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."
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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.
The Rumpus Interview with Nelly Reifler
Writer Nelly Reifler talks about her latest book, Elect H. Mouse State Judge, the bodies of characters, weird writing exercises, and revisiting one's childhood.
The Rumpus Interview with Eli Brown
Novelist Eli Brown talks about his creative process, the relationship between writing and visual art, how to correctly define a "pirate," and his past days as a legitimate martial arts expert.
The Rumpus Interview with Nina Schuyler
Nina Schuyler discusses her latest novel, The Translator, and delves into its narrative of missed meanings, severed connections, and self-renewal.
The Rumpus Interview with Kelly Braffet and Lisa Lutz
Megan Abbott convenes a virtual roundtable with writers Kelly Braffet and Lisa Lutz to tackle whether we're in a post-genre literary world, and discuss, among other things, bank heists, bitch-slapping, and French rats.