experimental fiction
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Eugene Lim’s Search History
Lim has written before about experimental fiction and the need to slough off such conventions of narrative as plot.
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Making Sure It Fits: A Conversation with Jon Chaiim McConnell
Jon Chaiim McConnell discusses his new novella, THRUM.
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A Space to Include the Excess: Talking with Janice Lee
Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
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Always the Story First: A Conversation with Jenny Bhatt
Jenny Bhatt discusses her debut story collection, EACH OF US KILLERS.
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Cutting to the Core: A Conversation with Tara Isabel Zambrano
Tara Isabel Zambrano discusses DEATH, DESIRE, AND OTHER DESTINATIONS.
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Down the Rabbit Hole of Experimental Fiction: Michael J. Seidlinger on Becoming a Reader
Michael J. Seidlinger discusses returning to House of Leaves for Ig Publishing’s “Bookmarked” series.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jedediah Berry
Author Jedediah Berry talks about interactivity in fiction, the various forms a story can take, and his goals in founding his own press.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Michael Seidlinger
The Publisher-in-Chief of Civil Coping Mechanisms and Book Reviews Editor for Electric Literature talks about his newest novel, The Strangest.
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Integrating Your Experiments
For Electric Literature, novelist Noy Holland explores what it means to label (and often dismiss) writing as “experimental.” Holland notes the subjectivity and mess inherent in language and form, and why writing that aims for clarity might sacrifice authenticity in…
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The Greatest Experimentalist You’ve Never Heard Of
She felt that this approach illuminated a fundamental truth about language: The very act of using language, she once told an interviewer, involves a ‘castration. The moment we utter a sentence, we’re leaving out a lot.’ A “nanopress” has begun…
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The Rumpus Interview with Luke B. Goebel
Luke B. Goebel talks about his experimental novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, his dark days in San Francisco, hands as blood-bags, and literary Ouija boards.
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The Rumpus Interview with Damien Ober
Damien Ober discusses the Declaration of Independence, Internet viruses in the eighteenth century, and his new novel Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America.