The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Yancy
Melissa Yancy discusses her debut story collection Dog Years, using her day job for inspiration, and being “an old curmudgeon at heart.”
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Ann K. Ryles
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Ann Ryles was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and a semi-finalist for the Ohio State University Press Non/Fiction Collection Prize and the Iowa Short Fiction & John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her stories have appeared in The Minnesota Review, Your Impossible Voice, Midwestern Gothic, Gargoyle, and Konundrum Engine Literary Review. She lives in Moraga, California with her family.
The Rumpus Interview with Paula Whyman
Paula Whyman discusses her debut collection You May See a Stranger, discovering truth in fiction, and how memory interferes with good storytelling.
The Rumpus Interview with Nina Schuyler
Nina Schuyler discusses her latest novel, The Translator, and delves into its narrative of missed meanings, severed connections, and self-renewal.
The Rumpus Interview with Jess Walter
Novelist and short story writer Jess Walter explores fathers and sons, addiction, creating a Statistical Abstract, finding inspiration in the grocery store, and writing from a pure place of empathy.
The Rumpus Interview with Catherine Brady
“I don’t think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does… There’s something heroic to me about people taking risks for the sake of this fragile and intangible thing.”