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Memoir: Narrative

  • Dolan Morgan
  • January 16, 2018
"I think this is my life."
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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 Rumpus Review of One More Time with Feeling

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • September 22, 2016
“We didn’t ask for it,” Cave begins another poetic flight, and again we think he’s talking about something ghastly, “but it’s all around us, a gratuitous beauty.”
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Hashtag at the Wedding

  • Michelle Vider
  • August 23, 2016
For The Hairpin, Ella Riley-Adams delves into the phenomenon of the wedding hashtag, and the ways we control and shape the narrative around crucial life milestones.
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Novelists Versus Machines

  • Jake Slovis
  • July 13, 2016
The Atlantic explains how Kurt Vonnegut’s lectures about story arcs influenced a group of researches to classify works of fiction based on six “core narratives” in order to find the “emotional trajectory…
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Grey Matters

  • Theodora Messalas
  • May 20, 2016
This is how it started: Falling into the spaces between words, between ideas, between sentences. An infinite elbowing out of time, and time and space between. Gaps upon gaps upon…
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A Novelist’s Comics

  • Michelle Vider
  • May 9, 2016
Samuel Sattin considers the impact of writing comics to a novelist’s narrative sensibilities at Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
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A Narrative to Relate To

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • March 7, 2016
At Guernica, Elizabeth Karp-Evans interviews John Freeman, the founder of the literary journal Freeman’s, on freelancing, his goals for Freeman’s, and cultivating narratives: Narratives are individual; after that they become myths…
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The Rumpus Interview with Paul Lansky

  • Joel Hoffman
  • February 26, 2016
Paul Lansky talks about his career as a pioneer in the world of electronic and computer-generated music.
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An Editor’s High-Priced Advice

  • Ian MacAllen
  • December 22, 2015
Submission fees irk writers because they often prey on novice writers without the connections to bypass slush piles. Narrative Magazine is one of the worst offenders, with a fee of $23,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Erik Larson

  • Ben Pfeiffer
  • May 11, 2015
Bestselling author Erik Larson talks about his new book, Dead Wake, his transition from journalism to history, and what, in his opinion, makes a first-rate nonfiction novel.
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The Narrative of Zelda

  • Claire Burgess
  • March 27, 2015
In response to the news that Nintendo and Netflix may be developing a Legend of Zelda TV series, Ted Trautman at the Paris Review blog examines the character development and…
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