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The Rumpus Interview with Chris Castellani

Novelist Chris Castellani talks about avoiding sentimentality around the immigrant experience, letting go of the people and characters you love, and how he wrote three books while also running the writing center Grub Street.

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The Rumpus Interview with Constance Hale

Constance Hale, who has been called “Marion the Librarian on a Harley, or E. B. White on acid," talks verbs, literacy in the Digital Age, and why "it’s wrongheaded to think that the path to glory is only through standard English."

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The Rumpus Interview with Octavio Solis

Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Octavio Solis sits down for a chat about night terrors, universal storytelling, and finding a home with the Magic Theatre of San Francisco.

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The Rumpus Interview with Natalie Dee

Cartoonist Natalie Dee's eponymous website, NatalieDee.Com, has consistently ranked among the most highly trafficked comic sites on the Internet since its debut. Her comic panels are equally hilarious and dark

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The Rumpus Interview with Peter Aguero

Master storyteller and Moth regular Peter Aguero talks about family dysfunction, fighting with hammers, and how not to bomb onstage.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jill McDonough

Poet Jill McDonough chats about teaching in prisons, controversial art exhibits, getting lost in research, and writing fifty sonnets about American executions.

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Death of A Bad Girl – A Life in Letters: The Rumpus Interview with Daphne Gottlieb

Daphne Gottlieb talks about Dear Dawn, a collection of letters written by Aileen Wuornos to her childhood friend from prison prior to her execution in 2002 .

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The Rumpus Interview with Rosie Schaap

Rosie Schaap discusses Drinking with Men, her love of poetry, her intriguing family members, and what she would do with her life if she weren’t a writer.

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The Rumpus Interview with Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians

Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians, the co-founders of Melville House, share the history behind their thriving independent press—once earmarked as "a disaster in the making" and now celebrating its 10th anniversary.

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The Rumpus Interview with Tom Kaczynski

Publisher of Uncivilized Books and comics artist Tom Kaczynski opens up about primal motifs, utopian thinking, and growing up with comic books in Poland.

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The Rumpus Interview with Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel

Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel, the co-editors of Recommended Reading, discuss the ins and outs of editing an ambitious literary project.

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The Rumpus Interview with Zadie Smith

For our first interview of 2013, we sit down with the incomparable Zadie Smith for a thoughtful chat about identity, the pleasure of reading, and how to write honestly about the state of humanity.

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