Interviews
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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Annie M. Sprinkle
Being a whore was great preparation for being an artist.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sandra Bernhard
In an exclusive interview, The Rumpus sits down with the very funny, very feminist Sandra Bernhard to talk about comedy, mothers, life on the road, and, of course, San Francisco, where she’ll be performing this week.
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The Rumpus Interview with Maria Konnikova
Writer Maria Konnikova explores the mechanisms behind how a sharp mind works, through an investigation of one of literature’s premier duos—Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Watson.
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The Rumpus Interview with Denise Duhamel
Poet Denise Duhamel talks about form, inspiration sparked by pole-dancing dolls and movies, and the art of constructing prose poems to fit on Venetian blinds.
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The Rumpus Interview with Luis Negrón
Puerto Rican writer, journalist, editor, and queer activist Luis Negrón talks about his first collection to appear in English, working with translator Suzanne Jill Levine, and writing about people who live on the margins of the margins.
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The Rumpus Interview with Miracle Jones
Miracle Jones discusses all of his various endeavors and how he envisions the future of digital publishing.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ben Greenman
Humor and experimental fiction—charting the meaning of charts, playing with ideas like a slippage between the gears of perception and reality—have been Ben Greenman’s stock in trade.
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THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH OLOF ARNALDS
Iceland’s Ólöf Arnalds (cousin to contemporary classical wunderkind Olafur Arnalds) is only in her early 30’s, yet has already charted an impressive career path that is only gaining traction with the release of her latest full-length, Sudden Elevation.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Smokler
Reading is a wild act of daring and risk. Reading a book, imagining the world different than how it is where you’re currently standing, is a great psychological, social risk.
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The Rumpus Interview with Steven Amsterdam
Steven Amsterdam’s newest work, What The Family Needed, features a range of voices and perspectives, which will be no surprise to readers of his previous book, or to anyone who’s had a glance at his eclectic C.V.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ben Yagoda
Writer and journalist Ben Yagoda addresses today’s recurring writing problems, how to be a sympathetic editor, and why it’s nice to play for Team Yagoda.
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The Rumpus Interview with Peter Rock
Peter Rock discusses his fascination with the Church Universal and Triumphant, the evolution of his latest book, The Shelter Cycle, and writing well by getting deeply confused.