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experimental fiction

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Down the Rabbit Hole: Eugene Lim’s Search History

  • Chloe Pfeiffer
  • December 22, 2021
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

  • Kristine Brown
  • October 29, 2021
Jon Chaiim McConnell discusses his new novella, THRUM.
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A Space to Include the Excess: Talking with Janice Lee

  • Melissa Matthewson
  • September 13, 2021
Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
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Always the Story First: A Conversation with Jenny Bhatt

  • Madhushree Ghosh
  • September 28, 2020
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

  • Audra Kerr Brown
  • September 18, 2020
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

  • Curtis Smith
  • April 28, 2017
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

  • Justin Eells
  • April 29, 2016
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

  • Heather Partington
  • December 27, 2015
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

  • Michelle Vider
  • November 23, 2015
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…
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The Greatest Experimentalist You’ve Never Heard Of

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • June 24, 2015
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…
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The Rumpus Interview with Luke B. Goebel

  • Joshua Mohr
  • January 19, 2015
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

  • Jim Ruland
  • November 14, 2014
Damien Ober discusses the Declaration of Independence, Internet viruses in the eighteenth century, and his new novel Doctor Benjamin Franklin's Dream America.
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