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Liz Button

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.

Interviews

Liz Button

Mar 12, 2026

Autobiomythography or Attending to What Memoir Excises: A Conversation with Lana Lin

My artistic practice includes making films, writing, and visual art. It’s driven by the same kinds of concerns around race, identity, and self-expression—and what it means to speak or to say something. In an interview [about] Dorothy, a publishing project,…
Features & Reviews, Interviews, Rumpus Original

Liz Button

Apr 6, 2022

Candy from Strangers: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan

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…
Features & Reviews, Interviews, Rumpus Original

Liz Button

Mar 30, 2022

Looking for Trouble: A Conversation with Maud Newton

Are these stories true? Did my great grandfather really kill someone with a hay hook? Was my other great grandfather really a communist?
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Liz Button

Nov 3, 2021

Facing Her Truth: A Conversation with Ariel Henley

Ariel Henley discusses her debut memoir, A FACE FOR PICASSO.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Liz Button

Apr 12, 2021

Black Motherhood as Literary Creation: Talking with Kaitlyn Greenidge

Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses her new novel, LIBERTIE.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Liz Button

Jan 11, 2021

Closing the Deal: A Conversation with Mateo Askaripour

Mateo Askaripour discusses his debut novel, BLACK BUCK.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Liz Button

Mar 13, 2020

Bridging Narratives: Talking with Jenn Shapland

Jenn Shapland discusses her debut book, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Liz Button

Oct 11, 2019

A Box Full of Darkness: Talking with Adrienne Brodeur

Adrienne Brodeur discusses her new memoir, WILD GAME.