What to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2021
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Ways to Love, and Be Loved: Talking with Joy Ladin
Joy Ladin discusses the new edition of THE BOOK OF ANNA.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Felicia Rose Chavez
“Listening is the first and most important step to maintaining a storytelling tradition.”
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Mariana Oliver and Julia Sanches
Author Mariana Oliver and translator Julia Sanches discuss MIGRATORY BIRDS.
Other Stories, Other Lives: Life among the Terranauts by Caitlin Horrocks
By the time the television cameras arrive, the rest of the world may be surprised, but we’re not.
The Alternative Hypotheses: A Conversation with Brandon Taylor
Brandon Taylor discusses his new story collection, FILTHY ANIMALS.
Hopeful Acts: Talking with Krys Malcolm Belc
Krys Malcolm Belc discusses his debut memoir, THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD.
To Set Asunder: The Separation and Synthesis of Tiana Nobile’s Cleave
A word becomes a reckoning, a reconciling of contradiction.
Subverting the Wild West: A Conversation with Anna North
Anna North discusses her new novel, OUTLAWED.
Coat Full of Pockets: A Story Collection Roundtable
With Dantiel W. Moniz, Kimberly King Parsons, Mary South, Xuan Juliana Wang, and Ashley Wurzbacher.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Meg Pokrass
“The book is about the complicated problem of loving.”
The Reconstruction of Derrida: Peter Salmon’s An Event, Perhaps
The key insight is that names, and indeed all boundaries, involve a hierarchy.