essays
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Michele Filgate
Michele Filgate discusses WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT.
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Being in the Room: Talking with Kendra Allen
Kendra Allen discusses her debut essay collection, WHEN YOU LEARN THE ALPHABET.
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Story by Story: Talking with Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl discusses her forthcoming debut memoir-in-essays, LATE MIGRATIONS.
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Navigating by the Right Stars: A Conversation with Briallen Hopper
Briallen Hopper discusses her debut collection, HARD TO LOVE: ESSAYS AND CONFESSIONS.
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Through the Translator’s Lens: Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough’s Objects of Affection
For Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, language provides a stronger connection with the past than nationality alone.
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The Beautiful Mundane Is Everywhere: Talking with Ross Gay
Ross Gay discusses his forthcoming essay collection, THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS.
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The Internal and the External: A Conversation with Wendy Willis
Wendy Willis discusses her new essay collection, THESE ARE STRANGE TIMES, MY DEAR.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #157: Sarah Viren
”There’s a danger to the word [’mine’] that I find really rich and exciting.”
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Off the Interstate, into Real Experience: Talking with Erica Trabold
Erica Trabold discusses her debut essay collection, FIVE PLOTS.
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Straddling the Divide: Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Interior States
The entire collection is suffused by an aching awareness of absence and an obsession with the indelible markings of the past.
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My Nebraska is Only One Nebraska: Erica Trabold’s Five Plots
Five Plots wades into the enigmatic relationships between family and memory, where truth is seemingly as placid as the Platte River but re-examination causes a re-route.
