Amanda Green reads for free and writes for money in New York City. Her work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Mental Floss, Popular Mechanics, Marie Claire, and various other print and web publications. She procrastinates on Twitter.
Six-time novelist Kate Christensen talks about the shift to memoir, the benefits of blogging, using food as a springboard to tell the story of one's life, and American society's ongoing problem with pressuring women to be thin.
Journalist Jennifer Senior examines how the pitfalls of modern parenthood led her to write a book on the subject, and talks about her fondness towards social science research and why you should choose interview subjects you like.
Journalist Sabine Heinlein, author of Among Murderers: Life After Prison, discusses the challenges ex-cons encounter on their journeys to freedom and the various ways they live with their remorse.