The Pressure and Pursuit of Desires: Talking Flash Fiction with Tommy Dean
I care deeply about these characters who decide to act and react to the conflicts and tensions around them even if they fail, especially when they fail.
Interviews
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Safety in Obscurity: An Interview with Jade Lascelles
Conversation and curiosity are essential to keeping momentum in this journey of resistance
The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses: The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Fay
Not all of us are going to heal well.
Positive Tension and Unstructured Time: A Conversation with Courtney Maum
. . . we wake up in human bodies every day and move forward with our lives, but every second of the day we’re thinking ahead, we’re thinking backward. Unfortunately, we’re rarely in the present time.
Making Magic in New York City: A Conversation with Emma Straub
I'm trying to move into my Ina Garten years. Hydrangeas. Cocktails. Let's see if I can fall into that sometime this decade. Want to come?
Reverse gentrification of the imagination: A Conversation with Cleyvis Natera
When I’m reading books that work within fantastic traditions, I find they’re able to hold more truths simultaneously and give me, as a reader, room to contemplate social justice and political issues and come to my own understanding of what’s what.
All the stuff I wish I had known: A conversation with Chloe Caldwell
We’re so quick to define queerness as who you sleep with or who you are attracted to, which I find so boring.
Everyone is a comprehensive mess: The Rumpus Interview with Robert Lopez
[Your] chosen Bermuda Triangle: the battered psyche of a man, the chosen amnesia of our society, and the resultant nausea of an era.
So Much At Risk: Talking with Christopher Soto
If I am audacious enough to imagine [my] reader, then I imagine this is a person who has never had the option to look away.
The Present in Its Most Vivid Colors: A Conversation with Ben Shattuck
What does a growth of new grass on a hillside in spring make you feel? Is it a mixture of nostalgia and hope? Or what does a distant mountain range wreathed in a crown of clouds make you feel?
Clock time has really lost all meaning: An interview with Jos Charles
Some work must be done up very close.
Bringing the Exterior into our Private Rooms: A Conversation with Victoria Chang
There’s no reason for cruelty; the joy is in the writing. I always try to remember why I started doing this thing: Because I had to. It’s not a choice for many of us writers to write, but we do have a choice about whether we’re going to be nice or not.