The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #39: Luuk Imhann in Conversation with a Fisherman
There’s fisherman who is famous in my town in northern Holland, near the sea. They say he has been around the world a few times, so I thought I would…
Mini-Interviews
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project features short interviews with interesting people.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #38: Alana Noël Voth in Conversation with Her Best Friend, Judy Salamon
I’ve known Judy Salamon two years. We work together, and she’s one of the main reasons I enjoy my job. Judy tells the best stories. She’s also a kind and…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #37: Rachel Ann Brickner in Conversation with Varun Bhandari
Varun and I met shortly before we graduated from college, and then I moved across the country. We remained in good touch until he visited me. We fought and then…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #36: Tom DeMarchi in Conversation with Angie Lucas
Angie is my nineteen-month-old son Charlie’s nanny. She’s been living with us since October 12, 2010. Angie is thirty years old, and is currently reading John Williams’s novel Stoner.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #35: Alex Behr in Conversation with Terri Manning
In the late 1980s, Terri Manning and her sister, Barbara, lived in one of San Francisco’s painted ladies near Golden Gate Park. This lady, a huge, rambling Victorian with peeling paint,…
Five Mini-Interviews from The Rumpus
We at The Rumpus get bored with reading the same old interviews with the same old people. So, every now and again we like to publish “mini-interviews,” our readers talking with…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #34: Robert Tumas in Conversation with Brian, his BFF
When last we heard from Brian he had gotten work as a Xerox copier mechanic in his hometown of Rochester, New York. Robert Tumas’s latest conversation with his itinerant best…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #33: A Touch of Goth in Old New York’s Little Italy
When your mother-in-law pushes aside Elizabeth Street, the acclaimed novel by Laurie Fabiano, and says “She didn’t get it right,” it’s time to pull up a chair and listen. Christina…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #32: Rebecca Steinitz in Conversation with a Chef
My husband, Sam Putnam, is the chef of a popular new restaurant, which I’m not going to name because it’s already gotten plenty of publicity. I wanted to interview him…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #31: Alex Behr in Conversation with “Eric Larson”
I met Eric Larson (a pseudonym) in a Bay Area writing workshop around ten years ago. He’s had the most intriguing job of anyone I’ve met in that often-myopic fiction-writing…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #30: Paula Whyman in Conversation with SM Shrake
Paula Whyman talks with SM Shrake about his annual witch costume in The Rumpus’s thirtieth mini-interview!
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #29: Brian Hansen in Conversation with C.W.
Three years ago I interviewed a number of friends in their mid-twenties, seemingly bright kids with no direction. I lost the digital recordings; here is all that remains from an interview…