New York Times Stray Questions for Kaui Hart Hemmings
- MoneyPants What's in Your Wallet?
- The Agony Column The Truth Hurts. Read and Listen.
- West Coast Live! Kaui talks about misbehaving with Ellen Susman, Michelle Ricmond, and Elizabeth Rosner .
- Hemmings' Novel Idea “Writing wasn’t really a passion—it was more like, How can I get out of having a normal job?”
- Time Out New York “Growing up in Hawaii, I did not constantly think about my Hawaiianness,” she says. “I just thought about how I was going to get beer and where I was going to go surfing..."
- The Honolulu Advertiser "Every person is different. It's not about a masculine or feminine psychology; it's human psychology. I think it's just as much of a leap to go into the mind of a 40-year-old woman or a 10-year-old girl."
- The Deseret News "I just like writing from the point of view of someone who is my opposite. I like playing a role. It's just fun to slip into someone else's skin. It keeps the writing challenging and fun."
- NPR Novel Ideas"I find inspiration in the usual places--by reading other writers' work, and unusual places--watching My Sweet Sixteen on MTV."
- KALW LitQuake, Writing and Rock. Kaui Hemmings inspired by Anti-Flag
- Suicide Girls
- Slushpile.net One of the problems with reading so much is, simply, that you read so much. It’s easy to fall into a rhythm where nothing is exciting, where the books you finish is kind of like munching on saltine crackers, no real taste exactly, no real excitement, just swallow it, take a sip of water, and start on the next one. Sometimes, this rut is caused by an unlucky string of uninteresting books. Other times, this monotony is your own fault where maybe you’re just not into it, or maybe you’re just not giving the books a chance. But whatever the cause, Kaui Hart Hemmings’ collection House of Thieves was one that woke me up out of such a stupor several weeks ago. While no one would call Hemmings’ work minimalist, she certainly manages to make a lot out of a little. The plots are simple, but they build up to have major implications.Hemmings was nice enough to talk to us about the writing program at Stanford, about Hawaii, using dialects in fiction, and the uses of teeth. Original interview.
- Up Front Radio
- WYPR Marc Steiner Show Summer Reading List
