It was a Friday afternoon in mid-August. I sat at my desk, back straight, palms sweating, waiting for Jodi Picoult to pop up on my computer screen.
From the moment I heard she would be headlining this year’s New Hampshire Book Festival, I knew I wanted to interview her.
There’s something so captivating about her writing — complex characters, murky moral conundrums, immersive plots that leave the reader yearning for more.
After Picoult joined the video meeting and we began chatting, it dawned on me that I would have great trouble capturing our conversation in print. She’s vibrant and passionate, her enthusiasm for writing present in every word she speaks. In other words, she’s three-dimensional, all the way.
Yet I wanted every reader to get to experience what I did: a storyteller who seeks to illuminate the truths of humanity through the lens of the people she renders on the page.
I decided to let our conversation speak for itself, rather than trying to write it into a story. You can follow along in The Sitdown, our quarterly Q&A feature.
Alexander Rapp’s piece on pinball is another example of something three-dimensional. His photography is colorful, eye-catching, dynamic. His writing brings the sport to life.
Emilia Wisniewski does the same in illuminating Eagle’s Aerie, “a crafty realm of possibilities” outside of downtown Franklin, as she describes the store and workshop space.
This whole magazine, hopefully, should draw you from the two-dimensional work into the three-dimensional spaces, people and ideas all around us.
Enjoy the exploration!
