Author Interviews

Author Interview

My review of Adiba Nelson's memoir was featured on Tamron Hall!

My interview with Athena Dixon was the Top 5 Most Read!

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From Blog to Book: How the Digital World Can Launch a Writer

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! A Q&A WITH TIA LEVINGS Tia Levings’ memoir, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape From Christian Patriarchy (St. Martin’s Press, August 2024), recounts her escape...

Ain’t that a Mother: A conversation with Adiba Nelson

Adiba Nelson is the author of “Ain’t that a Mother,” a hilarious and vulnerable memoir about Black motherhood, Cerebral Palsy, and surviving intergenerational trauma. Adiba’s memoir is timely and so...

Holy Food by Christina Ward

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Tamara MC, former cult member, interviews Christina Ward about Holy Food: How Cults, Commune, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat, An...

On Nonfiction Book Proposals, Residencies, and Her Essay Collection ‘The Loneliness Files’

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Top 5 Most Read of 2023 Athena Dixon by Dr. Tamara MC When I read the title of Athena Dixon’s latest book, The Loneliness...

Tamara MC In Conversation With Athena Dixon, Author Of the Loneliness Files

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! What does a lifetime of loneliness look like, feel like in the body? Athena Dixon examines this question in her second book, The Loneliness...

Design Your Life Around Writing: An Interview with Guinevere Turner

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Guinevere Turner Tamara MC interviews Guinevere Turner Turner is a screenwriter (American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page), film director, actress, and now author...

TCR Talks with Michelle Dowd, Author of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! By Tamara MC For fans of Educated by Tara Westover, Maid by Stephanie Land, and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Michelle Dowd’s debut coming-of-age memoir Forager: Field Notes for...

Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured, St. Martin’s Press, 2022

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Uncultured, Daniella Mestyanek Young’s powerful debut memoir, is perhaps the next runaway sensation, the succession to Educated (2018) by Tara Westover. Both memoirs are...

Born to Stand Out: Daniella Mestyanek Young Interviewed by Tamara MC

As soon as I heard about Daniella Mestyanek Young's book Uncultured (St. Martin's Press), I knew I had to interview her. Both of us are "cult babies," children born or...

INTERVIEW: Adiba Nelson, Author of Ain’t That a Mother

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Adiba Nelson is the author of Ain’t that a Mother (Blackstone, May 2022) a hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about motherhood, palsy, and...

“Just Show Up”: Adiba Nelson Talks About AIN’T THAT A MOTHER with Tamara MC

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Adiba Nelson’s hilarious, heartbreaking, and bold debut memoir Ain’t that a Mother: Postpartum, Palsy, and Everything in Between (Blackstone, 2022) explores the cavernous lows...

I am an accumulator of lots of cheap beautiful things: Dottie Lasky, poet and teacher, interviewed by Tamara MC

Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Dorothea Lasky is an American poet, born in St. Louis, Missouri on March 27, 1978. She earned her MFA in Poetry from...