Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Darin Strauss
More than anyone else, though, Strauss holds himself up to intense examination and scrutiny, revealing very human, and in some cases unflattering, reactions and defenses over the years.
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Sari Botton
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Sari Botton is a writer living in upstate New York. She is the editor of Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NY. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Village Voice and more retrograde women’s magazines than she’d care to recall or admit to. She tweets at @saribotton.
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Stephen Elliott
“We all think we’re retaliating,” Elliott writes. “We all think our actions are justified by someone else’s actions. But actually we’re responsible for what we do.”
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Emily Gould
I don’t know how much braver than you I’m feeling these days,” she wrote back when I first emailed her.
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Shalom Auslander
As someone who was raised with reform Judaism, my negative experiences with religion pale next to Auslander’s.
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Vivian Gornick
In an effort to embolden myself to move past this crippling fear and go on writing – or give up altogether – I’ve begun interviewing memoirists I admire.