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J.B. Powell
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The Rumpus Interview with Geoffrey Wolff
Essayist and writer Geoffrey Wolff talks about the universality of experience, why good memoir draws more attention to the characters around you, and trading writing tips with his brother Tobias.
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The Rumpus Interview with T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle, who has now written over twenty books, talks to The Rumpus about his most recent short story collection, four decades of cooking up high-grade literary tales, the importance of performance during readings, and life at the Iowa Writers’…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin talks about her new story collection, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses, why she never says “ohhh” at poetry readings, and how desire and dread like to sleep in the same bed.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jon Mooallem
Jon Mooallem, author of Wild Ones, sits down to discuss human attitudes towards animals, copulation hats, chasing Martha Stewart across the tundra, and the historical relationship between Thomas Jefferson and mammoths.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Smokler
Reading is a wild act of daring and risk. Reading a book, imagining the world different than how it is where you’re currently standing, is a great psychological, social risk.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ayize Jama-Everett
Oakland-based novelist Ayize Jama-Everett sits down to talk notions of family, growing up as a sci-fi and comics lover in Harlem, and Tupac Shakur.