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From the Archive: The Rumpus Interview with Jade Sharma

  • Catherine Cusick
  • May 20, 2022
Jade Sharma discusses her first novel Problems, the complicated feelings that came with debuting to rave reviews, and her writing and editing processes.
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Like a Kid Again

  • Brandon Hicks
  • October 4, 2020
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Matthew Salesses

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • August 19, 2020
Matthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.
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Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • April 27, 2020
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #76: Chris Tusa

  • Steven Petite
  • March 23, 2017
Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Chris Tusa’s second novel, In the City of Falling Stars (Livingston Press, September 2016), tells a tale of paranoia and intrigue. Maurice Delahoussaye witnesses dead birds…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #71: Kris D’Agostino

  • Mickie Meinhardt
  • February 16, 2017
In Kris D’Agostino’s second novel, The Antiques, he returns to familiar forms: A dysfunctional family whose members are in various stages of arrested development; a generational home in upstate New…
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The Rumpus Interview with Mila Jaroniec

  • Luke Wiget
  • February 15, 2017
Mila Jaroniec talks about her debut novel Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover,” writing autofiction, the surprising similarity between selling sex toys and selling books, and the impact of having a baby on editing.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Rosalie Moffett

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 7, 2017
Rosalie Moffett discusses her new collection June in Eden, writing humor in poetry, using contemporary references, and trying to understand the world.
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The Rumpus Interview with Leland Cheuk

  • Lyz Lenz
  • September 16, 2016
Leland Cheuk discusses his novel The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, dark humor, cancer, morally corrupt characters, and his mother.
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This Week in Short Fiction: Goodnight, Beautiful Women by Anna Noyes

  • Claire Burgess
  • June 3, 2016
[Noyes's] stories are nuanced and unapologetic, revealing the shadow sides of women and girls in all their wild and terrible glory.
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