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

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #51: Pet Psychic Marla Steele

  • Beverly Parayno
  • April 8, 2014
Each year on my dog Isso’s birthday, I give him the gift of voice: a reading with pet psychics/animal communicators who “talk” to Isso about his likes and dislikes, requests, preferences and physical ailments, if any.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #50: Miranda July on We Think Alone

  • Erika Wolf
  • June 28, 2013
The multitalented Miranda July has departed from her usual theme of everyday people and enlisted ten celebrities and public figures to divulge emails from their personal inboxes.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #49: Paul of Captain Pete’s Bait & Tackle

  • Wendy C. Ortiz
  • June 8, 2013
Wendy C. Ortiz conducts a mini-interview with one of her favorite Facebook friends, who happens to be in a notorious motorcycle gang.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #48: Sara Finnerty in Conversation with Her Grandmother, Elena Iocco

  • Sara Finnerty
  • May 11, 2013
My grandparents, Luigi and Elena, were married on February 14th, 1947, in Italy, where there is no such thing as Valentines Day.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #47: Kevin Sampsell in Conversation with Gary Lutz

  • Kevin Sampsell
  • September 14, 2011
Gary Lutz, who in many circles is already known as a master of sentences, takes it to another level in his new collection, Divorcer (Calamari Press). Some of the sentences…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #46: Dane Golden in Conversation with Alan Paul

  • Dane Golden
  • August 19, 2011
Beijing was changing under his feet, and expatriate Alan Paul was changing, too. A transplanted suburban dad, he was a “trailing spouse” who followed his wife on her promotion and…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #45: Chloe Caldwell in Conversation with Sarah Kilborne

  • Chloe Caldwell
  • August 1, 2011
I interviewed author, Sarah Kilborne, who lives in the same town as I do, Hudson, New York, and takes banjo lessons downstairs in my father’s music store that I live…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #44: Beverly Parayno in Conversation with Gregory

  • Beverly Parayno
  • July 15, 2011
Gregory is an eighty-two-year-old Russian Jewish man who works across the aisle from me at a nonprofit community center in Palo Alto. I’d always been curious about why he was…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #43: Alana Voth in Conversation with Her Facebook Friend, Terry Gearlds

  • Alana Noel Voth
  • June 1, 2011
Terry Gearlds and I have never met. We’re friends on Facebook. We share some stuff in common like True Blood and horror movies. Also, anytime either of us see a…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #42: Aimee Loiselle in Conversation with Grace Smith

  • Aimee Loiselle
  • May 31, 2011
I met Grace Smith (Yup’ik) when I was researching an article for The Circle, a Native American newspaper in the Twin Cities. The Native community in the Twin Cities is…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #41: Alex Behr in Conversation with Margaret Murray

  • Alex Behr
  • May 30, 2011
I heard about Margaret Murray before I met her: strange rumors about her being a kept woman in LA and a sad, true story of her apartment burning down in…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #40: Chelsea Biondolillo in Conversation with a Ghost Hunter

  • Chelsea Biondolillo
  • May 24, 2011
My sister is six years younger, and as kids we never got along. In high school, I went through a phase that involved a lot of sneaking out to drink…
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