Kevin Sampsell
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Paper Trumpets #8: Perfect Ghost
I love how paper from that century—or anything over 100 years old—ages and changes color around the edges.
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An Author’s Economics
How much does it cost to write a book? Kevin Sampsell, author of This is Between Us and A Common Pornography, opens up to The Portland Mercury about how much he actually earned from his books — or rather, how…
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Paper Trumpets #6: The Barrel Roller
I find that slapstick violence can be pretty funny in collage art. Like visual satire.
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Paper Trumpets #5: Mudman vs. Sweaters
…I suspect that this particular Mudman would win this battle against these thin, preppy hipsters (or maybe they’re young Republicans).
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Paper Trumpets #2: Little Martyr Big Victory
I like combining joyful images with something dangerous or mysterious (I’m not sure about the reptile tail but I like how it adds a balance to it all).
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Between The Covers
Looking for a good new podcast? Check out Between The Covers! Hosted by David Naimon, it’s a literary radio broadcast/podcast for KBOO 90.7 FM in Portland, Oregon. The latest episode features our own Essays Editor Roxane Gay talking about trigger…
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Paper Trumpets #1: Strange Horizon
Paper Trumpets is a venue for me to share my own developing work and also to share my enthusiasm for the process of the art form and the growing community of awesome collagists out there all over the world.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Kevin Sampsell
The next Letter in the Mail, going out Friday, January 3, is from Kevin Sampsell! Kevin is the publisher of the small press Future Tense Books, the editor of anthologies like Portland Noir, and the author of several books, most recently the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Sampsell
Writer and publisher Kevin Sampsell talks about his first novel, This Is Between Us, the intricacies of romantic relationships, and making people uncomfortable through “holy shit moments.”
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Notable SF: 11/18–11/24
Monday 11/18: The Porchlight Storytelling Series continues with There Will Be Blood: Stories about Family. Readers include Rumpus pal Sean Keane, Chris Caen, Marianna Cherry, Jay Beaman, Karen Duffin, Brontez Purnell, and Jesse Rimler. $15 adv, $20 door, 8 p.m. at…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #47: Kevin Sampsell in Conversation with Gary Lutz
Gary Lutz, who in many circles is already known as a master of sentences, takes it to another level in his new collection, Divorcer (Calamari Press). Some of the sentences are so loaded and wild with commas and compound words,…
