Story by Story: Talking with Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl discusses her forthcoming debut memoir-in-essays, LATE MIGRATIONS.
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From One World to the Next: Talking with Julie Lythcott-Haims
Julie Lythcott-Haims discusses HOW TO RAISE AN ADULT and REAL AMERICAN.
A Lumpy, Misshapen Book: Talking with Elissa Washuta
Elissa Washuta discusses her chapbook, STARVATION MODE.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #131: Lisa Wells
"I always feel like I’m starting over. I don’t know how I ever wrote a poem. I really do have that feeling."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #121: CLS Ferguson
"Because that’s how memories are, right? Little flashes."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #116: David Lazar
"Becoming an essayist has always seemed to me as a bit of a pratfall."
Slowly Converging Paths: A Conversation with Nate Blakeslee
Nate Blakeslee discusses American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West, cultivating trust in his sources, and recreating action-packed scenes he did not witness.
Reinventing Motherhood and Re-Dreaming Reality: Talking with Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore discusses her new novel We Were Witches, why capitalism and the banking system are the real enemies, and finding the limits between memoir and fiction.
Truth and Beauty: Talking with Joshua Wolf Shenk
The new Editor-in-Chief of The Believer dismantles stereotypes of Las Vegas, discusses the magazine's acquisition, and makes a case for bringing journalism into the academy.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #90: Erika Carter
Erika Carter’s debut novel Lucky You tells the story of three young women in their early twenties who leave their waitressing jobs in an Arkansas college town to embark on…
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Amy Benson
Our American obsession with the personal and individual has made us the tremendous resource consumers we are in the world.