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Rumpus Exclusive: “Kristy’s Invisible Hand and Das Baby-Sitters Club Kapital”

  • Myriam Gurba
  • June 7, 2021
The babysitters inspired me, and Kristy’s entrepreneurial vision seemed plain yet elegant; easy-to-follow, too.
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Weird and Grotesque and Disturbing: Talking with Elizabeth Gonzalez James

  • Mary Pauline Lowry
  • February 1, 2021
Elizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
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Imposing the Life on the System: A Conversation with Eula Biss

  • Sarah Appleton Pine
  • December 14, 2020
Eula Biss discusses her new book, HAVING AND BEING HAD.
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Reality Is Absurd: Talking with Ted O’Connell

  • Aatif Rashid
  • May 29, 2020
Ted O'Connell discusses his first book, K: A NOVEL.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. #TrumpOwnsAmerica

  • Kim Wright
  • December 25, 2016
He said, "You've got to understand I would have burned down anything just to get somebody to listen to me."
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The Rumpus Interview with Imbolo Mbue

  • Nina Moog
  • December 5, 2016
Imbolo Mbue discusses her debut novel Behold the Dreamers, teaching herself how to write a novel, and the price of the American Dream.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 6): “To Elsie”

  • David Biespiel
  • November 22, 2016
Now the battle is joined. I will prosecute my part of it as a writer till the last dog dies...
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The Rumpus Interview with Gonzalo Torné

  • Linda Michel-Cassidy
  • November 21, 2016
Acclaimed Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torné discusses his first novel to be translated into English, Divorce Is in the Air, his ideal reader, and the economic crisis in Spain.
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The Night Wash Jones Won

  • Christian Douglass
  • November 17, 2016
Eighty years ago, Wash Jones appeared as a minor character in William Faulkner’s masterpiece on American identity and self-invention, Absalom, Absalom! From a craft perspective Jones was put in for…
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The Rumpus Interview with J.D. Vance

  • Tucker Coombe
  • October 28, 2016
J.D. Vance talks about his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, the perils of upward mobility, and never forgetting where you come from.
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Why Women Freelance More

  • Katie O'Brien
  • August 5, 2016
More and more people are leaving the salaried workplace for the freelance economy. But it’s not necessarily by choice; at Bitch Magazine, Sarah Grey discusses how companies and labor policy…
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jensen Beach

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • June 15, 2016
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jensen Beach about his short story collection Swallowed by the Cold, suburbia in Sweden, quiet racism, and writing a series of connected short stories.
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