The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #214: Sarah Kersey
“A poem cannot exist without form or structure, just like the human body can’t operate without a skeleton.”
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Posts Tagged: as I lay dying
What We Inherit: Talking with Chanelle Benz
Chanelle Benz discusses her debut novel, THE GONE DEAD.
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A Hard-Won Love: NOS by Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman
The child is born of them, yet is other to them; they work on behalf, and yet despite, and also against her.
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Heartbreak and Hair Dye: Talking with Amy Feltman
Amy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.
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Wisdom Is a Double-Edged Sword: Talking with Jay Baron Nicorvo
Jay Baron Nicorvo discusses his debut novel, The Standard Grand, how easy it is for civilians to forget about soldiers and veterans, and his longstanding love of animals.
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Making a Narrative in the Darkness: A Conversation with Samantha Hunt
Samantha Hunt discusses her new collection, The Dark Dark, why she became a writer, and the freeing quiet of darkness.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Jesse Lee Kercheval
I have learned to put myself, my ego, to one side and truly experience someone else’s poetry.
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Rewrite, Reboot, Remix
Rewriting the classics has become a stale and risk-averse strategy. But that shouldn’t spoil the fun of our larger culture of remixing.
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The Rumpus Interview with Christy Crutchfield
Novelist Christy Crutchfield talks about her debut, How to Catch a Coyote, world building, inspiration, icky fiction, the role of mystery, and the marathon of novel writing
...moreFaulkner’s As I Lay Dying on Film
Check out Joseph Entin’s even-handed review of James Franco’s movie adaptation of “As I Lay Dying” at LARB. Franco has tackled the über-challenging multi-perspective modernist piece where others demurred, and has come away with something worthy of examination, particularly by those already familiar with the original literary work. Franco’s adaptation of Faulkner’s novel about the […]
...moreThis here post is for the Faulkner Fans
Marco Kaye’s “As I Lay Buying” takes Faulkner’s classic backwoods family, The Bundrens, and throws them into a modern Macy’s for some Holiday shopping. What more can we say–it’s funny. And even if you didn’t like As I Lay Dying, we think you’ll like Kaye’s clever rendition.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Dylan Landis
Dylan Landis, a longtime newspaper and magazine journalist, is the author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This,
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Point of View and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Flexible First Person
We spend an enormous amount of our lives … thinking about other people, their motives, their desires and their opinions.
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