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What to Read When You Want Story Collections about Working Lives

  • Jenny Bhatt
  • September 11, 2020
Jenny Bhatt shares a reading list to celebrate EACH OF US KILLERS.
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A Love Letter to Fuckhead

  • Justin Carroll-Allan
  • June 5, 2017
If you’re judging your characters, you’re not doing it right. I’ll always be grateful to [Denis] Johnson for teaching me that.
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Wishing and Hoping: Card Tricks, Love Spells, and Methods of Escape

  • Bonnie Johnson
  • August 16, 2016
I’ll go one further and posit that we need our illusionists: to disprove our eyes, investigate our dreams, and sometimes charm the money from our pockets.
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The Rumpus Interview with Brendan Jones

  • Ben Pfeiffer
  • May 2, 2016
Brendan Jones talks about his debut novel, The Alaskan Laundry, living in Alaska, his time as a Wallace Stegner Fellow, and living and loving what you write.
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The Big Idea: John Freeman

  • Suzanne Koven
  • February 22, 2016
John Freeman, Executive Editor at Lit Hub, talks with Suzanne Koven about his new print-only literary magazine Freeman's, the difference between between criticism and editing, and his fear of flying.
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The End of the Tour

  • Roxie Pell
  • January 26, 2016
As if reading weren’t a solitary enough activity, one of the last remaining sources of human contact between writers and readers is on the wane. For Electric Literature, Keith Lee…
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The Rumpus Interview with Francisco Goldman

  • Daniel Peña
  • October 26, 2015
Francisco Goldman talks about the Narvarte Murders, Ayotzinapa, and the stories he feels most responsible for telling now.
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No Narrator like a Gatsby Narrator

  • Katie O'Brien
  • October 2, 2015
Over at Lit Hub, Robert Hahn finds homage to the voice of Nick Carraway in the fiction of Donna Tartt, Lorrie Moore, and Richard Ford, and discusses the lasting allure…
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The Rumpus Interview with Christian Kiefer

  • Andrea Arnold
  • April 15, 2015
Writer, musician, and poet Christian Kiefer discusses his literary influences, the "beautiful, beat up, and weird town" that is Reno, and writing from the perspective of beasts in his new novel The Animals.
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Monkeying Through Literature

  • Alex Norcia
  • March 6, 2015
For The Millions, Daniel O’Malley examines the appearance of monkeys in literature, dividing them into two categories: “the first involves stories that feature monkeys as prominent characters or focal points”; and…
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The Rumpus Interview with Wayne Harrison

  • Caroline Leavitt
  • December 10, 2014
Wayne Harrison discusses his debut novel, The Spark and the Drive, fiction, working as a correctional officer, and Carl Benz's three-wheeled Motor Car.
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The Rumpus Interview with Richard Ford

  • Ben Pfeiffer
  • November 26, 2014
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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