The Rumpus Interview with Colum McCann
Novelist Colum McCann sits down and talks about his latest book, the musicality of voice, weaving the fictional with the historical, and the importance of failure.
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Posts by: Alec Michod
In Praise of the Long, Lunatic Novel
More often than not, the best surprises arrive in unmarked brown boxes. In this case the mysterious contents appeared to be harmless enough, despite the intimidating immensity of the thing: it was the new novel by the great Hungarian writer Péter Nádas, a 1,000-plus-page behemoth called Parallel Stories.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Sloane Crosley
For a writer, Sloane Crosley’s a pretty fancy young lady. For starters, she’s been in the New York Times—for her fashion sense; she’s gone head to head with comedic Scottish bulldog Craig Ferguson
...moreThe Rumpus Interview With Chris Adrian
The list of reputable writers who have worked in the medical field is long and distinguished—Chekhov, Bulgakov, William Carlos Williams, among many others—and yet the promethean doctor-divinity-student-novelist-daredevil Chris Adrian,
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with John Sayles
John Sayles is a force of nature, a do-it-yourself renaissance man—director, actor, screenwriter, script doctor, novelist.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview With David Mitchell
The brainy British novelist David Mitchell is a member of that elite club of living writers—Pynchon, Coetzee—who have spawned an obscene amount of critical adoration.
...moreReturn of the Woodster: The Rumpus Interview With Gary Shteyngart
When he’s not documenting his irreversible addiction to food porn or commiserating with the literary illuminati, Gary Shteyngart writes books. OK, he writes some of the funniest books I have read, penned by a Soviet or otherwise.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is widely regarded, not pejoratively, as an “unclassifiable” novelist.
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