{"id":2262,"date":"2011-09-26T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T18:17:34","slug":"cnf-conversations-come-by-for-a-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"CNF Conversations: Send Me Your Titles and Come by for a Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few months ago, I started a feature on the site called CNF Conversations<\/a>, where I interview other writers of creative nonfiction.\u00a0(CNF stands for creative nonfiction<\/a>.) I was looking for a way to do something of substance, to build community, to meet fellow writers, and to learn more about what was happening in the genre.<\/p>\n

Writer interviews seemed like a good way to accomplish all that.<\/p>\n

I also wondered if writers talking to writers might not yield more interesting and in-depth conversations about the creative process, research, and our understanding of what we do when we sit down to write nonfiction.<\/p>\n

I think it has.<\/p>\n

So far, I’ve interviewed Susan Olding about her fantastic book of essays called Pathologies<\/em>.<\/a> Susan was a great first interview: she answered my long and numerous questions with grace and clarity, and weathered the technical bumps of my first attempt.<\/p>\n

Next came conversations with Myrna Kostash<\/a> and Daiva Markelis<\/a>. Each exchange sparked new ideas and questions for me about the first-person voice, about truth in nonfiction, about memory and memorialization, and our responsibilities to those we write about.<\/p>\n

The process has also taught me that I really like the interview as a form in and of itself. Dynamic and economical is how I think of it.<\/p>\n

In a few days I’ll be posting my conversation with Toronto writer Beth Kaplan<\/a>, whose book Finding the Jewish Shakespeare<\/a> <\/em>tells of her archival hunt for traces of her once-famous great-grandfather, the Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin.<\/p>\n

Then comes my conversation with Nancy K. Miller, a giant in the field of feminist (auto)biography, about her new book called What They Saved<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Please come back to read both chats.<\/p>\n

If you have published a recent book of creative nonfiction you’d like me to consider for the CNF Conversations, please drop me a line via the Contact page <\/a>here on the site. <\/strong>Thus far, I’ve only interviewed women, but only by accident. Men are welcome too! (Note the photograph I chose, above, as proof.)<\/p>\n

Spread the word, send me your titles, and keep writing.<\/p>\n

[Photo: Paolo Margari<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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