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“I Want to Play”: Talking with Sam Bailey

  • Samantha Irby
  • August 12, 2019
Writer and director Sam Bailey talks with Samantha Irby about her work.
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Leveling Up: A Conversation with Lyz Lenz

  • Eve Ettinger
  • August 9, 2019
Lyz Lenz discusses her debut book, GOD LAND.
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Food, Family, and Strong Female Characters: A Conversation with J. Ryan Stradal

  • Susan Straight
  • July 26, 2019
J. Ryan Stradal discusses his new novel, THE LAGER QUEEN OF MINNESOTA.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Eve L. Ewing

  • The Rumpus
  • June 25, 2019
Eve L. Ewing discusses her new collection, 1919.
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Telling a Good Story: A Conversation with Lisa Lenzo

  • Lisa Romeo
  • May 29, 2019
Lisa Lenzo discusses her new story collection, UNBLINKING.
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Studying the City of Angels: A Conversation with Nina Revoyr

  • Shannon Henry Kleiber
  • March 22, 2019
Nina Revoyr discusses her new novel, A STUDENT OF HISTORY.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Shana Cleveland’s Grandma’s Hats

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • March 21, 2019
It’s such a powerful symbol of who she was.
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The Voice Is a Social Construct: Talking with Kristina Marie Darling

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • November 14, 2018
Poet Kristina Marie Darling discusses the literary life, collaborative writing, and the power of experimental forms.
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Off the Interstate, into Real Experience: Talking with Erica Trabold

  • Jenny Boully
  • November 9, 2018
Erica Trabold discusses her debut essay collection, FIVE PLOTS.
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Straddling the Divide: Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Interior States

  • Josef Kuhn
  • October 24, 2018
The entire collection is suffused by an aching awareness of absence and an obsession with the indelible markings of the past.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Basement

  • Adrienne Celt
  • October 17, 2018
Looking back, it feels like I knew.
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Inspired Inventiveness: Talking with Ian Morris

  • S. Ferdowsi
  • September 14, 2018
Ian Morris discusses his new novel, SIMPLE MACHINES.
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