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Chelsea Voulgares
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Labor and Trauma in the American Workplace: A Conversation with Elaine Castillo
“A lot of people think financial ruin looks like Dickensian destitution. But for many Americans, what it looks like is a never-ending credit card debt. Financial illiteracy can look very luxurious. But the way American fiction describes material possessions, and…
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Unearthing the Sediment of Stories in Our Bodies: An Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
When I’m inside creativity or making art, it feels like a worthy place for a person like me to spend her life.
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“Obsession is the Secret Ingredient to Being a Creative Person”: A Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
That’s a concern that one might have in the middle of one’s life: “How much time do I have left? What did I not do? What do I still need to do?”
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Inheritance, Family, and Beauty: A Conversation with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s debut novel Glassworks (Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2023) follows one family through four generations. The story begins in 1910 with the wealthy young philanthropist Agnes Carter, and then follows her descendants, both in blood and in spirit, up until…
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All the World is a K-Drama: A Conversation with Matthew Salesses
I wanted to be able to frame the story within this understanding that these are powerful forces and that these are stories we’ve heard a lot before, and that these stories get in the way of, or make it hard…
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Centering, Appropriation, and Satire: A conversation with Chinelo Okparanta
. . . for me, a true ally makes me feel safe by actually hearing me out, by not dismissing my experiences or immediately jumping to the defense of the other party. Such an ally admits their limitations while also…
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The Struggles are Entwined: Talking about Nuclear Family with Joseph Han
It takes a certain tenacity to embrace being a stoner. It’s all you want to do sometimes as the daily driver and mode of being.
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Negotiating Girlhood: A Conversation with Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz discusses her debut memoir, ORDINARY GIRLS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #171: Angie Kim
“All in all, it took six years—one year of preparing and marinating, two years of drafting, then three years of revising!”
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The Real People: A Conversation with Rebecca Makkai
Rebecca Makkai discusses her forthcoming third novel, The Great Believers, how she arrived at the book’s structure, and the story and its characters.