Between Illusion and Reality: A Conversation with Erin Pringle
Erin Pringle discusses her debut novel, HEZADA! I MISS YOU.
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Posts Tagged: money
Interestingness Is Always There: Talking with Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell discusses HOW TO DO NOTHING: RESISTING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #207: Andrew Weatherhead
“I want my art to be symbiotic with my life, not separate from it.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Ojalá
There is an irony that sometimes rings Mona like a bell.
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Off the Grid: Talking with Jamie Beth Cohen
Jamie Beth Cohen discusses her debut novel, WASTED PRETTY.
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Everyone You Love Is Broke: The Not Wives by Carley Moore
How do you go on when the losses seem unbearable?
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I Am the Ignition
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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Not All of Us Are on Vacation: Talking with Jason Allen
Jason Allen discusses his debut novel, THE EAST END.
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The Luxury of Choice: Talking with Joanne Ramos
Joanne Ramos discusses her debut novel, THE FARM.
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Bringing the Fun Back: Talking with Andrea Lawlor
Andrea Lawlor discusses PAUL TAKES THE FORM OF A MORTAL GIRL.
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Pronk: On Still Life Painting and the Price of Showing Off
Everything is political. To believe otherwise is a form of willful ignorance.
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Studying the City of Angels: A Conversation with Nina Revoyr
Nina Revoyr discusses her new novel, A STUDENT OF HISTORY.
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No-Man’s Land: A Conversation with Angela Mitchell
Angela Mitchell discusses her debut collection, UNNATURAL HABITATS & OTHER STORIES.
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A Body Is a Bill to Pay
If my body is a bill to pay, my voice will be singing the receipts.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Idra Novey
Idra Novey discusses THOSE WHO KNEW.
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ENOUGH: Daddy Warbucks
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Life of the Mind: A Conversation with Elizabeth Scanlon
Elizabeth Scanlon discusses her debut full-length collection, Lonesome Gnosis, brains and trains, and poetry as prayer.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Kirsten Irving
The pressure to prove ourselves can have a distorting effect, causing us to doubt our instincts in favor of following others we perceive to be experts or “genuine.”
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #23: The Love Song for Argyle C. Klopnik
File this one under “they can’t Trump everything; life goes on.” Last week, I got caught up in reflections on poverty in America: mine, yours, and ours. This week, I decided to do something about it and buckle down to design a careful budget. “Ack!,” I said, early one morning. “We’ve got to make a budget […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Terry McDonell
Terry McDonell talks about his new memoir The Accidental Life and his career in the magazine business, which spans the beginning of New Journalism through the digital revolution.
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Math reveals the six plots of fiction (and yoga). Messy room affecting your mood? These pessimistic pigs agree! Money buys happiness—if you pay in advance. That smile makes you look like a sucker. Arrival, CP Snow, and a place for the humanities.
...moreThat Painful Money Subject
Os&1s Reads’s The Art of Commerce talks with Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back, about the relationship between writers and money: Publishing is a machine that does what it does. You’re grateful, of course, to have the connection to it, because part of what it does is present your book to thousands and thousands of readers. That’s […]
...moreLoving Writing Back
My name is on the phone bill. The student loan bills, medical bills, internet service provider bills, car insurance bills, the lease. My name is on three bank accounts, the present combined balances of which are insufficient to pay any one of the aforementioned bills. My name is also on a book, my first novel, […]
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Love and Gymnastics
I didn’t want to be a ballerina. It didn’t even sound right. I wanted to be a gymnast. The word alone made me feel proud and stand a little straighter.
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The Upper Far East
So much for the ‘glamour’ of selling pretty things to pretty people.
...more(Attractive) Debut Novelists Earn Millions
Emma Cline received $2m advance for The Girls, due out in June, which puts her near the top of a growing list of first-time writers with advances in the millions. Last year, City on Fire earned Garth Risk Hallberg a $2m advance. The allure of debut novelists isn’t always an economic issue: Given the amount of […]
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If a weasel can shut down the Large Hadron Collider, we can finish that novel. And barring any more weasel problems, the future of physics is very exciting. Did you celebrate email debt forgiveness day? Fake hackers make more money than you. Your procrastination is making Facebook rich.
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