The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #172: Leanne Shapton
“I see objects and things as reliquaries that can hold stories.”
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Posts Tagged: Riverhead Books
Galaxies in Houston: A Conversation with Bryan Washington
Bryan Washington discusses his debut story collection, LOT.
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Obsession and Impulse: Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights
The words act as a push, like a wind at your back.
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The Rumpus Interview with Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett discusses her debut novel The Mothers, investigating “what-if” moments, and navigating racism in white spaces.
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The Rumpus Interview with Manuel Gonzales
Manuel Gonzales talks about his new novel, The Regional Office is Under Attack!, transitioning from nonprofit work to teaching, and how to zig when a trope wants you to zag.
...morePlot Isn’t Everything
At Guernica, Rebecca Saleton, the editorial director of Riverhead Books who has worked with the likes of Hillary Clinton and Peter Matthiessen, talks about her experience in publishing over the last 30 years and how she still believes that readers are, in fact, interested in ideas: We can get so carried away with the […]
...morePoems from the South Pole
In a recent post about newly discovered undeveloped photos of a Shackleton expedition to Antarctica 100 years ago, we mentioned that Riverhead Books publicity director Jynne Dilling Martin is currently an artist-in-residence in Antarctica, and that she had written a splendid essay about penguins for Slate. She’s since written a few other pieces about life near […]
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