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The Rumpus Interview with Jerald Walker

Jerald Walker discusses his memoir, The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult, the story of his childhood in The Worldwide Church of God, and how the act of writing delivered him from bitterness.

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The Rumpus Interview with Rion Amilcar Scott

Rion Amilcar Scott discusses his story collection Insurrections, father relationships, hip-hop, knowing when to abandon a project, and choosing not to workshop certain stories.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Martelli

Jennifer Martelli discusses her debut collection of poetry, The Uncanny Valley, growing up saturated with images of the Madonna, and her experience of motherhood first as a daughter and now as a mother.

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The Rumpus interview with Jeremy P. Bushnell

Jeremy P. Bushnell discusses his new novel, The Insides, themes of consent, and designing a post-apocalyptic board game.

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The Rumpus Interview with Vi Khi Nao

Vi Khi Nao on her new novel Fish in Exile, why women shouldn't apologize (even when they're wrong), moving between genres, and why humor is vital in a novel full of darkness and grief.

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The Rumpus Interview with Alice Mattison

Alice Mattison discusses her newest book, The Kite and the String, a meditation on her lifelong journey through the craft of writing, the joys of teaching writing, and the importance of community.

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Politics

The America We Live in Now

I don’t consider myself a political person. To me, there are no “wrong” political beliefs. I believe that democracy means respecting everyone’s right to her opinion. And if I were…

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Rumpus Original

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Fairy Tales, Trauma, Writing into Dissociation

Our bodies are incredible and intelligent things.

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Other

Talk Literary to Me

The artist statement is not just a representation of what you are working on, but an intervention in what you are working on. If you start saying, I aim to…

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The Rumpus Interview with Jerald Walker

The Rumpus Interview with Rion Amilcar Scott

The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Martelli

The Rumpus interview with Jeremy P. Bushnell

The Rumpus Interview with Vi Khi Nao

The Rumpus Interview with Alice Mattison

The America We Live in Now

The Rumpus Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #56: Patricia Engel

The Rumpus Interview with Brian Booker

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Fairy Tales, Trauma, Writing into Dissociation

Talk Literary to Me

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