Archive for the ‘Author Interviews’ Category

A Conversation With Edward Frenkel, Mathematician & Filmmaker

By Zara Raab Photo credit: Nahoko Spiess Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, and author of more than 80 articles in scientific journals, Edward Frenkel has published two monographs on his mathematical research, most recently Langlands Correspondence for Loop Groups, with Cambridge University Press. Professor Frenkel

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What Does a Writer Know?

By Phil Semler Nicole Krauss, the author of The History of Love, Man Walks Into a Room, and Great House was the keynote speaker at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s Bookfest 2012, Sunday, February 26, 2012. Addressing an adoring audience of 500 in Kanbar Hall, she gave a

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A Conversation With Author Bernard Leo Remakus, M.D.

Interviewed by Jamais Jochem   Jamais Jochem: What was the inspiration for Mia? Bernard Leo Remakus: As a physician and medical journalist, I always try to look at things from as many different angles as possible. I try to find the little-known exception to a rule and

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An Interview with Philip Fradkin (Part Two)

By Zara Raab << Read Part One This continues our interview with writer Philip Fradkin, whose extensive body of work is essential to understanding California and the American West. In Part I, archived below, Mr. Fradkin spoke about his upbringing in New Jersey, his father’s roots in

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An Interview with Philip Fradkin (Part One)

By Zara Raab Philip Fradkin’s extensive body of work is essential to understanding California and the American West. Over the past half century, he has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles and thirteen books about the region, its natural and human histories, varied landscapes, and some of

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Interview – Stephen Kessler (Part Two)

This is the second part of a two-part Interview with the writer, translator and editor Stephen Kessler by Zara Raab. Read PART ONE. Stephen Kessler is the author of eight books of poetry, fourteen books of translation, as well as a novel, The Mental Traveler (2009) and

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Interview – Stephen Kessler (Part One)

By Zara Raab Stephen Kessler is the author of eight books of poetry, fourteen books of translation, as well as a novel, The Mental Traveler (2009) and two books of essays, Moving Targets and The Tolstoy of the Zulus (El León Literary Arts, 2008, 2011, respectively). He

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Interview with Jeanne Wagner

Jeanne Wagner has published three chapbooks and two full-length books, The Zen Piano Mover and In the Body of Our Lives, just out from Sixteen Rivers Press. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the 2004 Stevens Manuscript Prize (for The Zen Piano Mover),

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An Interview with author Chana Bloch

By Zara Raab Chana Bloch has published four books of poetry — The Secrets of the Tribe, The Past Keeps Changing, Mrs. Dumpty, and Blood Honey. She is the co-translator of The Song of Songs (with Ariel Bloch) and The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (with Stephen

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Interview with Lucille Lang Day

Author of six books and three chapbooks, Lucille Lang Day (http:lucillelangday.com) is a visible presence in the Bay Area poetry scene, a frequent guest reader at public events, and director of Scarlet Tanager Books [www.scarlettanager.com]. With an M.F.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University, as

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