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The Ugly Side of Ambition: A Conversation with Joy Lanzendorfer

  • Frances Badalamenti
  • July 16, 2021
Joy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
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Not Here to Make Friends: Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer

  • Melissa Holbrook Pierson
  • July 31, 2019
Consistent with the author’s headlong personality, the narrative of Rough Magic wastes little time.
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The Thread: The Stories We’ve Been Told

  • Marissa Korbel
  • May 14, 2019
It’s just their story, and we don’t have to believe a word of it.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Whitman Notebook: From Yourself

  • David Biespiel
  • December 13, 2018
To write is not to dream.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #25: Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Success?

  • Charles Kruger
  • April 14, 2017
In America, everybody, it seems, wants to be a success. Me, too. Recently, I confided to a family member that sometimes, in moments of deep despair (fortunately they are fairly…
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The Rumpus Interview with Roxane Gay

  • Abigail Bereola
  • January 4, 2017
Roxane Gay discusses her new collection, Difficult Women, the problem with whiteness as the default and the need for diverse representation, and life as a workaholic.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Pale of Vermont

  • David Biespiel
  • May 17, 2016
But to become a writer I needed at least to learn about my own superstitions. I needed space in the house to sketch with words. I needed to commit heresies. And those acts had to feel pleasurable.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Uzodinma Okehi

  • Jane Liddle
  • May 15, 2016
Novelist Uzodinma Okehi talks with Jane Liddle about ambition and the never-ending hustle of being a writer.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Angela Flournoy

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • February 13, 2016
My ambition is personal. I don’t think I need to succeed so that the race can succeed.
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