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.
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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?
Joy in Persistence: Siri Hustvedt on Writing and the Need for Adaptive Grandiosity
Everyone, even the most tell-all writer, withholds something in the interests of protecting herself or others, but my interest in my own stories has always been to use them to illustrate larger stories about the culture . . .
A Devotee of the Interconnectedness of Time: A Conversation with Ariel Delgado Dixon
"When I teach, my biggest hobby horse is specificity . . . Even boring people are specifically boring."
Revelation is Absurd: A Conversation with Adrian Nathan West
...we live in a culture that’s at once euphemistic and profoundly hyperbolic, where people try as hard as possible to not actually be saying anything so that they can never be accused of holding any position. Whereas it’s important to me, to talk about what people really do, what they really feel.
The Woman in My Head: A Conversation with Emily Maloney
There’s a lot of rules or feelings about how writing a book should be, but very little of that actually corresponds with reality.
Celebrate Everything: A Conversation with Kim Fu
An interview with Kim Fu about writing the collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century.
A Chorus of Voices: Talking with Daphne Palasi Andreades
Daphne Palasi Andreades discusses her debut novel, BROWN GIRLS.
Bringing My Regular Bullshit to It: The Rumpus Interview with Dave Housley
Talking with Dave Housley about his novel THE OTHER ONES, available later this month.
A Cosmic Wade Through Uncertainty: Talking with Sequoia Nagamatsu
Talking with Sequoia Nagamatsu about HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK.
Learning the Hard Way: A Conversation with Kate Baer
Kate Baer discusses her new poetry collection, HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL.