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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Malcolm Tariq

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • November 26, 2019
Malcolm Tariq discusses his debut collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #162: Emma Winsor Wood and C. Dylan Bassett

  • Maria Anderson
  • January 24, 2019
“The miracle, in Kharms, is a kind of rupture within the physical structure of the world.”
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Everything as Story: A Conversation with Kendra Levin

  • Alice Roche Cody
  • December 18, 2017
Kendra Levin discusses her new book, The Hero Is You, her influential mentors, her career in publishing, and the creative struggles that led her to put writing aside for many years.
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The Daily Struggle

  • Wendy MacLeod
  • November 25, 2016
Lord knows the world has changed since I wrote this talk, but when the world falls to pieces around us, especially when the world falls to pieces, writers will still…
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #23: Plays to Devour on the Page and the Stage

  • Anna March
  • March 23, 2016
Of course it’s tremendous to see a play on stage, but reading a play, its script, is a pleasure in its own right. I think for many of us the…
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A World Made of Words

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • November 2, 2015
At ZYZZYVA, Christian Kiefer talks with novelist Scott Hutchins and playwright Octavio Solis about learning and developing as writers, the difference between writing plays and writing novels, and writing as a craft:…
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Brecht in Love

  • Roxie Pell
  • November 25, 2014
Who would’ve thought Bertolt Brecht would turn out to be such a romantic? While his newly released Love Poems are surprisingly erotic compared to his better-known plays, they retain that…
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The Rumpus Interview with Octavio Solis

  • Emily Wilson
  • February 1, 2013
Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Octavio Solis sits down for a chat about night terrors, universal storytelling, and finding a home with the Magic Theatre of San Francisco.
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