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Why Fit In When You Can Stand Out?: Talking with Jason Mott

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey
  • November 29, 2021
Jason Mott discusses his new novel, HELL OF A BOOK.
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Complicating Unhelpful Binaries: Talking with Deesha Philyaw

  • Nia Norris
  • December 16, 2020
Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
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We Have to Trust Our Punch: A Conversation with Kevin Young

  • Ryan Krull
  • January 5, 2018
Kevin Young discusses Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, America's relationship to hoaxes, and what we can learn from that relationship.
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A Deeply Human Act: Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

  • Chelsea Dingman
  • October 13, 2017
What is so extraordinary about this collection is its lyricism, its humanity, and its urgency.
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The Rumpus Interview with Bonnie Jo Campbell

  • Catherine Eaton
  • March 17, 2017
Bonnie Jo Campbell discusses her collection Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, the natural world as a character, and finding writing from the male point of view easier.
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Touring Trump’s America on Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad

  • Rajeev Balasubramanyam
  • November 22, 2016
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award on Wednesday night. In his acceptance speech he told us, “We’re happy in here; outside is the blasted hellhole wasteland…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #57: Jesse Ball

  • Alex Dueben
  • November 10, 2016
It can be hard to describe a Jesse Ball novel. They’re willfully strange, dark and puzzling, but the pieces aren’t always designed to fit together. Instead, each of his books,…
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War Narratives #6: The Rumpus Interview with Phil Klay

  • Caleb Cage
  • April 6, 2016
When you’re writing fiction, you can follow your own ignorance. You can write something and realize how flawed you are.
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Learning to Write, One Sentence at a Time

  • Jake Slovis
  • December 30, 2015
At the Guardian, Angela Chen profiles poet Robin Coste Lewis, who was only permitted to write one sentence a day after sustaining severe brain damage: “I would sit there for eight…
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Why Some Voices Are “Stronger” than Others in YA Lit

  • Katie O'Brien
  • December 4, 2015
At the School Library Journal, Kelly Jensen examines gender norms and double standards in YA fiction, questioning which female protagonists we refer to as “strong”—and why do not refer to male…
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Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis

  • Diana Arterian
  • November 20, 2015
Diana Arterian reviews Robin Coste Lewis's Voyage of the Sable Venus today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Groff

  • Stephanie Trott
  • October 14, 2015
Lauren Groff talks about her new novel, Fates and Furies, the life of creative people and those who love them, and why she's grateful to anyone who reads books.
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