The Rumpus Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward, author of the memoir Men We Reaped, speaks candidly about handling grief, exploring place, and "the fragile balance of writing accurately without perpetuating stereotypes and archetypes."
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THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER
When Eleanor Friedberger (one half of The Fiery Furnaces) penned her solo debut, Last Summer, she didn’t show it to anyone until it was finished. Now that she has released…
The Rumpus Interview with Jesse Michaels
Jesse Michaels, former member of the punk bands Operation Ivy, Big Rig, and Common Rider, chats about his first novel, the thin line between fact and fiction, and how to turn off the voices in your head that scream "I'm nuts!" and "I'm shit!"
The Rumpus Interview with Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin talks about her new story collection, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses, why she never says "ohhh" at poetry readings, and how desire and dread like to sleep in the same bed.
The Rumpus Interview with Tom Kealey
Writer Tom Kealey sits down for a chat about assembling a short story collection, adolescence, and the trickiness of even saying the words "feminist perspective."
Open the Pod Bay Doors, MAL: The Rumpus Interview with Lori Emerson
"I do think that diagnosing and fixing problems with our machines that are twenty or even thirty years old is similar to fixing an old VW Bug—the architecture is simple enough and open enough that, given enough spare parts, there's almost always a way to fix them."
The Rumpus Interview with Victoria Chang
Poet Victoria Chang talks about the process behind writing her newest collection, The Boss, what it's like to balance a nine-to-five office job with your craft, and intimidatingly good-looking crowds at small-press poetry readings.
The Rumpus Interview with Adelle Waldman
Adelle Waldman talks to us about how to write "a convincing book about the inner life of a self-consciously intellectual male," tackling the New York literary world in fiction, and love affairs with Brooklyn.
The Rumpus Interview with Gregory Rabassa
Responsible for introducing American readers to One Hundred Years of Solitude and a large portion of the Latin American literary canon, award-winning translator Gregory Rabassa discusses the state of translation today and much more.
The Rumpus Interview with Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash talks shop about writing short stories, why one person's "unlikeable" character may be another's "lovable," and what makes writers dangerous.
The Rumpus Interview with Audrey Petty
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises.
The Rumpus Interview with Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Memoirist, playwright, and short story writer Saïd Sayrafiezadeh discusses his choice to link stories together using an unnamed war, writing without a game plan, and the stasis in his own life that ultimately took shape in the lives of his characters.