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You’re in the Hands of a Pro: The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot by Jack Driscoll

The characters in this collection frequently daydream about time. Children and teens want to speed it up so life can start. Grown-ups ask time to slow, or rewind to get some of it back.

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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from River Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts

But Aster was all there. She felt herself existing.

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Magical Systems and Fusion Reactors: Rivers Solomon Discusses An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon discusses her debut novel, the importance of writing the body into a story, and more.

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What Appears to Be Fiction: A Conversation with Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss discusses her new novel Forest Dark, provoking questions about reality with her work, and trusting readers to think for themselves.

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What to Read When It’s Time for Sports

Just a "heads up" (as they say in the sports world): this isn't your average sports list.

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Imagination Is Like Grace: Meghan O’Rourke’s Sun in Days

A poem doesn’t bring the dead back to life, but a memory has a touch of immortality: it’s a sort of recompense—forever isn’t exactly a lie, even if it’s not completely true.

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“The Book I Said I Would Never Write”: Talking with Karolina Ramqvist

Karolina Ramqvist discusses The White City, her first novel to be translated to English, and the idea of a writer's persona out in the world versus a just being a writer, writing.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #102: Max Winter

Winter’s writing seems effortless. It’s sad, enthralling, at times hilarious stuff.

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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Faith Adiele

Faith Adiele discusses what it means to be a good literary citizen, the importance of decolonizing travel writing, and how she wants to change the way Black stories are being told.

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Ward’s Mississippi Is Our Mississippi: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Capturing the Delta in harrowing detail, Ward takes readers on a journey from her own home of the Gulf Coast to the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

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An Eerie Prescience: Talking with Joyce Carol Oates

Author Joyce Carol Oates discusses how the political climate affected the writing of her latest novel, A Book of American Martyrs, how she uses Twitter, and why predictions are a waste of time.

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What to Read When You’re Thinking about Florida

In celebration of our Floridian friends and family, we've compiled a list of great books that take place in, engage with, or otherwise visit the "Sunshine state."

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