Jamie Thome spoke with Journalist and Photographer Lee Bey in February of 2021.

Jamie Thome spoke with Independent Filmmaker and Animator Lisa Barcy.

Our current round of collaboration began when one sent the other a question and a challenge: "Write so the land can read you and finds you beautiful. How do you know?"

The dining room on Congress Street was the place where everything happened. At night it served as my bedroom, where I slept on a twin bed that came with bed bugs, which I hunted down. I attached them to little wooden carts with twine. Well, not really.

Jamie Thome spoke with Lydia Millet in January of 2021.

For this ABH Conversation, Jamie spoke with Jen Thomas, an artist, designer, educator, and writer based in Richmond, Virginia.

On Thursday, December 17th, 2020, we talked with artist and bookbinder Sylvia Ramos Alotta. 

In this first video of our new Artists Book House Tutorials series, artist and papermaker Andrea Peterson teaches you how to make a simple Japanese Sugeta-style mold and deckle for hand paper making. Then she demonstrates how to use the Sugeta to pull western style sheets.

The moon conceals herself beneath a mask of sky. A tireless wind tears rust-stained rice-paper leaves from autumn pines. The sun sets in Jatinga, a small cliff-side village on an Indian plateau. Tonight, birds fall like rain.

On November 19th, 2020, we spoke with writer and librarian Betsy Bird!

On November 12th, we spoke with writer Toya Wolfe! 

On November 5th, 2020, we spoke with the ever intrepid artist and bookmobile proprietor Trish Shepard! 

On October 29, 2020 we spoke with writer Juan Martinez!

On December 3rd, 2020, we visited with artist, calligrapher, and paper maker Pam Paulsrud. 

‘Cause Grandma’s from Jackson, Mississippi, she can go to work on cornbread and buttermilk or cornbread and beans or, well, cornbread and anything all smashed up in a bowl. But you live in Chicago, and are only country by association, so you’ll need something green, like greens or cabbage or spinach to accompany your cornbread. Choose one.

On 27 August 2020, we spoke with writer Khanisha Foster.

ABH Board Member Ken Gerleve recently sat down with ABH’s founder and president, bestselling author and visual artist Audrey Niffenegger, to discuss ghosts, ghost stories, cemeteries, and their relevance to her artwork and writing.

On October 29th, Jamie Thome spoke with author and illustrator Pam Smy.

On 22 October 2020 we talked with author and illustrator Landis Blair! 

On 15 October 2020, we talked with graphic novelist Emil Ferris!