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Apr 11

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Suzanne: My interview with Leza Lowitz

My fellow American-expatriate Leza Lowitz came to Japan around the same time that I did. I met her after finding her name in a literary journal and writing a letter to invite her to submit to an anthology of expat fiction I’d cooked up. She was extremely helpful. She contributed a story to my anthology, The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Exptriates in Literary Japan, and passed on the names and addresses of other expat writers that she knew.

Since then, Leza has gone on to publish an amazing fifteen books (!) to my three. These include translations, anthologies, poetry collections, and a short story collection. She’s also written a screenplay and won an impressive array of grants and awards. Right now she’s working on a memoir about adopting a Japanese child in Japan, yoga poems, and a novel or two.

My interview with Leza is now online here.

Apr 9

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Lisa D.: Author Interview

I thought a few of you might be interested in the interview I just conducted with How Not to Write a Novel authors Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman.  They weigh in on writing, editing, finding an agent, and even the upcoming U.S. presidential election.  The interview, like their book, is both hilarious and informative.  I posted it on my own blog at http://damiandaily.wordpress.com.