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Mini-Interviews

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

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #28: Alex Behr in Conversation with “The Fugitive”

  • Alex Behr
  • September 7, 2010
Dave “The Fugitive” Jansen, thirty, is a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter with Oregon’s Team Quest Fight Club. Our talks took place prior to his World Extreme Cage Fighting…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #27: Chris Graham in Conversation with Aaron Wendland

  • Chris Graham
  • August 24, 2010
Aaron Wendland is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he works on Heidegger and reads widely in the history of philosophy. Originally from Canada, Aaron…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #26: Alex Behr in Conversation with Lucinda X

  • Alex Behr
  • August 9, 2010
The last time I saw Lucinda was around July 4, 2003. Marching around with sparklers in her back yard, drinking beer and laughing, she showed no ill-effects of being a…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #25: Chris Graham in Conversation in a Syrian Taxi

  • Chris Graham
  • July 30, 2010
Mohaned works at a small hotel in Palmyra, a desert town in northeast Syria. On the side, he helps a friend pitch taxi rides to tourists. (Mohaned speaks Arabic and…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #24: Richard “The Ballbuster” Butterfield in Conversation with Cynthia Bregova

  • Cynthia Valdez
  • July 28, 2010
I know very little about Richard. I know that he is from Rhode Island, Jewish, has lived in Puebla, Mexico for twenty years, lives and owns an antiques store with his…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #23: Katherine Tanney in Conversation with John Langford

  • Katherine Tanney
  • July 12, 2010
John grew up in Hong Kong, the son of a missionary. Before becoming a commercial photographer he was a radio disc jockey, oil field roustabout, pizza delivery guy, and funeral…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #22: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Alex Smith

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • July 7, 2010
Alex Smith lives in New York City, where he works as a homepage editor at MSN and as a freelance contributor for the New Yorker. During the interview, Alex drank…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #21: Dave Doyle in Conversation with Ronnie Lucero

  • Dave Doyle
  • July 6, 2010
Ronnie Lucero and I work together at Nelson’s Meats, a small, independently owned meat market in Albuquerque’s South Valley. He is what used to be called a ‘butcher.’ Nowadays they…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #20: Martha Burzynski in Conversation with Michaela Drapes

  • Martha Burzynski
  • July 5, 2010
Michaela Drapes and Shannon Robertson write the irreverent knitting blog Yarneteria. They create bespoke hand knit garments and accessories for discerning gentlemen at Kindling and Tinder where they believe you should…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #19: Karen Duffin in Conversation with Laura Stevens

  • Karen Duffin
  • July 2, 2010
Laura Stevens has great hair. The best hair in the room, 94.3% of the time. It makes me jealous. She is the only non-adopted child of her parents’ six children. …
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #18: Paula Whyman in Conversation with Tim Guthrie

  • Paula Whyman
  • July 1, 2010
Paula: Tim Guthrie is an internationally exhibited and award-winning multimedia artist. He is also the best movie-dialogue-reciter I have ever met, which endeared him to me immediately. We met at…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #17: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Joseph Sullivan

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • June 30, 2010
Joseph Sullivan works as a user experience designer for a large trade association in Chicago. “A user experience designer,” he said, “used to be called an information architect. Someone recently…
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