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The Genius and the Nobody: Lynne Tillman’s Men and Apparitions

  • Nicole Miller
  • July 5, 2018
Make it new, the modernists said. But how to rebuild the living body?
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Katia D. Ulysse

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 20, 2017
Katia D. Ulysse discusses her forthcoming novel, Mouths Don't Speak, the importance of religion and music in the novel and in Haitian culture, and why Haiti will always be “home.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jon McGregor

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • November 22, 2017
Jon McGregor discusses his newest novel, Reservoir 13, his writing process, and why he chose not to sidestep the "missing girl" trope.
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On Searching for Honesty in Writing: An Interview with Blake Nelson

  • Jesse Sposato
  • August 11, 2017
Blake Nelson discusses his new book, Boy, letting his characters find their own fates, and possibly, maybe, being just the right amount of famous.
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The Rumpus Interview with Patrick Ryan

  • Judy Chicurel
  • December 30, 2016
Patrick Ryan discusses his new collection The Dream Life of Astronauts, the “bad old days,” and the human need to believe that everything will turn out okay in the end (even when we know it won’t).
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The Rumpus Interview with Lee Clay Johnson

  • Maria Anderson
  • October 26, 2016
Lee Clay Johnson discusses his novel Nitro Mountain, growing up with bluegrass musician parents, and what people are capable of under the right set of circumstances.
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The Rumpus Interview with Brian Booker

  • Ben Hoffman
  • October 14, 2016
Brian Booker discusses his debut collection Are You Here For What I’m Here For?, giving characters strange and unusual names, and sleeping sickness.
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Remembering Killed-Off Characters

  • Amanda Hildebrand
  • August 11, 2016
In an epic confessional letter at Lit Hub, author Stuart Nadler mourns all the characters he’s abandoned, maimed, and murdered for the sake of the grueling writing process. These lost creations…
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In Conversation with Elizabeth Strout

  • Stephanie Bento
  • August 10, 2016
I love all my characters; every single person I write about, I love. So as I write them, I don’t care how badly they misbehave, because they are who they…
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • July 15, 2016
It’s July, and the summer issues of literary magazines are rolling off both the physical and cyber presses, including Virginia Quarterly Review, which this week shared a story from its…
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Who Are You Writing For?

  • Roxie Pell
  • January 26, 2016
In the American imagination the black woman, whether light skinned or dark, is already a sexualized entity, a character upon which so many stereotypes are projected. But as a black…
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Influencing Writing by Reading

  • Ian MacAllen
  • January 12, 2016
Reading is an important part of developing as a writer. But what happens when all the books and authors we read are a homogenous group of white males? Non-white, non-male…
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