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Liz Button

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Liz Button is a marketing copywriter in Boulder, Colorado. While working as senior writer for the American Booksellers Association, she interviewed authors such as Michael Chabon, Ottessa Moshfegh, Colson Whitehead, and Tara Westover. She has also worked as a reporter for several newspapers in Westchester County, New York.
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Candy from Strangers: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan

  • Liz Button
  • April 6, 2022
We can try to perform our inner lives, but we can't actually reveal them. We can create a simulacrum, which is so much of what I see on social media, and that simulacrum is entertainment. It’s exciting because we all love the whiff of authenticity, and the more mediated our culture feels, the more we crave it, but we can't actually give it away. We cannot actually break through the barrier of our individual aloneness.
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Looking for Trouble: A Conversation with Maud Newton

  • Liz Button
  • March 30, 2022
Are these stories true? Did my great grandfather really kill someone with a hay hook? Was my other great grandfather really a communist?
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Facing Her Truth: A Conversation with Ariel Henley

  • Liz Button
  • November 3, 2021
Ariel Henley discusses her debut memoir, A FACE FOR PICASSO.
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Black Motherhood as Literary Creation: Talking with Kaitlyn Greenidge

  • Liz Button
  • April 12, 2021
Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses her new novel, LIBERTIE.
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Closing the Deal: A Conversation with Mateo Askaripour

  • Liz Button
  • January 11, 2021
Mateo Askaripour discusses his debut novel, BLACK BUCK.
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Bridging Narratives: Talking with Jenn Shapland

  • Liz Button
  • March 13, 2020
Jenn Shapland discusses her debut book, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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A Box Full of Darkness: Talking with Adrienne Brodeur

  • Liz Button
  • October 11, 2019
Adrienne Brodeur discusses her new memoir, WILD GAME.
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