Christine Sneed
Q and A with Gina Frangello, Author of A Life in Men
Tell us a little about your book. A Life in Men centers on a woman traveler, Mary, with cystic fibrosis, who is trying to live as large...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20186 min read
Q and A with Megan Stielstra, Author of Once I Was Cool
Tell us about your book. It’s a collection of personal essays about what comes after the coming-of-age. I was thinking about adulthood....
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20185 min read
Q and A with TaraShea Nesbit, author of the novel The Wives of Los Alamos
The Wives of Los Alamos is a lyrical, extraordinarily accomplished first novel that I zipped through in just a couple of days. From...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20184 min read
Q and A with Peggy Shinner, Author of You Feel So Mortal
Tell us a little about You Feel So Mortal. The book is a collection of essays about the body: my own body, female and Jewish; my parents,...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20183 min read
Writing Process Blog Tour!
This is a blog post relay, which the lovely and talented Eileen Favorite (author of The Heroines) invited me to join. Question #1: What...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20183 min read
Q and A with Kathleen Rooney, Author of O DEMOCRACY!
Tell us a little about your novel. My friend Chris Weiher made a fantastic trailer for the book that you can watch here...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20185 min read
Q and A with Randy Richardson, Author of LOST IN THE IVY
Tell us a little about your book. The book revolves around reporter Charley Hubbs, a die-hard Cubs fan who has landed in Wrigleyville...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20183 min read
The Age of Irony
Perhaps what is most remarkable about Spike Jonze’s new film Her is the absence that visibly inhabits the film, which is set in Los...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20184 min read
All Is Lost: 2013's Best Film?
When All Is Lost was in the theaters last fall, I wasn’t sure what I would think. One hour and forty-five minutes with one character, and...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20186 min read
Q and A with Paulette Livers, Author of the novel Cementville
Tell us a little about Cementville. In late spring of 1969, a picturesque southern town is turned inside out by the deaths of seven young...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20184 min read
Q and A with Floyd Skloot about REVERTIGO: AN OFF-KILTER MEMOIR
At the center of REVERTIGO: An Off-Kilter Memoir is a 138-day attack of unrelenting vertigo that began--out of nowhere--on the morning of...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20184 min read
Barry Gifford, David Lynch and Wild at Heart
One of the featured events at Columbia College Chicago’s annual Story Week (March 16 – 21) was a reading and discussion with novelist and...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20183 min read
Rules, Shmules
Final blog post for Ploughshares, 4.11.11: Because several of my preceding posts have been very earnest, and also, possibly, a little...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20183 min read
Why a Novel About Hollywood?
My second book, Little Known Facts, is a novel about a family in Hollywood with a successful actor at its center. My primary interests...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20183 min read
Bright Star
Certain films, like beautiful, inviting houses, are places where many of us wish we could live. It’s rare that I feel this way when...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20184 min read
Why Is It Taking So Friggin' Long?
Originally appeared on the Ploughshares blog (March 2011) It’s hard to dispute the omnipresent signs that we are a nation of both...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20185 min read
Wherefore and Why the MFA?
Originally appeared on the Ploughshares' blog. I realize there is no shortage of essays justifying or vilifying the creative writing MFA...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20185 min read
Judgment Day: The Literary Competition
Originally published on the Ploughshares blog. A number of years ago, I was invited to judge two short story contests, one for the...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20183 min read
Sh*t My Mom Says: Women, Men and Humor
Originally published on the Ploughshares blog: Ellen, Rosanne, Whoopi, Tina. They’re women, they tell jokes, and we’re on a first-name...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20184 min read
Best-Worst Enemy: On Publishing My First Book
Originally published on the Ploughshares blog, winter 2011: I had been writing fiction for fifteen years and publishing stories in...
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