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The Art of The Believer Interview: Twenty Years of Artists In Conversation
Saturday, February 10, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
For over twenty years The Believer has interviewed the artists and writers that define our culture. The magazine’s tone of candor and camaraderie fosters an environment where the reader often feels as though they are witnessing a rare and intimate conversation between friends. This panel will feature four acclaimed writers who have published interviews in The Believer, and will touch on how they approached the interview process and what makes a literary interview sparkle.
Participants
Rita Bullwinkel is the author of Headshot and Belly Up, which garnered both a Whiting Award and The Believer Book Award. She is a contributing editor of NOON, an editor at large for McSweeney's, and the deputy editor of The Believer. She teaches at University of San Francisco and CCA.
James Yeh is a writer, editor, and journalist. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, The Believer, Drift, McSweeney’s Quarterly, NOON, and elsewhere. He works as the deputy editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly and teaches writing at Columbia University.
Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, most recently the novel Barn 8. A Guggenheim fellow and finalist for the National Book Critics Award, she has published in the Paris Review, Granta, Harper's, and elsewhere. A professor at UT Austin, she also directs a prison creative writing program.
Courtney Zoffness is the author of Split Milk (McSweeney's 2021). She won the Sunday Times Short Story Award as well as fellowships from the Center for Fiction and MacDowell. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, the New York Times, and elsewhere. She teaches at Drew University.
Anelise Chen
