Other Writings
Misfits and Reapers: The Gothic inspiration behind "The Dark"
Beatrice.com
March 2017
My first time.... A reflection on Deborah's first publication
Quivering Pen
March 2017
Deborah creates a playlist related to The Dark and Other Love Stories
Largeheartedboy
March 2017
Deborah recommends short story collections for fiction lovers
bookish.com
February 2017
Q+A for Freedom, the app that keeps Deborah productive
(Without it, she would probably just watch Beyonce videos all day....)
blog.freedom.to
February 2017
Memorious Magazine's Forgotten Writers feature: Deborah Willis on Shirley Faessler
"Through its tender and ironic depictions of Auntie Chayele, Pinnie the Intellectual, and other characters who are somehow both larger-than-life and humbly real, these stories capture the deep love and heart-stopping grief of ordinary lives."
Memorious Magazine
February 2017
Q+A for Playboy.com with author Jon Raymond
Jon Raymond and Deborah Willis discuss professional envy, Donald Trump, the role of artists during dark times, and what it takes to write a "fun, happy novel about death and politics and Nazis."
Playboy.com
January 2017
What It's Like Living Here: Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
This city is surrounded by volcanoes, including the still-active Santiguito, and I imagine that the people of Quetzaltenango once swept up volcanic ash and used it to construct their buildings.
Numero Cinq Magazine
August 2014
When We Fell In Love
And so I read a book I'd been meaning to get to: One Hundred Years of Solitude. Why did I fall in love with this magical, seemingly endless tale of Macondo while living and working in the tidy and picturesque French countryside?
Three Guys One Book
September 13, 2010
The Double Life
In one of my lives, I'm a writer. This means, essentially, that I contemplate the human experience while wearing my pajamas. Fortunately, there's another me, and she gets out more.
