The Rumpus Mini-interview Project: Andrea Bartz
“And as those masks fall away, we get down to the shame and envy underneath.”
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...moreKevin Nguyen discusses his debut novel, NEW WAVES.
...moreAda followed her song deeper into the bush, until the windmill loomed up before her.
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...morePatrick Coleman discusses his debut novel, THE CHURCHGOER.
...moreNina Revoyr discusses her new novel, A STUDENT OF HISTORY.
...moreRahna Reiko Rizzuto discusses her newest book, SHADOW CHILD.
...moreAuthor and activist Sarah Schulman discusses her forthcoming novel, MAGGIE TERRY.
...moreJon McGregor discusses his newest novel, Reservoir 13, his writing process, and why he chose not to sidestep the “missing girl” trope.
...moreIn April, the Mystery Writers of America named Max Allan Collins a Grand Master, the organization’s peer-voted lifetime achievement award. Collins has had a prolific and often eclectic career. The Iowa Writers Workshop graduate has written more than one hundred books, has had a long career as a comics writer including, most famously, the Road to […]
...moreAmazon’s revolutionary new way to sell books in a physical brick and mortar store, has opened in New York City. Everyone old is new again. Even chain bookstores, like the UK’s Waterstones, thrives because of booksellers’ personal touches, like book recommendations.
...moreJoe Ide discusses his debut novel, IQ his writing process, and why he enjoys fly fishing.
...moreLucy Jane Bledsoe discusses her latest book, A Thin Bright Line, uncovering the remarkable story of her aunt, and illuminating history through the lens of imagination.
...moreFor Atlas Obscura, Abby Norman retraces Barbara Newhall Follett’s mysterious history: She is called a child prodigy, a literary luminary, a spirit of nature. So why have so few people heard of her or read her work? For one, Barbara Newhall Follett disappeared without a trace when she was 25 years old.
...moreBrian Booker discusses his debut collection Are You Here For What I’m Here For?, giving characters strange and unusual names, and sleeping sickness.
...moreThe then-girls, now-women who grew up reading Harry Potter are revitalizing the book market and steering publishing trends, and here’s what they want now: crime thriller fiction featuring calculating and vengeful female protagonists, now its own genre umbrella-ed by the term “grip lit.” MPR writes that the dark, psychological magic of Harry Potter inspired this […]
...more“I was looking at books… Gary and I had seen each other. We didn’t know one another. And he walked over to me in this particular bookstore and handed me a book by Teran and said, ‘You’ve gotta read this book, it’s really good.’” NPR shares the love story of Gary Shulze and Pat Frovarp, retiring owners […]
...moreWhat do you get when you combine a missing sister, an attic door that won’t close, a biohazard cleaning team, and a cameo from two blind tabby cats named Dr. No and Mr. Goldfinger? A new Laura van den Berg story, “Aftermath.” Originally published in the most recent print-only issue of Conjunctions, you can read […]
...moreGarth Risk Hallberg talks about his debut, City on Fire, living in New York City now and in the ’70s, and the anxiety and gratitude you feel when your first novel generates so much buzz.
...moreLori Rader-Day discusses her second novel, Little Pretty Things, the “five lost years” when she didn’t write at all, and her favorite deep-dish pizza.
...moreJoyce Carol Oates talks about her new novel, inspired by her stalker: Stephen King is a friendly acquaintance. He has been a very generous individual in the world of genre fiction, and of fiction generally. But more particularly, King was once “stalked” by an emotionally disturbed woman who also “stalked” me, about twenty years ago. […]
...moreSteph Cha talks about her new novel, Beware Beware, writing compelling and complex Korean American characters, and what reading a book has in common with a level in a video game.
...more(adj.); of or relating to hunting; fond of hunting, whether for sport or livelihood; from the Latin venari (“to hunt”) “Love her or hate her, Banksy is putting herself at the intersection of the street and the art world. Why would anyone expect that position to be occupied by a man?” —Kriston Capps, “Why Banksy […]
...moreThe Rumpus talks to Sean Michaels about his new book, Us Conductors, challenging a reader’s empathy, and a true, strange musical instrument: the theremin.
...moreCheck out Rumpus contributor Elliott Holt’s Brooklyn Twitter mystery. You have until the end of today to help decide if the death in question was a “#suicide, #homicide, or an #accident?”
...more“When, they ask, are things going to get dirty again? “If you want an answer to that question, ladies and gentlemen, let me propose one. In 2010, the only sex that’s truly dangerous and unbounded is solitary.” In response to Granta’s latest Sex Issue, Guardian UK takes a provocative, one-handed stance. Personally, I find this […]
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