The Rumpus Interview with Kurt Vile
We talk to indie-rock musician Kurt Vile about his recording process, life on the road, and the all-time best Dead Milkmen song.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ramona Ausubel
Our lives can be as wild or as wacky as Ramona Ausubel’s fictive worlds, but in the end, as one of her characters puts it, "Everyone wants to be alone in someone else’s heart."
The Rumpus Interview with Daisy Fried
Poet Daisy Fried talks shop about the avoidance of being a Mommy Poet, machismo, how to create a poet advice columnist, and why "women's poetry" is best compared to a tricked-out car.
Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Chester Brown
Chester Brown is an award-winning Toronto cartoonist who wrote the graphic memoir Paying For It
The Rumpus Interview with Jess Walter
Novelist and short story writer Jess Walter explores fathers and sons, addiction, creating a Statistical Abstract, finding inspiration in the grocery store, and writing from a pure place of empathy.
The Rumpus Interview with Karl Briedrick of Speck Mountain
Lyrically, it’s about longing for something to change, longing for something to happen within the context of a relationship where it hasn’t felt like anything’s been happening for a long time.
The Rumpus Interview with Elliott Holt
Writer and Rumpus contributor Elliott Holt sits down to discuss her debut novel, You Are One of Them, her preoccupation with secrets, and working in 1990s Moscow during Russia's economic transition.
Public Sex, Private Lives: The Rumpus Interview with Simone Jude
I wanted to present three complicated portraits that raise important questions, not just about what it means to be a porn performer, but what it means to be a sexually open woman
The Rumpus Interview with Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton
Discussing their collaborative book, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton tackle neighbors, sexuality, and the fetishization of pets.
The Rumpus Interview with Adam Braver
Adam Braver is a novelist, professor, and human rights activist, though not always in that order.
The Rumpus Interview with Missy Mazzoli
We talked to composer-performer Missy Mazzoli about the sometimes invisible world of new classical music, her relation to it, and what she’s doing to help to redefine what it means to be a composer in the 21st century.
The Rumpus Interview with Colum McCann
Novelist Colum McCann sits down and talks about his latest book, the musicality of voice, weaving the fictional with the historical, and the importance of failure.