius

When a novel opens with the death of children, grief is—by necessity—a primary theme. One expects this kind of loss to lead to potent emotions, major questioning and intense actions, all of which are justifiable and sacrosanct. Who would dare judge the actions and emotions of a mourning parent?

Rebellious Magazine • 22nd May 2017

Chatting with Jessamyn Stanley about Body Positivity, Yoga and Capitalism

Body positivity advocate and yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley believes that yoga is for everyone. Her new book, Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get on the Mat, Love Your Body, is a mix of memoir and a guide to inclusive yoga.

Rebellious Magazine • 13th May 2017

'Abandon Me: Memoirs' by Melissa Febos Beautifully Explores Mad Love & Desire

Rebellious Magazine • 23rd April 2017

The Role of Mercy Today: A Reflection on ‘Hallelujah Anyway’ by Anne Lamott

Rebellious Magazine • 3rd April 2017

‘Pirate Women’ is an Empowering Look at Badass Women Throughout History

Rebellious Magazine • 28th February 2017

‘Here We Are’: The Feminist Book You Wish You’d Had Growing Up

“Here We Are: 44 Voices Write, Draw, and Speak about Feminism for the Real World” is the book you wish you’d had as a teenager. What questions were you asking? What questions did you not even realize you had? Do I need a nose job? Does my voice matter? “Here We Are” offers feminist perspectives on common issues teenagers face and don’t always get straightforward answers on.

The Christian Century • 31st January 2017

Living in the gray

Hospice chaplain Kerry Egan asks, “What could hope possibly look like to someone who is dying?” She then answers, “It can mean anything. It could look like everything.” In Egan’s narrative, hope takes many shapes: stories that matter enough to be retold after the storyteller’s death, lives that have meaning and purpose even in suffering, and redemption from shame and regrets. Amid anecdotes and insights from 15 years of ministry with the dying, Egan recounts multiple scenarios in which people a

Sacred and Subversive • 9th December 2016

Q&A with Radical Dharma co-author Lama Rod Owens

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation is a conversation about, a call to, and a roadmap toward liberation. This is personal and societal liberation — from trauma, from the desire to control each other, from toxic societal standards. Liberation toward authenticity and love.  Personal and societal liberation must go together.

Rebellious Magazine • 2nd December 2016

Laura Jane Grace's Memoir 'Tranny' Depicts How Pain Becomes Art

Laura Jane Grace, frontwoman of the punk band Against Me!, publicly came out as transgender in 2012. Most of her new memoir, "Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout," chronicles her life leading up to her transition. Grace will be reading from her book on Friday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. at the Wilson Abbey. The book depicts how her journey into the punk scene was influenced by her gender dysphoria. For more than 30 years, she says she kept it a secret from everyone, and it