DAVID MICHAEL SLATER
INTERVIEW TOPICS

Writing across audiences
How do you decide whether a story belongs to children, teens, or adults, and what changes when you write for each?

Humor and difficult subjects
How do you find the point where a joke can reveal something painful without making light of it?

Fantasy and historical memory
How did growing up across from Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue shape The Vanishing, and why tell this story through magical realism?

Thirty years in classrooms
Which assumptions about education did your teaching experience lead you to question?

Jewish stories and literary community
How do Jewish identity, memory, and your work at JUDITH MAGAZINE inform the stories you tell and publish?

Obedience on the stage
What drew you to Stanley Milgram, and what can musical theater bring to the question of why people obey?

