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Visual Storytelling: A Conversation with Marnie Galloway

  • Elisa Shoenberger
  • November 2, 2018
Marnie Galloway discusses her award-winning comic IN THE SOUNDS AND SEAS.
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The Rumpus Interview with Micah Perks

  • Molly Antopol
  • January 9, 2017
Micah Perks talks about her new novel, What Becomes Us, America’s cultural and mythical heritage, and why every novel is a political novel.
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The Lonely Voice #32: The Last Lonely Voice

  • Peter Orner
  • November 1, 2016
That’s what the Lonely Voice has always been to me. It was a privilege to be allowed to have a private conversation with myself in public.
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Kloss, Kish, and the Great White Whale

  • Charley Locke
  • October 2, 2015
Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake aside, it’s hard to imagine a more mutualistic artist-writer pair than Robert Kloss and Matt Kish. (The Rumpus also recommends the duo of Casey Scieszka…
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Celebrating the “American Bible”

  • Jake Slovis
  • November 18, 2014
In accordance with the 163rd anniversary of Moby-Dick, Elisabeth Donnelly explores why Melville’s “American Bible” is still relevant today: Perhaps what Moby-Dick has to offer for generations of readers is “a shaft of light in the…
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The Art of the Office Novel

  • P.E. Garcia
  • October 13, 2014
Office fiction is deliberately and narrowly construed as being about manners, sociability, gossip, the micro-struggles for rank and status—in other words, “office politics”—rather than about the work that is done…
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The Fog of War

  • Aaron Gwyn
  • August 7, 2009
Robert Olmstead’s new novel demonstrates Robert E. Lee’s maxim: “It is well that war is so horrible, or we would grow to love it too much.”
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