Rihanna Talks Dolezal, Domestic Abuse, and Success
In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Rihanna talks about her career up to this moment, going into depth about the ways in which she has seen worldwide success, public shaming,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jeremy Hawkins
Author Jeremy Hawkins discusses his debut novel, The Last Days of Video, the resurgence of the independent bookstore industry, and allowing nostalgia to have presence but not precedence in one’s life.
The Rumpus Interview with Luke B. Goebel
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.
The Rumpus Interview with Christian Wiman
Poet and essayist Christian Wiman discusses landscape, elegy, and the strain between doubt and belief.
Re-Referencing the Self
When Tao Lin asked Ben Lerner about his new novel’s epigraph, Lerner touched on the merits of the parable: I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption…
Another Station
When the The New York Times asked for his background, Ben Lerner answered the best he could: “Suburban-white-kid crime, Columbine High School sort of thing,” he said. “A violence of…
John Freeman Talks With Roxane Gay
John Freeman knows authors. Last year he published How To Read a Novelist, a collection of 55 author interviews. In this month’s issue of BOMB, Freeman interviewed Rumpus Essays Editor Emeritus Roxane Gay calling…
Roxane Gay and Leslie Jamison Get Personal About Essays
Rumpus essays editor and author of the forthcoming essay collection Bad Feminist Roxane Gay sat down to talk with The Empathy Exams author Leslie Jamison and Michele Filgate; the three women had an insightful…
A New Interview with Kyle Minor
Over at The Believer Logger, Matt Bell conducts a wonderful interview with Kyle Minor. There is a wonderful bit in here about work ethic: “What I hope, eventually, is that I can…
A Brief History of the Author Interview
At the New Yorker, Hannah Rosefield talks about how the author interview developed and why we, as a celebrity obsessed culture, care so much. “By Koval’s reckoning, we read or…
George Saunders,Timebends, and What Art Is Supposed to Do
There is a great interview over at BuzzFeed Books with George Saunders in which he discusses Arthur Miller’s Timebends and what he believes the purpose of art is. I also…
The Families We Create
Rumpus contributor Michelle Tea talks with Ms. Fit Magazine about getting pregnant, the families we create ourselves, and MUTHA Magazine. Here is probably one of the coolest quotes ever seen…