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Gordon Lish

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Insinuative Curvilinearities: A Conversation with Garielle Lutz

  • Crow Jonah Norlander
  • April 21, 2021
Garielle Lutz discusses her new story collection, WORSTED.
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Lay It Down Right: A Conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson

  • Nicole Treska
  • July 17, 2019
Mitchell S. Jackson discusses his newest book, SURVIVAL MATH.
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The Mentor Series: Kimberly King Parsons and Victoria Redel

  • Kimberly King Parsons
  • May 20, 2019
Kimberly King Parsons interviews her mentor, Victoria Redel.
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Brain Soup and Making Things: A Conversation with Rita Bullwinkel

  • Maria Anderson
  • June 22, 2018
Rita Bullwinkel discusses her debut story collection, Belly Up, the foolishness of writing, and what went into the making of her first book.
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The Rumpus Interview with Marian Thurm

  • Andrea Arnold
  • November 16, 2015
Prolific author Marian Thurm talks about her new collection of stories, Today is Not Your Day, being a true New Yorker, and the importance of sympathetic characters.
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The Rumpus Interview with David Shields and Caleb Powell

  • Edie Meidav
  • February 20, 2015
Writers David Shields and Caleb Powell can't stop fighting, even about their new book-length argument and forthcoming film, I Think You're Totally Wrong.
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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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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Mitchell S. Jackson

  • Cullen Thomas
  • March 31, 2014
Cullen Thomas sits down with Mitchell S. Jackson to discuss The Residue Years, overlooked and ignored communities, studying with Gordon Lish, and writing dangerously.
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You’ve Told Your Worst Secret

  • Serena Candelaria
  • February 25, 2014
Gordon Lish, acclaimed writer, editor, and teacher, is renowned for giving fiction writers the following advice: tell your worst secret. Lish encourages writers to put themselves at risk, first making…
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Write Your Worst Secret

  • Serena Candelaria
  • December 17, 2013
Amy Hempel started writing fiction in her late twenties when she took a workshop with Gordon Lish at Columbia; she stayed in this workshop as a student for years. In…
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Breaking Down Sentences and Style via Gordon Lish

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • October 3, 2013
If you think of Gordon Lish, now best known for editing Raymond Carver’s work, as an “eccentric editor; tyrannical teacher; notorious provocateur,” you may need to take a second look.…
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Notable New York, This Week 6/14 – 6/20

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • June 14, 2010
This week in New York Stephen Colbert celebrates Ulysses, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson are King and Queen of the Mermaid Parade, Heidi Julavits interviews Aimee Bender at Symphony Space,…
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