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Joshua Mohr

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Joshua Mohr is the author of five novels, most recently “All This Life.”
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The Rumpus Interview with D. Foy

  • Joshua Mohr
  • November 2, 2016
D. Foy discusses his latest novel, Patricide, the evolution of “gutter opera,” his writing process, free will, and memes.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Last Chance out of Jonestown

  • Joshua Mohr
  • August 16, 2015
An addict struggles to forgive himself for the violence he sowed.
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The Rumpus Interview with Luke B. Goebel

  • Joshua Mohr
  • January 19, 2015
Luke B. Goebel talks about his experimental novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, his dark days in San Francisco, hands as blood-bags, and literary Ouija boards.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sean Michaels

  • Joshua Mohr
  • October 8, 2014
The Rumpus talks to Sean Michaels about his new book, Us Conductors, challenging a reader’s empathy, and a true, strange musical instrument: the theremin.
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The Rumpus Interview with D. Foy

  • Joshua Mohr
  • June 12, 2014
Writer D. Foy waxes poetic about Made To Break, gutter opera, Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess, remembering and imagining, the nature of reality, the perfection of humans, and treeing.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Valentine’s Day

  • Joshua Mohr
  • December 8, 2013
It was only one meal after all and what could go wrong? The answer was simple. Me.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Veronica’s Teeth

  • Joshua Mohr
  • October 27, 2013
"...people like us made our own destruction. We suicide-bombed our own lives."
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The Rumpus Interview with Jesse Michaels

  • Joshua Mohr
  • October 4, 2013
Jesse Michaels, former member of the punk bands Operation Ivy, Big Rig, and Common Rider, chats about his first novel, the thin line between fact and fiction, and how to turn off the voices in your head that scream "I'm nuts!" and "I'm shit!"
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Sunday Rumpus Interview: Joshua Mohr and Michelle Haimoff

  • Joshua Mohr
  • June 3, 2012
Two nocturnal authors talk shop about insomnia.
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Zazen

  • Joshua Mohr
  • May 26, 2011
Beautiful language builds the captivating apocalyptic world in Vanessa Veselka’s debut Zazen, the first title from new publisher Red Lemonade.
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The Rumpus Interview with Patrick DeWitt

  • Joshua Mohr
  • April 27, 2011
The Rumpus talks to Patrick DeWitt about his new book, The Sisters Brothers, the story of two brothers in Gold Rush California.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Evison

  • Joshua Mohr
  • February 14, 2011
“It's difficult to forget yourself, to put your whole life on some back burner, and give yourself to your characters. But that's what you've gotta do to get the job done.”
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