The Rumpus Interview with Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews talks about writing, mental illness, death with dignity laws, and the thin and sometimes troubling line between fiction and autobiography.
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Meredith Turits
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Meredith Turits is the senior culture editor at Bustle.com and a blog editor at the Brooklyn Quarterly. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, BlackBook, The Rumpus, Bookslut, Joyland, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and more. She can be found in Brooklyn and at @meredithturits.
The Rumpus Interview with Julia Fierro
Writer and founder and director of New York's Sackett Street Writer's Workshop Julia Fierro talks about her debut novel, Cutting Teeth, reading with scrutiny, being able to edit your own work, and motherhood.
The Rumpus Interview with Chang-Rae Lee
Novelist Chang-rae Lee talks about his latest book's "chorus of 'we,'" keeping diverse company, trying not to overthink his work, and an ongoing attempt to escape himself.
The Rumpus Interview with Olivia Laing
Writer, journalist, and critic Olivia Laing discusses her newest book, The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, and the challenges of looking into the mind of an alcoholic versus the mind of a writer.
The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Sampsell
Writer and publisher Kevin Sampsell talks about his first novel, This Is Between Us, the intricacies of romantic relationships, and making people uncomfortable through "holy shit moments."