The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Carribean Fragoza
“I always try to locate stories deep inside myself, physically and emotionally.”
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...moreFrighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.
...more“[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”
...moreColin Winnette discusses his new novel, The Job of the Wasp, the nature of horror and his approach to writing it, and the fear at the heart of the book.
...moreChanelle Benz’s debut collection, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, is filled with characters often facing a moral crossroads. The stories contain the unexpected, like a classic Western complete with local brothel as well as a gothic tale. Benz’s writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Guernica, The American Reader, and Granta.
...moreDonald Ray Pollock has been steadily serving up plates of mild horror since his first book of short stories, Knockemstiff, appeared in 2008. Pollock followed the explosion of Knockemstiff with The Devil All the Time, in 2011, his first novel, which also bordered on the genre of mystery, again with generous servings of darkness. His […]
...moreRobyn Schiff talks about her collection A Woman of Property, the long con of “owning” land, her passion for early novels, how motherhood changed her poetry, and the generative powers of form.
...moreOver at Lit Hub, Bridget Reid praises the proto-feminist Gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe and company, in all of their glory as horrid, formulaic, and dreadfully misunderstood creatures, with a special laundry list of gothic tropes as they can be applied to Halloween in New York City.
...moreGothic dreamscapes and hypnotic investigations of the self beguile the reader of Monica Ferrell’s debut collection.
...moreJ. Robert Lennon’s latest novel explores the darkness of the land and the soul.
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