The Rumpus Interview with Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel talks about his debut short story collection, Upright Beasts, his interest in monsters, and what sources of culture outside of literature inspire him.
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Posts Tagged: Kyle Minor
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 get to a situation where I’m spending most of my work time on the projects I care most about—the stories, the novels, the screen work, […]
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Kyle Minor
The Rumpus Book Club interviews Kyle Minor about his forthcoming collection Praying Drunk, religion and spirituality, fundamentalist Christianity, and what it means to be worldly.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Praying Drunk
Another wonderful illustrated review from HORN!
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The Rumpus Interview with David Abrams
David Abrams served for twenty years in the U.S. Army. He talks to us about his debut novel, Fobbit, a tragicomic rendering of things he observed in Baghdad.
...moreWHERE I WRITE #1: Hotels, Highways, Hotspots, Haiti
If I were independently wealthy, I would be less for it, because the chase for money to pay for food, shelter, babies, and now small children has taken me from sharing with two women an eighty square foot octagonal house originally built in the early twentieth century in rural Florida to house a wealthy child’s […]
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Evangelical, Pastor, Gay, Out… What Now?
Sometimes around dusk (I was probably six or seven years old), I would look out my bedroom window and see the sky turning orange and purple, and the setting sun turning red like blood, and I was sure the end of the world had come upon us, and soon graves would be ripped open, and […]
...moreThe Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
One awesome thing about Rumpus Books is that we’ve got tons of original author interviews and book reviews and other miscellany we publish each week. One awesome thing about Sundays is that we put it all in one place for you to catch up.
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A Great Piece of Writing That Isn’t Famous and Has Never Been Collected in a Single-Authored Book, and Why the Hell Not?!
The reader wishes the reader had ever had such a teacher, although the teacher doesn’t seem himself to think he’s all that much of a teacher.
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