Fourth of July has come and gone. After a weekend on the Beachcomber, from which you watched the fireworks from the harbor and ignited your own string of lady fingers, you’re finally moored and, though briny and sunbaked, ready to consume something slightly more enriching than all those Dragonflies you’re now regretting.

May we suggest a few Rumpus interviews from four months past? From the stellar line-up, a brief sampling: filmmaker Laurel Nakadate on watching films from the back of a pony, co-founder of Twitter Biz Stone on “a super organism type of organism,” visual artist Tucker Nichols on Anonymous Postcard, documentarian Annalise Ophelian on the transsexual narrative, and–a good mid-summer night’s read– Colson Whitehead on “black boys with beach houses,” and being “true to the lesson of so many peoples’ summers.”

June

Joe Meno 6/26

Dee Snider 6/25

Participants of the AP’s Pilot Program (which began 7/1) to Distribute Non-Profit Journalism 6/24

The Hooping Book’s Ariane Conrad 6/24

Gordon Terry 6/22

Annalise Ophelian 6/17

Colum McCann 6/17

Cecil Woolf 6/16

Sean McCarthy 6/15

Hirokazu Koreeda 6/11

Kate Christensen 6/10

Dave Eggers 6/9

Amy Stein 6/5

Craig Yoe 6/4

Dave Hill 6/3

Thomas Voorhies 6/1

Atom Egoyan 5/20

Kirby Dick 5/19

Gregory Brothers 5/18

Hally McGehean 5/18

Princess Superstar 5/17

James Toback 5/15

Carlos Cuarón 5/13

Dan Baum 5/13

Philippe Lioret 5/10

Lena Dunham 5/10

Jim Granato 5/2

April

D.A. Powell 4/30

Lily Burana 4/29

Colson Whitehead 4/24

Sam Green 4/23

Denis Hayes 4/22

Parry Gripp 4/21

Mikael Kennedy 4/19

Biz Stone 4/17

Josh Weinberg 4/16

Laurel Nakadate 4/8

Laura Kipnis 4/6

March

Béla Fleck and Sascha Paladino 3/30

Kiyoshi Kurosawa 3/27

David Wain 3/24

Peter Rock 3/22

Holly Yarbrough 3/20

Paul Madonna and Hope Gangloff 3/19

Michael Uslan 3/16

Mary Rosenberg 3/14

Bertrand Tavernier 3/13

Tucker Nichols 3/12

Tamim Ansary 3/11

Catherine Brady 3/9

Zack Snyder 3/4

Jason Kottke 3/2

Paul Yoon 3/1

If you want to go way back, also available is a compilation of interviews from The Rumpus’s very first two months.