From the massive archive….
Usually author interviews are done with
the idea of civility and respect. The
same old questions can always be found in nearly every interview. Then there is
this book and how Lauren Baratz-Logsted (LBL) does them. The Disrespectful
Interviewer: Thirteen Interviews with Authors features interviews with a
sarcastic tone along with plenty of references to the afternoon soap General
Hospital.
The lineup subjected to both praise and
ridicule is: Jon Clinch, A.S. King, Chris Cleave, Tish Cohen, Greg Logsted (her
husband), Kristy Kiernan, Lynn Price, Joseph Finder, Lisa McMann, Lev Raphael,
Adriana Trigiani, J. A. Konrath, and the interviewer herself, Lauren
Baratz-Logsted. As noted in the introduction, the point of these interviews is
to do things different than the standard and often boring interviews that exist
everywhere. The 13 interviews in this
book ran between November 2009 and October 2010 as LBL’s regular column feature
on BiblioBuffet. While the literary e-zine is no more, the interviews live on here.
Along with the usual mention of books
they have done, the authors involved clearly enjoy the process and give just as
good as they get. This give and take results in the occasional reader snicker.
Even if some of the authors here are familiar to you, these interviews will
show a different side to them than you have ever seen before. Books are the
main focus as well as General Hospital for LBL, but negative and/or bad reviews
also play a major role here. Along with finding out about some backstory on
these 13 authors you will also find some more books to read in The
Disrespectful Interviewer: Thirteen Interviews with Authors.
Material supplied by the author in exchange for my objective review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2013, 2023
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