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The Rumpus Interview with Matthew Baker

"Master fictioneer" Matthew Baker talks about his new middle grade novel, If You Find This, artists as tricksters, his favorite comic strips, and why children are still capable of believing in impossible things.

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The Rumpus Interview with Daniel José Older

Author Daniel José Older talks about his new novel, Shadowshaper, noir influence in urban fantasy, gentrification, white privilege and the publishing industry, and why we need diverse books, now more than ever.

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The Rumpus Interview with Mark Danielewski

Mark Danielewski talks about the "maddening energy of violence" and why he’s writing a 27–volume novel, starting with his first 850-page installment in the series, The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May.

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The Rumpus Interview with Antonio Ruiz-Camacho

Author Antonio Ruiz-Camacho speaks about his new collection, Barefoot Dogs, breakthrough stories, the writing process, and why translating his book for readers in Mexico feels like a homecoming.

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Writing as an Animal

“Can fiction show us how animals think?” Ivan Kreilkamp doesn’t think so, and tells us why in an essay over at the New Yorker.

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Noodling about with Narratives

The introduction to Martin Solares’s How to Draw a Novel, currently in the process of English translation, takes on a cheerfully animated life of its own at LitHub. Solares discusses…

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Guildtalk #1: The Rumpus Interview with Eddie Joyce

Guildtalk, brought to you by The Rumpus and the Authors Guild, brings attention to exciting new voices in American literature. The first installment features Richard Russo and Eddie Joyce.

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A Play on Plagues

Over at Tablet, Etgar Keret treats us all to a short story for Passover.

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Return to Braggsville

Two authors take a trip that they did not take to a place that's no place (but could be anywhere) in Wiley Cash's feature on novelist T. Geronimo Johnson and his new book, Welcome to Braggsville.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Out on the Coast

When he was five, six, seven, and eight, Max spent most of the summer thinking about the whale, sitting in his room with the shades drawn remembering the first visit and looking forward to the second, just before the new school year.

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The Rumpus Interview with Benjamin Parzybok

Author Benjamin Parzybok talks about his new novel, Sherwood Nation, climate fiction, the difference between post-collapse and post-apocalyptic, and how novels can predict the future if they try hard enough (and get lucky).

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