The Tightrope Walk between Authenticity and Fraudulence: A Conversation with Diego Báez
Humor and self-deprecation can impose an ironizing distance, but at what cost?
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Daniel A. Olivas
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Mina Seçkin is a writer and editor from New York City. She serves as managing editor of Apogee Journal and works in the New Yorker's fiction department. Her writing has been published in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.
I’m a Firm Believer in Timing: An Interview with Rubén Degollado
For me, it is actually harder to write a book that is grounded in realism, as that is not how I see the world or how my family sees the world.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Nacho
The benign lipoma floated in a small jar that Abundio had set on his nightstand when he came back from the doctor’s office. At first, when Dr. Reyes had asked him if he would like to bring it home, Abundio had laughed in the belief that this was nothing more than obtuse doctor humor. But Dr. Reyes did not smile and waited for a response to her question. So, Abundio said: “Sure.”