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Wisdom Is a Double-Edged Sword: Talking with Jay Baron Nicorvo

  • Beverly Parayno
  • August 21, 2017
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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The Rumpus Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen

  • Beverly Parayno
  • March 8, 2017
Viet Than Nguyen discusses his story collection The Refugees, growing up in a Vietnamese community in San Jose in the 1980s, and the power of secondhand memories.
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The Rumpus Interview with Joshua Davis

  • Beverly Parayno
  • January 26, 2015
Joshua Davis talks about his new book, Spare Parts (now a movie playing all across the United States), backwards running, journalism, and entering the US National Arm Wrestling Championship.
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The Rumpus Interview with Morris Ratner

  • Beverly Parayno
  • August 19, 2014
Trailblazing lawyer and professor Morris Ratner speaks to the Rumpus about the historic lawsuits against banks that profited from the Holocaust.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #51: Pet Psychic Marla Steele

  • Beverly Parayno
  • April 8, 2014
Each year on my dog Isso’s birthday, I give him the gift of voice: a reading with pet psychics/animal communicators who “talk” to Isso about his likes and dislikes, requests, preferences and physical ailments, if any.
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The Rumpus Interview with Frank H. Wu

  • Beverly Parayno
  • July 30, 2013
Frank H. Wu, the Chancellor and Dean of UC Hastings College of the Law, talks about writing, race, assimilation, his hometown of Detroit, and the similarities between the Vincent Chin and Trayvon Martin cases.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #44: Beverly Parayno in Conversation with Gregory

  • Beverly Parayno
  • July 15, 2011
Gregory is an eighty-two-year-old Russian Jewish man who works across the aisle from me at a nonprofit community center in Palo Alto. I’d always been curious about why he was…
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The Rumpus Interview with Yiyun Li

  • Beverly Parayno
  • January 14, 2009
I first interviewed Yiyun Li in 2005 when she won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, among many other awards, for her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.…
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The Rumpus Long Interview With Tamim Ansary

  • Beverly Parayno
  • December 24, 2008
Tamim Ansary is the author of West of Kabul, East of New York and the forthcoming book Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. He is also…
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