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Table of Contents

Putting Things Together: Introduction to Interviewing as Creative Practice
Anneleen Masschelein, Rebecca Roach

The Interview as Criticism: David Sylvester’s Artist Interviews
James Finch

Confessions of a Ventriloquist
Sylvère Lotringer, Anneleen Masschelein, Catherine Combes

Criticism Live: The History and Practice of the Critical Interview
Jeffrey J. Williams

Emergent Conversations: Bronwyn Davies on the Transformation of Interview Practices in the Social Sciences
Anneleen Masschelein, Rebecca Roach

“Three words you must never say”: Hermione Lee on Interviewing
Rebecca Roach

The Interviewer Speaks Back: Turning the Tables of the Literary Interview in Contemporary French Novels
Galia Yanoshevsky

“To Unreel a Whole Story”: Julia Kerninon on Writers’ Interviews
Rebecca Roach

“Making Friends”: The Geopolitics of the Interview on the BBC’S Eastern Services
Julie Cyzewski

Ways of Seeing/Ways of Talking: Conversation and Collage in the Films of Mike Dibb
Anneleen Masschelein

Morituri Te Salutant: The Mediatization of the Literary Last Interview at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Anneleen Masschelein

Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention by Jaume Aurell (review)
Barbara Caine

Documentary Across Disciplines eds. by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg (review)
S. Topiary Landberg

Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary by Mary Jo Bona (review)
Christine D. Beaule

Beyond the Archive: Memory, Narrative, and the Autobiographical Process—Explorations in Narrative Psychology by Jens Brockmeier (review)
Maarit Leskelä-Kärki

Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel by Michael A. Chaney (review)
Anna Poletti

PInay: Culture Bearers of the Filipino Diaspora eds. by Virgie Chattergy and Pepi Nieva (review)
Kim Compoc

Life Narratives and Youth Culture: Representation, Agency and Participation by Kate Douglas and Anna Poletti (review)
Victoria Ford Smith

Click and Kin: Transnational Identity and Quick Media eds. by May Friedman and Silvia Schultermandl (review)
Oline Eaton

Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction by Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir (review)
Ellen G. Friedman

Biography, Gender and History: Nordic Perspectives ed. by Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir et al. (review)
Hannah Yoken

Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts by George M. Johnson (review)
Kathy J. Phillips

Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II eds. by Marlene Kadar and Jeanne Perreault (review)
Penny Summerfield

Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age by Jessalynn Keller (review)
Akane Kanai

Autobiographical Comics by Andrew J. Kunka (review)
Candida Rifkind

Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism ed. by Eric D. Lamore (review)
Roland Leander Williams Jr.

Joseph: Portraits through the Ages by Alan T. Levenson (review)
Kapali Lyon

Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues by Mike W. Martin (review)
Raymond Angelo Belliotti

Korean and Korean American Life Writing in Hawai’i: From the Land of the Morning Calm to Hawai’i Nei by Heui-Yung Park (review)
Joseph Han

Understanding Biographies: On Biographies in History and Stories in Biography by Birgitte Possing (review)
Jeremy D. Popkin

Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past by Andrea L. Smith and Anna Eisenstein (review)
Michael Silverstein

Life Writing in the Long Run by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (review)
Thomas R. Smith

Emblem of Faith Untouched: A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer by Leslie Williams (review)
Fredrica Harris Thompsett

The Antiquary: John Aubrey’s Historical Scholarship by Kelsey Jackson Williams (review)
Andrea Walkden