The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Randa Jarrar
Randa Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
...moreRanda Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
...moreJennifer Pashley discusses her new novel, THE WATCHER.
...moreK-Ming Chang discusses her debut novel, BESTIARY.
...moreMatthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.
...moreKate Reed Petty discusses her debut novel, TRUE STORY.
...more“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...moreHoward Axelrod discusses his new book, THE STARS IN OUR POCKETS.
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...moreJamie Beth Cohen discusses her debut novel, WASTED PRETTY.
...moreNick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.
...moreLiz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.
...moreHelen Phillips discusses her new novel, THE NEED.
...morePatrick Coleman discusses his debut novel, THE CHURCHGOER.
...moreKaren Russell discusses her newest collection, ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
...moreBarrie Jean Borrich discusses her work, including her most recent collection APOCALYPSE, DARLING.
...moreNamwali Serpell discusses her debut novel, THE OLD DRIFT.
...moreSarah Fawn Montgomery discusses her debut memoir, QUITE MAD.
...moreBoully splays open her own torso and readers divine what they need to from the spill of her organs.
...more“Categories are, by definition, externally created and applied.”
...moreAnjali Sachdeva discusses her debut story collection, ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD.
...moreKiki Petrosino discusses her newest collection, Witch Wife, the career she’d have in an alternate universe, and the relationship between reading and writing.
...moreWould you say poetry, for you, is the vessel which houses all other forms? I would say it is for me.
...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.
...moreHanif Abdurraqib discusses They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, honoring survival by showing up, and refusing to be governed by genre.
...moreLily Hoang discusses her first essay collection, A Bestiary, the importance of genre, and the lessons of teaching.
...moreWomen’s bodies signify so much, both to ourselves and others, that inhabiting them and having ownership over them often feel like two different states of being.
...moreAriel Gore discusses her new novel We Were Witches, why capitalism and the banking system are the real enemies, and finding the limits between memoir and fiction.
...moreDiasporic communities live inside a host nation, but they also live with difference.
...moreDavid Hernandez discusses his most recent poetry collection, Dear, Sincerely, working across multiple genres, and why the act of making anything is a kind of optimism.
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