The Life of the Mind: A Conversation with Elizabeth Scanlon
Elizabeth Scanlon discusses her debut full-length collection, Lonesome Gnosis, brains and trains, and poetry as prayer.
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Posts Tagged: editor
Fandom and Family: Talking with Ted Scheinman
Ted Scheinman discusses his deep-dive into Jane Austen superfan culture, Camp Austen, how the Internet has fostered fandom culture, and whether being an editor helps his writing.
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It’s All about Positionality: Talking with Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Kayleb Rae Candrilli discusses their debut collection, What Runs Over, reclaiming memory through poetry, and the political act of being happy.
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Everything as Story: A Conversation with Kendra Levin
Kendra Levin discusses her new book, The Hero Is You, her influential mentors, her career in publishing, and the creative struggles that led her to put writing aside for many years.
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The Rumpus Interview with Terry McDonell
Terry McDonell talks about his new memoir The Accidental Life and his career in the magazine business, which spans the beginning of New Journalism through the digital revolution.
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The Rumpus Interview with Max Porter
Max Porter discusses his debut novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, literary genres, and the changing roles of editors.
...moreThank You, Editors
For Hazlitt, Steven Price writes a beautiful elegy to his former editor, Ellen Seligman. Seligman and Price collaborated on Price’s By Gaslight, published in August, five months after Seligman’s passing. Editing, at its highest level, is surely a creative act. I don’t know that Ellen would have used such language; she told me once that […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Tara Laskowski
I realized that I’m interested in how people change when something terrible happens to someone else.
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The Rumpus Interview with Terese Svoboda
Poet Terese Svoboda talks about her biography of the socialist-anarchist firebrand and modernist poet Lola Ridge, Anything That Burns You, and remembers a time when the political was printed in newspapers.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Vivian Lee
As an editor of color, one advantage I have is that writers of color are comfortable knowing I’m not asking for edits to artificially enhance or to cover up their race. It’s not weird to me that their characters look like them.
...moreThe Submitting Editor
At The Review Review, Allison Linville offers some tips on submitting based on her time working as a managing editor for a major literary magazine.
...moreHow to Become
Mensah Demary, Associate Web Editor for the new and exciting online literary outlet Catapult, shares his story of how he got to be where he is through a series of hilarious and depressing montages, with an overarching theme worth internalizing: “I don’t have the answers; I only have my life.”
...moreThe Editor as an Explorer
Over at Electric Literature, John Freeman reveals what’s behind being an editor and the magic in finding fresh, compelling writing voices.
...moreHow Emily Bell Became an Editor
I knew I didn’t want to be a writer, but I thought I might want to work with writers and with brilliant minds who changed the way I thought about the world. Callie Collins interviews Emily Bell for Midnight Breakfast about her road to becoming an editor.
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The Rumpus Interview with George Hodgman
Editor and author George Hodgman talks about his new memoir, Bettyville, what makes for a good memoir, and returning to his hometown of Paris, Missouri from New York to take care of his aging mother.
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