The Rumpus Interview with Ted Travelstead
Ted Travelstead is an incredible storyteller, the curator of a glorious beard, and one of the most naturally hilarious people I know.
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The Rumpus Interview with Matthew Salesses
Writer and Rumpus contributor Matthew Salesses discusses the form of flash fiction, the selective nature of adoption narratives, and how to confront fears of parenting.
The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Cody Epstein
Novelist Jennifer Cody Epstein discusses her new book, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, and explores representations of morality, how to address public acts of political violence, and the ramifications of war.
The Rumpus Interview with Tamas Dobozy
Writer Tamas Dobozy discusses the art of the short story, writing about Hungarian history, and why he still favors being published in literary journals above all else.
The Rumpus Interview with Jim Gavin
Jim Gavin is a talented writer who allows his stories the room they need to be told. These are stories that are intelligent and quiet and moving, stories that take up time and space in satisfying ways.
The Rumpus Interview with Dan Kennedy
While many readers are familiar with the melancholy persona he’s adopted—and despite having written a new novel about a life falling apart—author Dan Kennedy is finally ready to admit something to the lit crowd, here and now: he loves mainstream American comedy...
The Rumpus Interview with Mark O’Connell
Mark O'Connell, author of the first original e-book from The Millions, talks about why he is interested in and troubled by what he calls this “frictionless sharing and flattening of affect,” particularly when it comes to what Internet inside jokes have nicknamed Epic Fails.
The Rumpus Interview with David Shields
Essayist and lauded thinker David Shields talks about his new book, whether it’s necessary to draw sharp distinctions between literary forms, and his celebration of literature that collapses the distance between the artist’s life and work.
The Rumpus Interview with Jesse Sykes
The first thing you notice about Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter is Sykes’s voice. It’s a stunning blend of contradictions, cutting and vulnerable, breathy and scratchy, enigmatic and bare.
The Rumpus Interview with Joe Mozingo
Journalist Joe Mozingo digs deep into his ancestral history to uncover the origin behind his surname, and discovers it's one of the few African names to survive not only the Middle Passage, but the history of American slavery itself.
The Rumpus Interview with Tom Reiss
Journalist and biographer Tom Reiss sits down and explores the idea that, "however obscure his subjects might be, he [is] a writer first and foremost, obsessed with getting the details right while crafting a story that could propel even a reluctant reader across unfamiliar terrain."
The Rumpus Interview with Dmitry Samarov
Dmitry's spontaneous cab drawings had such great composition and confidence. You could almost feel his grimace in so many of his lines.