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The
Book Studio
Bethanne Patrick
("The Book Maven") interviews C.M. Mayo about The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and the Washington DC story
behind the story. January 22, 2010.
Coffee
with a Canine Blog
Interview by Marshal
Zeringue. November 25, 2009.
Critical
Mass: National Book Critics Circle
Small Press Spotlight:
An Interview with C.M. Mayo by Rigoberto Gonzalez. October 11,
2009.
 Fall
for the Book Festival (George Mason University): David Heath
interviews C.M. Mayo about
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and the story behind
the story of Mexico's half-American prince. September 2009. (To
read the complete interview, which includes previously unpublished
Q & A about the Empress Carlota, click here.)
BookCast: Podcast interview by
Sam Clay with Pam Jenoff and C.M. Mayo about writing historical
fiction. September 2009.
Amigos
de la Universidad de Chicago
(University of Chicago Mexico Alumni Association)
Apropos of the presentation
of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire in Mexico City
September 2009.
>>Click
here for photos of the event.
Write
On! Online
Debra Eckerling
interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the Mexican
Empire and the writing process. July 3, 2009.
 largehearted
boy
A guest-blog post with a playlist for The Last Prince of the
Mexican Empire.
Savvy Verse & Wit Interview by leading book blogger Serena
Agusto-Cox about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.
Whereabouts
Press Blog
John
Bennett interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the
Mexican Empire— and some of the stories
(by Araceli Ardón, Fernando del Paso,
Mónica Lavín) in Mexico: A Traveler's
Literary Companion.
The
Poet and the Poem
Grace Cavalieri inteviews C.M. Mayo and Francisco Aragon. Recorded
Fall 2008 at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Click
here to go direct to the C.M. Mayo interview.
Ten
Questions for C.M. Mayo
Writerly interview
by Wendy Burt March 1, 2009.
 Poder y negocios
"Se puede conocer a México
a traves del corazón"
An interview (in
Spanish) by Dolia Estevez about Mexico: A Traveler's Literary
Companion, Miraculous Air, and Tameme. October 2007.
National
Public Radio
John Ydstie interviews C.M. Mayo about literary translation and
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion. April 1st 2006.
Flannery
O'Connor Award Series Editor Nancy Zafris Interviews C.M. Mayo
An interview about Sky Over El Nido and what this judge
looks for in a mansucript. April 2008.
 Inside Mexico
Inside Mexico's co-founding editor
Margot Shetterley interviews C.M. Mayo on writing about and translating
in Mexico. June 2007.
(Photo by Luz Montero)
Saint
Ann's Review Interview: Editor
Beth Bosworth interviews C.M. Mayo. Summer / Fall 2008
Travel'n
On Radio
Tonya
and Ian Fitzpatrck interview C.M. Mayo about Mexico: A Traveler's
Literary Companion, Miraculous Air and Mexico's Baja
California peninsula, Mexico City,the forthcoming novel, The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, and more. January 6, 2009.
National
Book Critics Circle Blog "Critical Mass"
Rigoberto Gonzalez interviews C.M. Mayo: "Small Press Spotlight"---
about Tameme, the new chapbook
series, literary translation, and more. April 22, 2008.
EWN
E-Panel: Publishing Panel on Chapbooks
The Emerging Writers
Network Blog, by Dan Wickett. An interview with a panel of six
chapbook editors, including C.M. Mayo (editor of Tameme Chapbooks
~ Cuadernos). October 10, 2008.
Women
of the Web
Didi Menendez of MiPOesias interviews
C.M. Mayo about publishing Tameme.
October 14, 2007.
Baja
Breeze
In the premier issue (August- Sept 2007), editor Adam Behar interviews
C.M. Mayo about the new paperback edition of her memoir, Miraculous Air.
DCist
Interview with C.M. Mayo
by Shawn Westfall, DCist's literary correspondent and improv
workshop leader extraordinaire
Solutions
Abroad
Umair Khan interviews C.M. Mayo about living in and writing about
Mexico. June 2007.
The
Quarterly Conversation
Elizabeth
Wadell interviews C.M. Mayo on the Wide World of Mexican Fiction.
Summer 2007.
Eight
Diagrams
Wayne E. Yang, litblogger extraordinaire, interviews C.M. Mayo
about literary translation and Mexico: A Traveler's Literary
Companion. June 30, 2006.
Edna
Spokane Interviews C.M. Mayo about Her New Anthology, Mexico:
A Traveler's Literary Companion
C.M. Mayo about
Mexican literature, translation, and the Mexican fascination
with the macabre.
Washington
Independent Writers Interview: C.M. Mayo on Mexican Literature and
the anthology Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Emerging
Writers Network
Reading the World: E-Panel of Literary Translators: C.M. Mayo
and others on the art of literary translators.
 Hill
Rag An interview
with C.M. Mayo about her reading of "The Building of Quality"
for the inaugural A Space Inside Reading Series at Riverby Books
on Capitol Hill.
Rolf
Potts' Vagabonding An
interview with C.M. Mayo about travel writing, Baja California,
V.S. Naipaul, and the writing of Miraculous Air.
Baja Talk Radio
Ted Donovan interviews C.M. Mayo about Miraculous Air,
July 19, 2005 1-2 pm Pacific Time. It's been archived--- click
on the link to listen in!
 Creative Nonfiction
(on the web) A
conversation with C.M. Mayo about her recent essay in Creative
Nonfiction's special "Mexican Voices" issue,
"The Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou's Mexico City"
 The Kenyon Review (on the web)
A
conversation with C.M. Mayo about the writing of "The Building
of Quality" -- how it began with James Howard Kunstler's
rant 'n rave...
The
Retriever Weekly
Apropos of a reading from Miraculous Air at the University of
Maryland -Baltimore campus.
ATA
Chronicle Lily
Liu's Interview with the editor of TAMEME. "Literary translation
is an art and it matters very much how well it is done..."
 Film Threat "Talking Pictures:
Kahlo's Ghost" -- C.M. Mayo on Salma Hayek's "Frida"
 Washington City Paper "Baja Afresh" Louis Jacob interviews
C.M. Mayo about Miraculous Air.
 Emerging Writers Network Dan Wicket Interviews
C.M. Mayo about Sky Over El Nido, winner of the Flannery
O'Connor Award for Short Fiction-- and asks the Farenheit 451
question...
CLMP
Newswire "Literary
NAFTA Crosses Borders" C.M. Mayo on the founding of Tameme,
the bilingual (Spanish/English) journal of new writing from Canada,
the US and Mexico
Frequently
Asked Questions
How did
you learn to write?
First,
I love to read so from the time I was small I read a lot. Second
I wrote a lot. Third, I took several writing workshops at summer
writers conferences from good writers (Kelly Cherry, Clark Blaise,
Leonard Michaels, David Rieff, Marilyn Robinson, Paul Bowles,
and others). Fourth, I read -- and continue to read -- many books
on craft. On my workshop page (see
menu below) I provide a list of recommended books.
Where do you
get your ideas?
I relax
and I pay attention. Then it happens. What is "it"?
I'm not sure. My theory is, when
the brain
goes into theta, consciousness expands.
Do you
write every day?
I
try to. When all else fails, there's always the daily five...
Where
can I find your books?
In
any US and many Mexican bookstores; if you don't find it, the
bookstore can order it for you. My
books are also available on all major internet booksellers. For
all purchasing options, click here.
Do you give
readings of your work?
Yes --
for a current schedule of events, click here.
Are you
available to read manuscripts/ edit?
Not
at this time. If you are looking for an editor, a excellent place
to start is with the listings on the website of the Writers Center
in Bethesda, Maryland. Their website is www.writer.org. Many writers do take
on freelance editing, so look around. My wonderful editor from
the University of Utah Press, Dawn Marano, can be contacted at www.dawnmarano.com. Another wonderful writer
who offers tutorials is Janice Eidus. Her website is www.janiceeidus.com In the Washington DC
area I recommend Sara Mansfield Taber www.sarataber.com and Vicki Meade www.meadecomm.com Good luck to you!
Do you
offer writing workshops?
Yes
- for updates you can visit my workshop page. In the meantime, you may find
many of the links from that page useful, especially "resources
for writers".
Who are some
of your favorite travel writers? And which of their books would
you recommend?
It's
a long
and ever-growing list.
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