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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Christine No

  • Jennifer Lewis
  • November 4, 2021
“Balance is its own beautiful practice.”
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The Tragedy of Hope: Talking with Willa C. Richards

  • Alex Madison
  • August 18, 2021
Willa C. Richards discusses her debut novel, THE COMFORT OF MONSTERS.
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Hell Is a Young Man: Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent

  • Sara Krolewski
  • April 28, 2021
The brutality of frat culture, Nugent suggests, is a veneer that hardly masks its devotees’ miseries and insecurities.
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The Plague within a Plague: Ethel Rohan’s In the Event of Contact

  • Joe Kapitan
  • April 21, 2021
Rohan is masterful at mining these triads for their palpable uneasiness and unavoidable suffering.
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I’m Cold, Please Touch Me: The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

  • Carley Moore
  • March 3, 2021
Sycamore wrote this book long before pandemic time, and yet it couldn’t have arrived at a better moment.
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Doublethink: A Conversation with Cortney Lamar Charleston

  • Julian Randall
  • February 15, 2021
Cortney Lamar Charleston discusses his new poetry collection, DOPPELGANGBANGER.
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No Unnecessary Touching: A Conversation with C. Kubasta

  • Stuart Ross
  • October 2, 2020
C. Kubasta discusses her new collection, ABJECTIFICATION: STORIES & TRUTHS.
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What Is (and Isn’t) Held in the Light: Diane Zinna’s The All-Night Sun

  • Holly M. Wendt
  • September 9, 2020
Trauma’s wing conceals and reveals.
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This Huge, Colossal Joy: A Conversation with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison

  • Janet Frishberg
  • June 1, 2020
Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison discuss their work.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Tracy O’Neill

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • May 20, 2020
Tracy O’Neill discusses her new novel QUOTIENTS.
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Learning to Listen: A Conversation with Natalia Hero

  • Anya Leibovitch
  • May 4, 2020
Natalia Hero discusses her debut novella, HUM.
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What Toulouse-Lautrec Taught Me about Intimacy

  • Erin Khar
  • March 3, 2020
I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
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