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Gabe Durham
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The Rumpus Interview with Christy Crutchfield
Novelist Christy Crutchfield talks about her debut, How to Catch a Coyote, world building, inspiration, icky fiction, the role of mystery, and the marathon of novel writing
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The Rumpus Interview with Maxwell Neely-Cohen
Maxwell Neely-Cohen discusses smart teens, furious parents, the apocalypse, and how our screens change how we see the world.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jensen Beach
In the following exchange, writer Jensen Beach discusses mad stats, organizing principles, Sweden, the Bay Area, benevolent lying, Biblical annotation, bighearted wickedness, and the Fatherly Moment.
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The Rumpus Interview with Chris Bachelder
Novelist Chris Bachedler discusses crafting his latest book, Abbott Awaits, about a self-conscious professor.
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The Last Books I Loved: After Man and Man After Man
A couple of the more exciting book stumbles I’ve enjoyed recently are Geologist Dougal Dixon’s “zoology of the future,” After Man (1981), and its “anthropology of the future” sequel, Man After Man (1990). After Man is a credible paleontology/speculative fiction…
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The Last Book I Loved: I Remember
When I read a few dozen I Remembers in Joe Brainard’s I Remember, my brain starts mining itself without me telling it to. The canonical memories come first, but these set my brain on course to dustier ones it usually…