Tag: interview

  • Lattes with Ladies: Elizabeth Scott!

    Lattes with Ladies: Elizabeth Scott!

    This is a long and lovely interview I did with the hilarious and indomitable Elizabeth Scott back in January when meeting up in a cafe was no big deal at all. All of the references to what she had been reading and how many books she read thus far were from when the year had…

  • Lattes with Ladies: Justine Abigail Yu!

    Lattes with Ladies: Justine Abigail Yu!

    The triumphant return of Lattes with Ladies begins with the founder of Living Hyphen and magnificent marketing maven, Justine Abigail Yu! I learned about Living Hyphen shortly after they launched and was blown away with the creativity of emerging hyphenate-Canadian writers. Issue 2: Across Generations is in the works and you could be one of…

  • Lattes with Ladies: Jessica Rodriguez!

    Lattes with Ladies: Jessica Rodriguez!

    This is an interview that I originally did back in December and it was another first for this blog. I interviewed Jessica Rodriguez, a really cool lady, and someone I technically met for the very first time.  Jessica is a writer, marketer, and volunteer for Lean In Canada, where she blogs and runs a book…

  • Lattes with Ladies: Jessie Ho!

    Lattes with Ladies: Jessie Ho!

    It’s my first international Lattes with Ladies featuring the intrepid Jessie Ho! Jessie is a writer, aspiring creative, fashion fiend, media addict, would-be social entrepreneur, and my old roommate from university. In between catching up over Skype, we talked about our reading lives in a post-grad world and the challenges of finding books in Hong…

  • Lattes with Ladies: Sara Kannan!

    Lattes with Ladies: Sara Kannan!

    This week I Skyped my friend and former classmate Sara Kannan to talk about postcolonialism, urban fantasy, teen fiction, and books that make you weep for days. HPL: What you reading right now? SK: It’s called The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright. It’s about the conquest of Peru, and it’s mostly told through the perspective of…