Today it was my pleasure to talk with Kelly McMasters, an essayist, professor of creative writing, mother, and friend. Kelly is also a Norton author, and we met through our mutual friend, the brilliant
of Write More, Be Less Careful. Kelly’s memoir The Leaving Season just debuted in paperback. I read it last summer in hardback, and have been dying to talk at length with her about it ever since, which we finally made time to do, today.I hope you enjoy our conversation; I also hope you enjoy the fact that, in one of those beautiful confluences that so often happen to me with other writers I love, her paperback arrived in the mail just as I was typing this little missive, and the copy of Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation, that I sent her Friday morning, showed up on her doorstep.
