Interview Series · Featured in The Meridian
In Dialogue
Long, unhurried conversations with writers and artists about craft, doubt and the working day.
About the series
Most interviews last twenty minutes and skim the surface. In Dialogue does the opposite: each conversation runs to several hours, transcribed and shaped over weeks, until what remains is the closest thing to sitting in the room.
Guests have included prizewinning novelists, a lighthouse keeper who writes poems, translators, editors and one very candid bookseller. The through-line is always process — not success, but the daily practice that precedes it.
The series runs in The Meridian and is frequently used in creative-writing classrooms as a window into working writers' lives.
Selected conversations
- —Marcus Bell on rewriting a novel four times
- —Adaeze Osei on translating her own poems
- —Tomás Reyes on keeping a lighthouse log
- —Ruth Adler on forty years of bookselling
Larkspur: When do you know a draft is finished?
Marcus Bell: When I stop rearranging the furniture and start dusting. Dusting means it's done — you're just nervous to leave the house.
