The Rumpus Interview with D. Foy
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
An addict struggles to forgive himself for the violence he sowed.
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The Rumpus Interview with Luke B. Goebel
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
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
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
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
“…people like us made our own destruction. We suicide-bombed our own lives.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Jesse Michaels
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!”
...moreSunday Rumpus Interview: Joshua Mohr and Michelle Haimoff
Two nocturnal authors talk shop about insomnia.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Patrick DeWitt
The Rumpus talks to Patrick DeWitt about his new book, The Sisters Brothers, the story of two brothers in Gold Rush California.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Evison
“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.”
...moreTHE BLURB #13: The Anxiety of Influence
Instead of writing this book review, I’ve been pacing around my apartment and slugging absurd quantities of coffee and snarling to myself about slinging postmodern bullshit all over the page.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Joe Meno
Two authors, one dinner table. Joshua Mohr talks to Joe Meno about The Great Perhaps, fundamentalism, and why George W. Bush’s sentences are so short.
...moreNotes from Underground
The world will end in a matter of hours… unless Lowboy can lose his virginity.
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