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Queer, Magicked Reality: A Conversation with JD Scott

  • Jen Cox
  • June 24, 2020
JD Scott discusses their new story collection, MOONFLOWER, NIGHTSHADE, ALL THE HOURS OF THE DAY.
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This Thing of Existence: Talking with Rion Amilcar Scott

  • TJ Fuller
  • July 29, 2019
Rion Amilcar Scott discusses his new story collection, THE WORLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU.
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A Very Precarious Moment: Talking with Karen Russell

  • Frances Yackel
  • July 15, 2019
Karen Russell discusses her newest collection, ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ilya Kaminsky

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • March 26, 2019
Ilya Kaminsky discusses his new collection, DEAF REPUBLIC.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #167: Josh Denslow

  • Eric Andrew Newman
  • March 14, 2019
“It was a relief to be out of the confines of scriptwriting. I was having fun again.”
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Smart Girls, Weird Magic: Talking with Kendra Fortmeyer

  • Maggie Cooper
  • October 5, 2018
Kendra Fortmeyer discusses her first novel, HOLE IN THE MIDDLE.
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Any Day Now: A Conversation with Anjali Sachdeva

  • Ed Simon
  • July 6, 2018
Anjali Sachdeva discusses her debut story collection, ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD.
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What If We Were Allowed to Do Anything We Wanted?: A Conversation with Clare Beams

  • Maggie Cooper
  • September 8, 2017
Clare Beams on We Show What We Have Learned and the “living strangeness” of short fiction.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #100: Jennifer Colville

  • Nina Lohman Cilek
  • September 7, 2017
From the tender age of eight, Jennifer Colville has known herself to be a visual artist.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • September 2, 2016
For a story in a different medium this week, check out Amber Sparks’s “Thirteen Ways to Destroy a Painting” from this year’s The Unfinished World—adapted to a radio play. It’s brought…
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When Realism Is Magical

  • Guia Cortassa
  • April 26, 2016
Fabulism is a lot like this purse. It seems to belong to this world, but doesn’t follow all of the rules. It beckons you. It’s off. The more you explore…
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • November 20, 2015
This week, Bryan Hurt gives us a fabulist story in which CEOs practice blood sacrifice to ensure quarterly profits. (Believable.) The story, “Contract,” went up on Lit Hub on Wednesday…
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