I had a great time in Portland! What a great city -- and what a wonderful space (Space Gallery) for a reading. Anyway, here's a link to an interview I did with the local paper before the reading: http://entertainment.mainetoday.com/news/060115authorq&a.shtml

Edgy! The University of California Davis publishes a really smart, interesting journal called Writing on the Edge: A Journal about Writing and Teaching Writing . I did an interview with editor John Boe last summer, which is now available on line at http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/compos/woe/default.html. It was one of the best times I've ever had being interviewed -- more like having a conversation with a very intelligent, nice person who had read a lot of my work, rather than the typical 'interview', so I think you'll find it interesting if you want to hear what I really sound like when I'm having a conversation. By the way, John's wife knitted me an adorable baby hat (I was about 8 months pregnant at the time of the interview) and I never properly thanked her. So while I have the chance --Thank you, John's Wife! The hat is beautiful!!

Oh Canada!A few days ago, I spoke with Paula Shackleton, who runs a great website called Book Buffet, which is full of interesting stuff about writers and writing. The interview is now up on her site, and you can read it (and listen to it as a podcast -- very modern, eh?) at http://www.bookbuffet.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.article/article_ID/AF24C41C-F68C-43BB-B59D354E17EDA7A9/index.html at your earliest convenience, such as, for instance, right now.

Loose talk...I had a busy December, chatting about my new book (My Kind of Place) everywhere and every chance I could. One of the most interesting interviews was on the Speakeasy Show on WFMU in New York-- here's the link for you to hear the results: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/SE

Here's something just forwarded to me by a reader -- love those blogs!!! http://sixdegreesofaberration.blogspot.com/2004/11/obsession.html

Questions! Questions!.... I got an email the other day from Claire Zulkey, a writer who interviews writers. She asked me to do an on-line q&a for her website...turned out she asked a lot of great questions, which isn't always the case, and I actually had fun answering them (also not usually the case). The link is http://www.zulkey.com/diary_archive_120304.html

Splendid! And Yummy! In my continuing role as the interpreter/muse/spokesperson for canine author (and dog-boy) Cooper Gillespie, i did an interview with NPR's Splendid Table (check it out at http://www.splendidtable.org/) in which we discussed dog food, smelly liver treats, and other literary topics. It plays at different times on different NPR affiliates, but keep an ear cocked for it.

And it was on the champagne network... Over the weekend, CBS did a nice piece about my dog-food cookbook, which featured me, my dog, and my friend and co-author Sally Sampson whipping up some nice, tasty dog treats. Cooper got to enjoy the fruits of our labor. In fact, the dog ate so much during the shoot that I feared he would explode. He didn't. This is a link to the on-line version of the story -- text only, I guess: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/21/earlyshow/saturday/main585052.shtml

Interview with Terry Gross on June 26, 2003 on http://freshair.npr.org/

An email conversation at Slate's Breakfast Table with Jeffrey Goldberg, January 1999.

A discussion on Readerville that I did back in February 2002.

Interview by The Yale Literary Magazine.

Interview with Robert Birnbaum for Identity Theory.

Q&A for The University of Oregon's Literary Nonfiction program.

Powells.com interview done shortly after the release of The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup.

Interview conducted at a reading of The Orchid Thief at Powell's City of Books.

A conversation on Salon.