Interviews Archives - Page 62 of 75

The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Barry

Irish writer Kevin Barry sits down for a chat about life in County Sligo, not knowing what your stories are about until years after you've written them, and the summer he spent in a camping trailer on a West Cork beach.

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The Rumpus Interview with Maureen Seaton

Maureen Seaton sits down to discuss queering poetry, collaborating on collections, vacillating between literary genres, and why Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic" is at the top of her credos.

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The Rumpus Interview with Stephen Dixon

The prolific Stephen Dixon sits down with The Rumpus to discuss the endings of short stories, beginning with good lines, and his evasive history with editors.

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The Rumpus Interview with Sarah McCarry

Writer Sarah McCarry chats about girl friendships, holding down multiple jobs at once, and setting her novel, a retelling of the Orpheus myth, against the backdrop of 1990s grunge-fueled Seattle.

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The Rumpus Interview with David Schickler

Writer David Schickler talks about his memoir The Dark Path, the equal pulls of religion and sex, and why having a sense of humor matters.

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The Rumpus Interview with Catherine Bush

Canadian novelist Catherine Bush discusses the powers—and lives—of accusation, the close relationship between work and character, and the role of the social circus, at home and in the developing world.

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The Rumpus Interview with Mary Kay Zuravleff

Mary Kay Zuravleff talks about the DNA of the novel, how wordplay and math-thinking have influenced her writing, and the meaning behind "the art of family life is to not take it personally."

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The Rumpus Interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt

Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt speaks to the power of syntax, and her newest collection, Headwaters—"a monument to the conscious mind's compulsion to order and interpret a chaotic world."

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The Rumpus Interview with Owen King

We sit down with Rumpus contributor Owen King to talk about his latest book, Double Feature, paying homage to movies that are unintentionally funny, and only using research that gives a story meaning.

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The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Hines

Of the estimated 1,500 people to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, only thirty-four are known to have survived. Kevin Hines is one of them.

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The Rumpus Interview with Mandy Stadtmiller

Mandy Stadtmiller, writer, comedian, and the deputy editor of xoJane, talks about promoting positivity in women's journalism, why no one gets hired because of résumés anymore, and the importance of maintaining a writing and editorial staff with differing opinions.

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The Rumpus Interview with T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle, who has now written over twenty books, talks to The Rumpus about his most recent short story collection, four decades of cooking up high-grade literary tales, the importance of performance during readings, and life at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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