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Eros of Mind: Notes on Researching a Novel

  • Carolina De Robertis
  • August 4, 2021
Research is not separate from living; they are blended rivers of experience.
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Into Unbound Space: Talking with Seth Rogoff

  • Kenneth J. Pruitt
  • November 20, 2019
Seth Rogoff discusses his novels FIRST, THE RAVEN: A PREFACE and THIN RISING VAPORS.
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The Rumpus Interview with Vi Khi Nao

  • Stephanie Trott
  • December 2, 2016
Vi Khi Nao on her new novel Fish in Exile, why women shouldn't apologize (even when they're wrong), moving between genres, and why humor is vital in a novel full of darkness and grief.
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Even Famous Novels Weren’t Written in a Day

  • Victor Luo
  • September 29, 2016
Feeling like the progress on your novel has stalled? That draft feel like it’s collecting dust as it sits on your hard drive, unopened for months? Worry not! Many novels that have…
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The Long and Winding Road

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 12, 2016
The stories are woven together with my life and my life moved across the globe as I wrote, so the stories too took that long journey. My map of becoming…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Michael Seidlinger

  • Heather Partington
  • December 27, 2015
The Publisher-in-Chief of Civil Coping Mechanisms and Book Reviews Editor for Electric Literature talks about his newest novel, The Strangest.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Gerard

  • Lianne Stokes
  • August 5, 2015
Author Sarah Gerard talks about her novel, Binary Star, her chapbook, BFF, dysfunctional relationships, and what it means to be best friends forever.
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Writing Under the Influence of Catholicism

  • Lyz Lenz
  • June 25, 2015
William Giraldi talks about writing in spite of Catholicism: The Catholic O’Connor, in other words, has no Catholic agenda when she sits at the campfire to tell her story—across her singular canon…
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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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Write That Damn Novel

  • Michael Berger
  • January 7, 2010
I don’t know about you but this is the year I finish that @#$#@%!  novel. I got two hundred pages of rough stuff. Real rough stuff. The first novel. The…
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