Leveling Up: A Conversation with Lyz Lenz
Lyz Lenz discusses her debut book, GOD LAND.
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Posts Tagged: journalism
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #187: Evan James
“The way it turned out is a total surprise to me.”
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The Uncovered Story: A Conversation with Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman discusses her newest novel, LADY IN THE LAKE.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #185: Lisa Taddeo
“It’s cruel to not say, I see you. I know you exist.”
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The Demands of Domestic Labor: A Conversation with Megan K. Stack
Megan K. Stack discusses her new memoir, WOMEN’S WORK.
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Doing the Work of Empathy: A Conversation with Marin Sardy
Marin Sardy discusses her debut memoir, THE EDGE OF EVERY DAY: SKETCHES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA.
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Objectivity Is My Enemy: A Conversation with Dave Cullen
Dave Cullen discusses his new book, PARKLAND: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.
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Totally and Brutally Honest: Talking with Amanda Petrusich
Music critic Amanda Petrusich discusses DO NOT SELL AT ANY PRICE.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #157: Sarah Viren
”There’s a danger to the word [’mine’] that I find really rich and exciting.”
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Breathing into the Paper Bag: Talking with Jenny Valentish
Jenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
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One Burning Question: A Conversation with Evelyn C. White
“I understood in that moment that my life had changed forever. And it has.”
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Here Is the Physical Proof: Talking with Elizabeth Rush
Elizabeth Rush discusses RISING: DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN SHORE.
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What It Is to Be Human: Talking with Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel, MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION.
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That Balancing Act: A Conversation with Vanessa Hua
Vanessa Hua discusses her forthcoming novel, A RIVER OF STARS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview #141: Tara Isabella Burton
“I want to make a case for the serious, literary legitimacy of the female experience of self-construction.”
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Something Truer Than True: Talking with Kelly O’Connor McNees
Kelly O’Connor McNees discusses her new novel, Undiscovered Country, the timeliness of its story, and the genre of historical fiction.
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Reading Other People’s Mail: Talking with Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean discusses Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, literary legends, and the absence of Black writers from the narrative.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #128: Dunya Mikhail
“All art is somehow a kind of witness, whether to beauty or to anything else.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Passing as Privileged”
I don’t feel ashamed of my history, I feel ashamed of letting it be erased.
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We Have to Trust Our Punch: A Conversation with Kevin Young
Kevin Young discusses Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, America’s relationship to hoaxes, and what we can learn from that relationship.
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Slowly Converging Paths: A Conversation with Nate Blakeslee
Nate Blakeslee discusses American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West, cultivating trust in his sources, and recreating action-packed scenes he did not witness.
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Sound & Vision: Anthony DeCurtis
Allyson McCabe talks with Anthony DeCurtis, author and music journalist, about the art of the interview, his friendship with Lou Reed, and teaching in the digital age.
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We believe that to remain the world’s best news organization, we must allow journalists time with these human families.
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Nothing Foreign about It: Talking with Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad discusses his debut novel American War, suicide terrorism, fossil fuels, and blankets.
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“The Book I Said I Would Never Write”: Talking with Karolina Ramqvist
Karolina Ramqvist discusses The White City, her first novel to be translated to English, and the idea of a writer’s persona out in the world versus a just being a writer, writing.
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Transgressive and Unruly Women: Talking with Anne Helen Petersen
Anne Helen Peterson discusses her new book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, her writing process, and academia.
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Analyzing the Why: A Conversation with Jonathan Reiss
Jonathan Reiss discusses his debut novel Getting Off, his transition from actor to writer, his own past drug use, and our country’s current opioid epidemic.
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Truth and Beauty: Talking with Joshua Wolf Shenk
The new Editor-in-Chief of The Believer dismantles stereotypes of Las Vegas, discusses the magazine’s acquisition, and makes a case for bringing journalism into the academy.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas discusses her new collection, The Tower of the Antilles, what she’s learned from translating works of others, and why we should all read poetry every day.
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