Interviews

A Few Questions With Evan Saathoff, Author of 'Madea Lives! A Film-by-Film Guide To Loving Tyler Perry'

April 4th, 2014

Evan Saathoff has written about Tyler Perry online for years, often the lone defender of the director's amazingly strange body of work. A couple of years ago he decided to take it upon himself to write the book the world was missing: a book that examined the deeply conflicted themes, delightful weirdness and sometimes shockingly bad execution of Tyler Perry's films. Last month Badass Digest Publishing released Saathoff's Madea Lives!

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Douglas Coupland: Best. Canadian. Ever.

April 3rd, 2014

Header photo via Metro. Body photo © 2013 Byron Dauncey His bestselling novels may have earned him honorary global citizenship, but Douglas Coupland is still a Canadian at heart. In fact, it has been suggested (by me, just now) that maple syrup runs through his veins instead of blood. Is this why his books go so well with pancakes?

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10 Questions with Blud Series Author and LitReactor Instructor Delilah S. Dawson

March 26th, 2014

As a reader, paranormal romance isn't really in my wheelhouse. But I'd been hearing good things about Delilah S. Dawson's work. Plus, she's a hoot on Twitter. So I picked up Wicked As They Come, the first entry in her Blud series, and within the first hundred pages I knew two things: 

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10 Questions with "29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy" Illustrator Lisa Brown

March 10th, 2014

One the best parts of becoming a parent is discovering a whole new world of kid's books—which have evolved in amazing ways since I was a child. I enjoy finding unique books for my daughter as much as—and possibly more than—I enjoy finding them for myself! It could be the instant gratification with the kid's books and the decreased chance that they will sit idle and unread on my bookshelf for years. 

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10 Questions with John Hornor Jacobs

March 5th, 2014

The only novelist currently working that I can compare John Hornor Jacobs to is Joe R. Lansdale. Not so much because of the tone of narrative voice, but because of the diversity of storytelling and sheer production.

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A Few Questions With Tom Hammock and Megan Hutchinson, Creators of Aurora Grimeon

February 20th, 2014

One of the great joys of writing about comic books is that people will ask you what they should read, and then you get to tell them. Every so often, and with increasing frequency, I have been asked to recommend good comics that aren’t about superheroes. There was a time when I would have just stared at these people with naked incomprehension, but eventually I learned that not every comic book is about tightly spandexed superpeople throwing buildings at each other.

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10 Questions with 'Starling' Author Sage Stossel

February 3rd, 2014

Photo: Michael Callaghan / Penguin Sage Stossel seems to have it all: a career with The Atlantic, filling roles as both an editor and cartoonist; a successful graphic novel called Starling (LitReactor's review); access to great bookstores in Harvard Square. Seriously, it leaves many of us drooling in envy

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Ten More Questions with 'The Moment Before' Author, Suzy Vitello

January 21st, 2014

As 2013 came to a close we interviewed in-demand LitReactor instructor, editor, author, and "den mother" of Portland's most distinguished writing group, Suzy Vitello, about her soon to be released YA novel, The Moment Before.

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10 Questions with 'True Detective' Creator Nic Pizzolatto

January 10th, 2014

What more can I say about True Detective that hasn’t already been said? Chances are you’ve read the reviews of the Matthew Mcconaughey/Woody Harrelson fronted HBO crime drama in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, etc. Chances are you’ve seen Mcconaughey making the rounds on the talk show circuit touting the show and its creator, novelist Nic Pizzolatto.

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10 Questions with 'The Moment Before' Author and LitReactor Instructor, Suzy Vitello

December 26th, 2013

Maybe you first saw Suzy Vitello's name in the acknowledgement section of any number of Chuck Palahniuk books. Perhaps you read about the "den mother" of "the hottest writing group in Portland" a few years ago in The Oregonian. Or, maybe you first learned of Suzy here on LitReactor when you took one of her in-demand writing workshops. 

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