Life Is Odd: A Conversation with Dinty W. Moore
Dinty W. Moore discusses his new essay collection, TO HELL WITH IT.
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Posts Tagged: essay collection
A Myriad Reckoning: Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature
The collective reimagining in Seismic calls for literary revolution.
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The Fluidity of Language and Identity: Melissa Faliveno’s Tomboyland
When was the first time you remember seeing yourself in a book you were reading?
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Making It Through: A Conversation with Kelly J. Baker
Kelly J. Baker discusses her new essay collection, FINAL GIRL.
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The Complex Disability Representation We Need: Rebekah Taussig’s Sitting Pretty
What Taussig does, then, is ground these ideas in reality through her own lived experiences.
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A Chorus of Voices: Talking with Melissa Faliveno
Melissa Faliveno discusses her debut essay collection, TOMBOYLAND.
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Through a Prism: A Conversation with Sarah Kasbeer
Sarah Kasbeer discusses her debut essay collection, A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN.
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No Story Ever Really Ends: Talking with Amy Long
Amy Long discusses her debut book, CODEPENDENCE.
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A Poetic Smorgasbord: A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Each sentence is calculated; each word explodes.
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Living Memory Keepers: Talking with Alicia Elliott
Alicia Elliott discusses her essay collection, A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND.
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On Empathy, Complexity, and Whimsy: Talking with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil discusses her new book, WORLD OF WONDERS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn discusses her debut essay collection, A FISH GROWING LUNGS.
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Moments of Reawakening: Talking with Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong discusses MINOR FEELINGS: AN ASIAN AMERICAN RECKONING.
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Circuitous Journeys: Talking with Sejal Shah
Sejal Shah discusses her debut essay collection, THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE.
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Abstracting Yourself: A Conversation with Robin Hemley
Robin Hemley discusses his new essay collection, BORDERLINE CITIZEN.
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Laughing through Life: A Conversation with Samantha Irby
Samantha Irby discusses her new essay collection, WOW, NO THANK YOU.
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All These Ostriches: A Conversation with R. Eric Thomas
R. Eric Thomas discusses his debut memoir-in-essays, HERE FOR IT.
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A Decade of Surface over Significance: Sleeveless by Natasha Stagg
A former editor at V, Stagg is no stranger to the slippage between life and editorial.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #205: Beth Alvarado
“For me, when I write nonfiction, my mind moves from the outside to the inside.”
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At Home and Not at Home Everywhere: A Conversation with Xu Xi
Xu Xi discusses her new essay collection, THIS FISH IS FOWL.
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Energizing the Choir: A Conversation with Lindy West
Lindy West discusses her new essay collection, THE WITCHES ARE COMING.
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Everyday Ferocity: Kathleen Hale’s Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker
Throughout the collection, Hale speaks with an assured, accessible voice.
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The Precipice of Possibility: Leslie Jamison’s Make It Scream, Make It Burn
This thrill that comes with being on the precipice of possibility runs rampant throughout Make It Scream, Make It Burn.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Emily Arnason Casey
Emily Arnason Casey discusses her debut essay collection, MADE HOLY.
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A Rope to Grab in the Chaos: Talking with Esmé Weijun Wang
Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her debut essay collection, THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS.
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A Sense of Scale: Talking with Jia Tolentino
JIa Tolentino discusses her debut essay collection, TRICK MIRROR.
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A Place for Magic, a Place for Joy: Talking with Keah Brown
Keah Brown discusses her debut essay collection, THE PRETTY ONE.
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Finding the Inside Story: A Conversation with Paul Crenshaw
Paul Crenshaw discusses his debut essay collection, THIS ONE WILL HURT YOU.
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The Past Is Living: Jennifer Militello’s Knock Wood
Militello chooses cadence over chronology to show how moments flow into each other and through us.
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The Brain Wants What It Wants: Talking with Elisa Gabbert
Elisa Gabbert discusses her newest book, THE WORD PRETTY.
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