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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #214: Sarah Kersey

  • Lenny DellaRocca
  • April 23, 2020
“A poem cannot exist without form or structure, just like the human body can’t operate without a skeleton.”
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Praise the Bottom: A Conversation with Malcolm Tariq

  • Cassius Adair
  • December 11, 2019
Malcolm Tariq discusses his debut poetry collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #193: C.J. Farley

  • Colin Channer
  • September 19, 2019
“My novel tries to write the contributions of men and women of color back in.”
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This Thing of Existence: Talking with Rion Amilcar Scott

  • TJ Fuller
  • July 29, 2019
Rion Amilcar Scott discusses his new story collection, THE WORLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU.
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What to Read When You Want to Reclaim Your Time

  • The Rumpus
  • July 6, 2018
Books that center us and offer new perspectives.
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Reading Other People’s Mail: Talking with Michelle Dean

  • Elon Green
  • April 4, 2018
Michelle Dean discusses Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, literary legends, and the absence of Black writers from the narrative.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #84: Susan DeFreitas

  • Josh_Cook
  • May 18, 2017
Picture this: a curbside juggler with a rose between his teeth. That’s the opening image of Susan DeFreitas’s powerful debut novel, Hot Season. Vivid (and sometimes strange) images strike again…
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Harlem Is Nowhere

  • Adam Keller
  • June 3, 2016
A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago takes visitors through the collaborative efforts of writer Ralph Ellison and photographer Gordon Parks: In some ways, their collaboration is akin…
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Desiree Cooper

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • March 25, 2016
Desiree Cooper discusses her debut collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, what mother-writers need, and why motherhood is the only story she’s ever told.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #22: Classic Novels That Are a Joy to Read

  • Anna March
  • March 9, 2016
Sometimes we bypass the classic novels on the way to the rich offering of current literary fiction. Fair enough; there is so much to love in today’s fiction. But once…
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Writing from the Basement

  • P.E. Garcia
  • October 23, 2015
I never bring my computer with me to the basement, and the discipline of the method is to force myself to work out the ideas, the arrangement of the argument…
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Do Authors Use Symbols on Purpose?

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • December 5, 2013
In 1963, a high-schooler named Bruce McAllister decided he would prove to his English teacher once and for all that the symbols she was asking students to find in books…
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