interview
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Spotlight: Adrian Tomine
Like most things I liked when I was sixteen, I first got into Adrian Tomine’s comics because of my older sister, who let me borrow her early issues of Optic Nerve. The series began as a set of self-published mini-comics, Xeroxed…
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Spotlight: An Interview with Tom Gauld
Tom Gauld talks about art, publishing, the balance between commissions and passion projects, and his upcoming book, Goliath.
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Remembering Jorge Luis Borges
Today would have been the 112th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges, the esteemed Argentine writer who championed the science fiction genre with his depictions of unreality. This is an archived Paris Review interview he did back in July of 1966…
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An Interview with a New Medium
Australian children’s book illustrator, Shaun Tan speaks through illustration in his interview with Spiegel. He captures his first impression of Hollywood, the imagined readership of his books, the presence of loneliness that pervades his books—all in pen and paper. It’s…
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A New Old DFW Interview
This 2006 interview with David Foster Wallace has been published for the first time in English. The conversation was part of a larger collection of pieces that highlighted foreign authors, movie directors and artists who were not well known in…
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Interviews With Poets: The Rumpus Original Combo with Traci Brimhall
In 2009, Traci Brimhall won the Crab Orchard Series First Book Award for her collection Rookery. Rumpus Contributor Evan J. Peterson interviewed Brimhall for this half of what we call a Rumpus Original Combo
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Things You Never Got to Hear Faulkner Say
When Faulkner addressed English classes at the University of Mississippi in 1947, he offered some interesting advice (there is always time for writing, it’s not good to wait when feeling inspired, the peak age for fiction writing is 35-45, etc.).…
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Matthew Lippman
“Now, 23 years later, I’m a broke poet with two books and a small fan base that digs my shit. Not too shabby for a half-ass, lazy, somewhat smart guy like myself.”
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A Shoe-Seller Speaks
I met Lauren (whose last name we are suppressing here) at a writing workshop in Provincetown almost fifteen years ago. She was shy, funny, brilliant, and very, very talented, and she dressed like one of those kids who had been…
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The Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with Neil de la Flor
How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!
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The Rumpus Interview With John Vanderslice at Tiny Telephone
The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that’s a great thing. We’ll be fine. Tiny Telephone will be fine.
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The Rumpus Interview With Sophia Raday
Sophia Raday’s new book, Love In Condition Yellow–A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage, is a beautifully rendered, often hilarious, account of how opposites can attract, and maybe even should. It’s also insightful meditation on America after 9/11 as it struggles…