The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #166: T Kira Madden
“I want to always fight for art, not against it.”
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...moreA look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2018!
...moreKimberly Lojewski discusses WORM FIDDLING NOCTURNE IN THE KEY OF A BROKEN HEART.
...moreI don’t know what I expected.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreThe sentence is Groff’s most fertile ground.
...moreKristen Arnett discusses her debut collection, Felt in the Jaw, how place informs writing, and deciding to hold her book release party at a local 7-Eleven.
...moreLove twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
...moreTo truly know a land is to become it—to embody its storms in your bones, taste its dark soil beneath your nails, know the tangled history of the people who walked before you.
...more“Everything about the term is predicated on bad faith. It needs to die.”
...moreGrace shook her head, surprised by both her reluctance to speak and her impulse to lie. She had seen many photos of Rebecca.
...moreRajiv Mohabir discusses his second collection, The Cowherd’s Son, his work as a translator, and resisting erasure in a racist America.
...moreWhile we can’t promise that 2018 won’t find us facing more political upheaval, we can assure you that there will be great literature to offer moments of escape and inspiration.
...moreChip Livingston discusses his new novel, Owls Don’t Have to Mean Death, his move to Uruguay, his writing life, and the significance of owls.
...moreOmar El Akkad discusses his debut novel American War, suicide terrorism, fossil fuels, and blankets.
...moreA weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world.
...moreIn celebration of our Floridian friends and family, we’ve compiled a list of great books that take place in, engage with, or otherwise visit the “Sunshine state.”
...moreThe summer after Bruce Snow graduated from the University of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina arrived in his hometown.
...moreShe never stopped, a bee buzzing from flower to flower to flower, collecting all the sweetness she could.
...moreOver at The Walrus, Fatima Syed looks to build space in popular culture for depictions of different types of Muslims. With a sinking feeling, Kristen Arnett looks inside herself and finds nothing but the swamp of Florida’s influence in a reflective essay for Lit Hub. Alcy Levya launches The Rumpus’s July series, #reclaimingpatriotism2017, with a powerful essay about his duties on the front lines […]
...moreSarah Gerard’s dazzling second book, Sunshine State, is a collection of essays interlacing narrative nonfiction and personal essay. The thirty-one year old Brooklynite teaches nonfiction and writes a monthly column for Hazlitt. She has received rave reviews from the New York Times, NPR, and The Millions. Using her home state of Florida as the medium to navigate […]
...moreStocking backlist titles helps some bookstores differentiate themselves. Harvard Book Store has set up a section commemorating the Bowling Green Massacre. A Florida bookstore has become a source of food for those in need, serving as a Little Free Pantry.
...moreMaybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.
...morePatrick Ryan discusses his new collection The Dream Life of Astronauts, the “bad old days,” and the human need to believe that everything will turn out okay in the end (even when we know it won’t).
...more“But what are the statistics? Aren’t you taking a similar risk just driving?” Wide-eyed, attentive, he leans forward slightly.
...moreI met one of my favorite writers before she ever published a single story. We were classmates vying for our MFAs in Creative Writing from Florida International University and would smile at each other from across the room. She was shy, but never defensive, in workshop and always strove, really made the effort, to answer […]
...moreRussell Banks discusses his new book, Voyager: Travel Writings, why we are never free from our history, and how writing saved his life.
...moreThe next victim of Amazon’s physical stores will be Chicago. If Los Angeles is having a literary renaissance, it is happing at The Last Bookstore. A bookstore in Tampa pokes fun at Amy Schumer poking fun at Tampa.
...moreThe only way forward when you’re lost in the woods, Frost once wrote, is straight ahead. But where is the Florida jungle straight?
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