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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Carribean Fragoza

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • December 21, 2021
“I always try to locate stories deep inside myself, physically and emotionally.”
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Lightning Rods and Line Breaks: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed

  • Willie Lee Kinard III
  • September 3, 2021
Frighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #206: Tina May Hall

  • Anne Valente
  • February 6, 2020
“[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”
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That Monster Is Right There: Talking with Colin Winnette

  • E. Woods
  • January 19, 2018
Colin 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.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #81: Chanelle Benz

  • Mickie Meinhardt
  • April 27, 2017
Chanelle 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…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #55: Donald Ray Pollock

  • David Breithaupt
  • October 26, 2016
Donald 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…
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The Rumpus Interview with Robyn Schiff

  • Emma Winsor Wood
  • March 21, 2016
Robyn 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.
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Are You Sure They Are All Horrid?

  • Kyle Williams
  • November 2, 2015
Over 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…
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A Girl Asleep in a Dream of Herself in a Dream

  • Nicky Beer
  • April 28, 2009
Gothic dreamscapes and hypnotic investigations of the self beguile the reader of Monica Ferrell’s debut collection.
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The Secret History

  • Andrew Sean Greer
  • March 26, 2009
J. Robert Lennon’s latest novel explores the darkness of the land and the soul.
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