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The Rumpus Interview with Darcey Steinke

Darcey Steinke talks about her new novel, Sister Golden Hair, motherlessness, the Southern cult of femininity, and how becoming a woman has changed since she came of age in a small city in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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The Rumpus Interview with Robert Boswell

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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The Rumpus Interview with Frederick Barthelme

Frederick Barthelme talks about his new novel, There Must Be Some Mistake, life after teaching, and why food from the Olive Garden is “execrable in the best possible way.”

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The Rumpus Interview with Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai talks about ghosts, teaching, chronology in writing, and her new novel, The Hundred-Year House.

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The Rumpus Interview with Richard Ford

Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Richard Ford discusses his new book, Let Me Be Frank With You, how metaphor shapes our world, and why he doesn't like the idea he has a battery to recharge.

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The Rumpus Interview with John Darnielle

The Rumpus talks to John Darnielle about his debut novel, Wolf in White Van, the differences between writing prose and songwriting, and what it's like to be a dad.

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The Rumpus Interview with Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman discusses his debut novel, A Replacement Life, Russia, the “immigrant novel,” Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, and Vladimir Putin.

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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Minot

The Rumpus talks with Susan Minot about MFA programs, Joseph Kony, and throwing out big chunks of text.

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The Rumpus Interview with Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell talks about her new novel, Landline, the writing advice she refuses to follow, and young adult fiction.

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The Rumpus Interview with Sean Michaels

The Rumpus talks to Sean Michaels about his new book, Us Conductors, challenging a reader’s empathy, and a true, strange musical instrument: the theremin.

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