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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project features short interviews with interesting people.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #75: Deborah Kampmeier

  • Marissa Korbel
  • March 16, 2017
I met Deborah Kampmeier at a workshop in November. We were two weeks post-election; the room was raw with emotion, and electric with conversations about resistance. This tall, badass woman dressed…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #74: Alexandra Naughton

  • Carmen E. Brady
  • March 9, 2017
Alexandra Naughton is a writer who grew up in Philadelphia but converted to a California girl in 2008. She runs BE ABOUT IT, a small press and reading series and is…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #73: Maggie Shipstead

  • Lucas Loredo
  • March 2, 2017
I first met Maggie Shipstead in 2011 when she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She had not yet published her first novel, Seating Arrangements, which would later become…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #72: Laurie Sheck

  • Ani Kokobobo
  • February 23, 2017
Laurie Sheck is the author, most recently, of Island of the Mad, and A Monster’s Notes, a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #71: Kris D’Agostino

  • Mickie Meinhardt
  • February 16, 2017
In Kris D’Agostino’s second novel, The Antiques, he returns to familiar forms: A dysfunctional family whose members are in various stages of arrested development; a generational home in upstate New…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #70: Jean Conner

  • Garrett Caples
  • February 9, 2017
Jean Conner was married to Bruce Conner from 1957 until his death in 2008. As a result, she tends to be overshadowed by her husband’s larger than life reputation as…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #69: Steven Schwartz

  • Robin Black
  • February 2, 2017
Steven Schwartz’s new book, Madagascar: New and Selected Stories, positively aches (often sighs, sometimes chuckles) with wisdom. Steven understands people. He understands why they do what they do, how they…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #68: David Kukoff

  • David Breithaupt
  • January 26, 2017
“To read,” wrote E.M. Cioran, “is to let someone else do the work for you.” Indeed, David Kukoff has done extensive footwork collecting an array of varied experiences to give…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #67: Anuradha Roy

  • Tochi Onyebuchi
  • January 19, 2017
A tranquil beach town named Jarmuli is the setting of Anuradha Roy’s third novel, Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and made the longlist…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #66: Reimagining Children’s Literature as Mixtape

  • Liz Wood
  • January 12, 2017
In the best collaborations, creative individuals push themselves to work with new media and singular, wild things issue forth. Jeff Antebi of Waxploitation Records has managed to create just this…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #65: Amy Dupcak

  • Jordana Frankel
  • January 5, 2017
I first met Amy Dupcak at The Book Report Network in 2011, where she was an editorial assistant and I, a marketing assistant. We’d shoot off AOL Instant Messages to…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #64: Lianne Stokes

  • Elisa Jordana and Sara-Kate Astrove
  • December 29, 2016
Hi there! We’re the two brunettes who hate sex. Sara-Kate hates sex because it’s too aerobic—she once sprained her foot. She lives in Kips Bay, loves candy, and wears exclusively…
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