The Rumpus Interview with John Darnielle
The Rumpus talks to John Darnielle about his debut novel, Wolf in White Van, the differences between writing prose and songwriting, and what it’s like to be a dad.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ashley Farmer
Voices call back to one another throughout Ashley Farmer’s Beside Myself—the breaks between stories sometimes function like key changes, encouraging readers to receive the book’s motifs in different ways…
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The Rumpus Interview with Duncan Wall
Duncan Wall, a prominent circus theorist and advocate for circus arts, discusses his memoir, The Ordinary Acrobat, narratives of performance, and community-building with the nonprofit Circus Now.
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The Rumpus Review of The Counselor
Throughout the film’s first act, Scott and screenwriter Cormac McCarthy present a culture of testosterone, then spend later scenes toying with this impression…
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The Rumpus Interview with John Hodgman
Comedian, writer, and performer John Hodgman sits down with The Rumpus to chat about channeling Ayn Rand, his Secret Society shows, giving himself permission to open up, and being a product of the Internet.
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We talk to James Vance about the Great Depression, creeping pessimism, and the challenges of exploring these subjects in comics form in his new graphic novel On the Ropes.
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The Rumpus Interview with Steven Amsterdam
Steven Amsterdam’s newest work, What The Family Needed, features a range of voices and perspectives, which will be no surprise to readers of his previous book, or to anyone who’s had a glance at his eclectic C.V.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lars Iyer
If Laurel and Hardy stumbled into Mike Leigh’s Naked, the result might resemble writer and philosophy lecturer Lars Iyer’s novels.
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The Rumpus Interview with Tom Kaczynski
Publisher of Uncivilized Books and comics artist Tom Kaczynski opens up about primal motifs, utopian thinking, and growing up with comic books in Poland.
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