Interviews
Click here to read a interview with Mary Cappello and Lisa Randall on Awkward: A Detour, for the Newport Mercury.
Memoir is about memory and its vicissitudes, and the reason I read other people’s memoirs is that I long to know how other people have marshaled the resources at their disposal to re-invent the relationship between past and present… I think that there are special narrative challenges that gay and lesbian, bi and transgender writers face that have to do with this imperative to disclose, and I think the discourse of disclosure, so to speak, limits the ways in which we can talk about our sexuality, or, if you will, “remember” it. Memoir makes sense to me as a form for queer writers because I think we are very much engaged in a collective remembering, and the kind of remembering we’re doing, which goes against the grain of dominant ideology, requires new forms. Read an interview ON WRITING MEMOIR with Mary Cappello from Dickinson Magazine (Winter 1999)
The voice of the parents probably operates in greater or lesser degree but always is working somehow in the work of a writer… I love refuse, I love debris: I gather it toward the making of after-images…I think Americans are much too preoccupied both with health and with healing rather than with caring…Read an interview on audience, voice, and one writer’s beginnings with Mary Cappello and Clara Antonucci.
Listen to an interview with Mary Cappello and Susan Franzblau, 91.9 WFSS/FM, Public Radio for the Carolina Sandhills, on Night Bloom.
“…one needs to distinguish between transcription and writing, and one learns by experience that transcribing a dialogue is NOT the same as writing a dialogue…Have you ever fallen in love with someone because of their relationship to language? Is love, in fact, possibly based on a shared desire in language, a shared relationship TO language?... perhaps one shouldn’t proceed in creating dialogue until one has considered what a character’s relationship to language is…I think it is important to find resources where one least expects them…all writing is dialogical, and writing at its best makes new conversation possible… Read an Interview with Cappello and URI Alum Lisa Lombardo on “Composing Dialog.”
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