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Instantly Gritty: Talking with Jennifer Pashley

  • Barrett Bowlin
  • December 24, 2020
Jennifer Pashley discusses her new novel, THE WATCHER.
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Violence and Human Reality: Talking with Szczepan Twardoch

  • Sean Gasper Bye
  • June 17, 2020
Szczepan Twardoch discusses his novel, THE KING OF WARSAW.
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The Sacred Act of Art-Making: A Conversation with Patrick Coleman

  • Rachel Lyon
  • August 23, 2019
Patrick Coleman discusses his debut novel, THE CHURCHGOER.
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The Fantasy of the Femme Fatale

  • Chloe Cole
  • July 8, 2019
I couldn’t help but see these women-led stories as missed opportunities.
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To Love a Place: Talking with Susan Blumberg-Kason

  • Tiffany Hawk
  • December 24, 2018
Susan Blumberg-Kason, co-editor of HONG KONG NOIR, discusses the new anthology.
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The Real Fake News

  • Jackson Arns
  • January 4, 2018
In 2017, newscaster cameos may be the only fact-fiction crossovers for which people have no difficulty keeping the two concepts apart.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • July 19, 2016
If you give a mouse an Orson Welles film, he might solve human consciousness. Your great-great grandkids might text from the grave. What Westerners consider universal about music: totally incorrect.…
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Noir Literature as Protest Literature

  • Katie O'Brien
  • April 29, 2016
With its trope of the hard-boiled, male detective, noir literature has historically had an inclusion problem. At Electric Literature, Nicholas Seeley discusses its burgeoning revival as protest literature against injustice:…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: How to Publish Your Short Story in Thirty Years or Less

  • Stephen Jay Schwartz
  • July 26, 2015
Listen carefully; there’s music in the air.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Patrick O’Neil

  • Rob Roberge
  • July 5, 2015
Patrick O'Neil talks about his debut memoir Gun Needle Spoon, being big in France, the drug/recovery genre, and writing through trauma.
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The Rumpus Interview with Daniel José Older

  • Adam Mills
  • May 29, 2015
Author Daniel José Older talks about his new novel, Shadowshaper, noir influence in urban fantasy, gentrification, white privilege and the publishing industry, and why we need diverse books, now more than ever.
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The Rumpus Interview with Steph Cha

  • Sabra Embury
  • January 2, 2015
Steph 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.
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