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The Rumpus Interview with Kenny Porpora

  • Claire Bidwell Smith
  • February 4, 2015
Kenny Porpora discusses his memoir The Autumn Balloon, addiction and alcoholism, writing truthfully about his mother, falling asleep at Burger King with his laptop while drafting, and how he finally found his personal writing style.
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Different Worlds

  • Roxie Pell
  • February 3, 2015
While the boundary between fiction and nonfiction has never been clearly defined, no one said crossing over would be easy. For the Daily Beast, Esther Freud describes how she made…
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Writing and Collecting

  • Guia Cortassa
  • January 29, 2015
When I left the house on Pace Street and moved to Vermont, I became a writer. I became a writer because I was so broken down by early motherhood that…
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Peeking at Leaks

  • Guia Cortassa
  • January 27, 2015
The joy of reading other people’s mail is a well-known, well-documented phenomenon. Inspired by the Sony data hack, Lydia Kiesling investigates the pleasure of looking at famous people’s personal correspondence over…
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The Rumpus Interview with Daisy Hernández

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • December 26, 2014
Daisy Hernández talks about her new memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed, feminism, bilingual writing, and working in both the fiction and nonfiction genres.
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How Not to Break

  • Bryan Washington
  • December 23, 2014
For NYT Magazine, Wils S. Hylton tackles the myth of Laura Hillenbrand, the bestselling nonfiction author who never really leaves her house: She is cut off not only from basic tools…
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A Biography of the Biography

  • P.E. Garcia
  • December 15, 2014
For literary biography to survive as a genre, it ought to take its lead from literature and go even further. For the Guardian, Stuart Kelly looks at the history of…
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Joshua Davis’s Spare Parts

  • Roxie Pell
  • December 5, 2014
Everyone loves a good underdog story, but Joshua Davis isn’t going to give us one. His new book Spare Parts, released this Tuesday, profiles four Mexican American teenagers who won…
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The Rumpus Interview with Suki Kim

  • Julia Phillips
  • November 21, 2014
Suki Kim discusses her new memoir, Without You, There Is No Us, going undercover for research, growing up as an immigrant to the U.S., and spending six months trapped in North Korea.
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The Big Idea: Eula Biss

  • Suzanne Koven
  • November 17, 2014
On Immunity author Eula Biss speaks to Suzanne Koven about mythology, personal freedom, and the history of vaccines.
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Creativity Is Messy

  • Ian MacAllen
  • November 5, 2014
Technically perfect writing is important when it comes to journalism or nonfiction, and especially helpful when writing with short deadlines. Fiction writing is different though. Nicole Bernier, over at Beyond…
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Crashing on Ice

  • Lyz Lenz
  • November 3, 2014
The sound you hear when you put ice cubes into warm (but not hot) water—that subtle but quick crackling—is the sound all around you in the summer fjords near glaciers.…
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