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The Climate of Feeling: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk

  • Sruti Islam
  • December 27, 2019
Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #202: Michelle Steinbeck

  • Nina Moog
  • December 19, 2019
“I wanted every reader to see her or his own story.”
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Just Do Something: Talking with Sam Farahmand

  • Luke Wiget
  • November 29, 2019
Sam Farahmand discusses his debut novel, CHIMERO.
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Colonialism as Alien Invasion: Cadwell Turnbull’s The Lesson

  • Peter Mack
  • November 27, 2019
What if the arrival of alien life wasn’t the future, but just another recapitulation of our bloody past?
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Love Story as Case Study: A Conversation with Rheea Mukherjee

  • Martha Grover
  • November 27, 2019
Rheea Mukherjee discusses her debut novel, THE BODY MYTH.
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A Story of Memory: Machine by Susan Steinberg

  • Justin Brouckaert
  • November 20, 2019
The narrator is trapped here, in the summer her family and her life fell apart.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #199: Stuart M. Ross

  • Andy Mozina
  • November 7, 2019
“Ty is, you know, tied in a knot. On a very old shoe.”
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A Beautiful Silver Screen: Amanda Lee Koe’s Delayed Rays of a Star

  • Amelia Possanza
  • November 6, 2019
[W]hat lies beneath the arcing paths of these stars, fueling and frustrating them?
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #194: Sarah Rose Etter

  • M. Randal O’Wain
  • September 26, 2019
“[H]opefully, the book is surreal but also universal.”
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Everyone You Love Is Broke: The Not Wives by Carley Moore

  • Sandie Friedman
  • September 18, 2019
How do you go on when the losses seem unbearable?
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal and Excerpt from Home Making

  • Lee Matalone
  • September 16, 2019
An exclusive cover reveal + excerpt from Lee Matalone's debut, HOME MAKING.
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No One Can Be Saved: A Conversation with Amanda Goldblatt

  • Diane Cook
  • September 3, 2019
Amanda Goldblatt discusses her debut novel, HARD MOUTH.
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