The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Don Waters
"I’m sure growing up in Reno had something to do with it, but you’re right, becoming a 'writer' wasn’t necessarily on my radar. ... I sort of stumbled my way to writing."
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THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: The Original 1982 by Lori Carson
I was only starting to let myself feel what I had lost 14 years earlier, when I had reluctantly placed our third child – the only one I managed to deliver – with an adoptive family. Like Lori Carson, I was love-haunted. Unlike Carson, I had no words.
My Bad Memory: New York Movies Edition
From Raging Bull to Newsies, Adam Wilson (mis)remembers the NY movies he's seen.
The Rumpus Interview with Summer Pierre
Writer and illustrator Summer Pierre talks about the business of publishing books, no longer feeling lost to the fantasy of what it means to be a published writer, and how the experience of having her book go out of print led to pursuing her dream work.
Of Farmers and Fathers
For reasons I’ll never understand, I am my father’s rooster. My life is filled with farmers. We find our farmers where our interests are, I guess.
Make/Work Episode 12: Diane Cook
In Episode 12 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with writer Diane Cook. Cook was a producer at This American Life for years until she quit to pursue her own fiction writing.
The Rumpus Interview with Walter Kirn
Writer Walter Kirn talks about his latest book, Blood Will Out, the art of deception, interviewing himself for the New York Times, and one-upping George Clooney.
Much Ado About Something
While Affordable Care Act (ACA) opponents were muttering dire warnings of a falling sky, our troop of the uninsured hugged and cried and filled that same sky with utterances of shocked joy.
Funny Women #116: The Lady Writer’s Guide to a Successful Sex Change
Drain the bubble bath and prepare to transform the novel you’ve been toiling over for so long into a publishable, marketable piece of Women’s Fiction!
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 3
The ritual of poetic discovery is a reanimation of the whole metaphor of human dream and reason, irrationality and rationality, the ancient and the contemporary, the organic and the artifice.