Michelle Richmond Interviews

Interview by Jessica Zack for the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, July 2021

Interview by Garrett Seales Sanders for Troy Public Radio, April 2022. Listen on Soundcloud. Discussed: the next book, and my advice for aspiring writers

Interviews for THE MARRIAGE PACT

Listen to Richard & Judy’s interview with Michelle on the Richard & Judy Podcast

Exclusive interview with Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan for the Richard & Judy Book Club in the UK

Interviewed by Alex Dolan for Thrill Seekers Radio—on musical influences in the book, the origin of “Hello Friends,” Michelle’s marriage, rules of love, shifting to the thriller genre, and more

Joe Hartlaub for Bookreporter, August 2017 – on cults, the Federal Criminal Code, the inspiration for The Marriage Pact, the rules of The Pact, collectivism, therapy, and Patti Smith

William Thornton for Al.com – on writing a feminist thriller, Orwell, Heller, love, career shifts, and why (some) men get married

John King for Mill Valley Lit: a wide-ranging conversation on Michelle’s body of work, conducted at Java Beach in San Francisco, one of the settings for The Year of Fog

The Big Thrill August, 2017 – on the choices we make, embracing genre, literary influences, and the little NorCal town where Teslas outnumber street lamps

Interviews for GOLDEN STATE and more

• HuffPost UK – an interview by Claire Meadows, Editor in Chief of After Nyne Magazine, on the origin of Golden State, melding the public with the private in fiction, and more.
• Interviewed by Ugur Ugan for Turkish newspaper Millyet: Evlilik; gerilim dozu sürekli artan bir oyun mu?
• Marissa Spyker for Coastal Living 2014 (Golden State)
• In the Stacks with Michelle Zafino 2014 (Golden State)

Radio Interviews:
With Ben Fong-Torres on KFRC, 2008
With Sedge Thompson for West Coast Live, May 5, 2007
Jim Foster for Conversations on the Coast, May 2007
Random House author’s podcast, 2008, about No One You Know
With Don George & Simon Winchester on Talk of the Nation, Nov. 2005
With the Bad Girls posse at the San Francisco JCC, aired on KALW, 2008.  Click here and scroll down to Bad Girls
For KQED’s Writer’s Block, May 2006, reading an essay on MFA debauchery
With Nicki Richesin & contributors to The May Queen anthology on the Bat Segundo Show
Jordan Rosenfeld for The California Report, April 2007 (on The Year of Fog)

Blogs:
Gina Holmes for Novel Journey, Dec. 2007

Leonardo Cuellar for Mary

Nicki Richesin for The Happy Booker

Gayle Brandeis for Fruitful, the blog

Joshilyn Jackson for Faster Than Kudzu

Michelle Roberts Matthews for the Mobile Register

Pam Kingsbury for Southern Scribe