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The Subconscious Repository of Weird Things: A Conversation with Ananda Lima

Poetry allows me to say the thing without a million conjectures. It leaves a lot of space and allows words to resonate and connect without me having to take you there . . . because of the conventions of poetry, I can say things that are understood as a gate to the truth.

Looking for Trouble: A Conversation with Maud Newton

Are these stories true? Did my great grandfather really kill someone with a hay hook? Was my other great grandfather really a communist?

Doomscrolling in Novel Form: A Conversation with John Elizabeth Stintzi

You'll really love this book if you have the opinion that reality is weird. And if you think, like me, that the fact that so many people believe that there’s even a steady thing that we could call reality is fucking insane. If that's who you are, this book is definitely for you.

Witches, Mushrooms, Collective Voices, and Catalan: A Conversation with Irene Solà and Mara Faye Lethem

Remember the little green dolls in Toy Story that live in a vending machine, the claw is their god and they go “The Claw!” and cower away? I imagined the mushrooms in the same way, except their claw is the rain.

Solace in Writing About the End of the World: An Interview with Mike Meginnis

The most beautiful thing I can think of to do with one’s life is to write a novel, even as I feel really ambivalent about the utility of doing it, about the value to myself and to society and to my local community of having written a book.

Make the Story Work, and the Politics Will Look After Itself: The Rumpus Interview with Tony Birch

It is easy to be awed by Tony Birch’s prolific body of work—his dynamic career ranging from firefighter to professor—his deep love of family and heritage, and his humility. He…

I Write to Make Myself Unrecognized: A Conversation with Shangyang Fang

In Buddhism, there is always an expression on this and that, and the yes and no of this and that. For example, the other side of the river is a metaphor of death, in contrast to this life, this side. I hope that poetry is a way to shatter the border.

The Community Aspect of Poetry: A Conversation with H. Melt

I think poetry lends itself to community and getting to know people intimately. Poetry requires vulnerability.

Reading Fiction As an Act of Resistance: A Conversation with Azar Nafisi

We need fiction because fiction does not polarize. Fiction is based on understanding over judgment.

Catalyst Events and a Time for Poetry: An Interview with Charles Flowers

Consider: My coming out story has been told, but coming out is constantly changing and shifting and needs retelling, and each telling has value for a particular audience.

How Wonderful It Is to Be So Moved: A Conversation with Sarah Krasnostein

The most truthful we can be in a factual genre is to doubt the attainability of fact at all.

Cigarettes and Wittgenstein: The Rumpus Interview with Sean Thor Conroe

The [novel's] main question would be, How does a man stuck in resentment and anger at others and the world, who lacks a sense of belonging and sense of his usefulness in the world, find his way out of that?

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