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The Old Fetal Narrative

  • Micah Perks
  • November 21, 2016
Maybe it has something to do with the watery world that a fetus inhabits—our words taking on the summersaulting quality of an internal water ballet.
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The Rumpus Interview with Carolyn Parkhurst

  • Alejandra Oliva
  • November 14, 2016
Carolyn Parkhurst discusses her latest book, Harmony, writing about your personal life and family in fiction, and her fascination with cults.
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Omniscience Is In

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 14, 2016
In a New York Times article, Elliott Holt writes about how omniscience is making a comeback in contemporary fiction. She writes: The effects of omniscience are authority and scope; novels…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rebecca Schiff

  • Emma Winsor Wood
  • June 8, 2016
Rebecca Schiff discusses her debut collection The Bed That Moved, choosing narrators who share similarities with each other and with herself, and whether feminism and fiction-writing conflict.
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The Rumpus Interview with Robert Boswell

  • Alex Dueben
  • December 22, 2014
Robert Boswell talks about his new novel, Tumbledown, mental illness and counseling, and writing a novel in an unreliable but omniscient voice.
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Not That Kind of Narrator

  • Guia Cortassa
  • December 11, 2014
The problem with unreliable narrators — and the thing that makes them so delightful to read in fiction — is that by design, you never quite know when they are…
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Distancing Author and Narrator

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 14, 2014
The line between fiction and non-fiction has always been blurry, but an author’s choice of genre—be it novel, memoir, or even autobiography—results in different relationships between the reader and narrator.…
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Unreliable Men

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 11, 2014
The unreliable narrator lends a particular type of voice to a story. After breaking down unreliable narrators by gender, Elizabeth Weinberg concludes that there are differences between male and female unreliable…
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