The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Yancy
Melissa Yancy discusses her debut story collection Dog Years, using her day job for inspiration, and being “an old curmudgeon at heart.”
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Ann K. Ryles
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Vauhini Vara is studying fiction at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, on leave from her day job as a technology reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Black Warrior Review, and Epoch.
The Rumpus Interview with Paula Whyman
Paula Whyman discusses her debut collection You May See a Stranger, discovering truth in fiction, and how memory interferes with good storytelling.
The Rumpus Interview with Nina Schuyler
Nina Schuyler discusses her latest novel, The Translator, and delves into its narrative of missed meanings, severed connections, and self-renewal.
The Rumpus Interview with Jess Walter
Novelist and short story writer Jess Walter explores fathers and sons, addiction, creating a Statistical Abstract, finding inspiration in the grocery store, and writing from a pure place of empathy.
The Rumpus Interview with Catherine Brady
“I don’t think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does… There’s something heroic to me about people taking risks for the sake of this fragile and intangible thing.”