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The Alternative Hypotheses: A Conversation with Brandon Taylor

  • Alvin Park
  • June 23, 2021
Brandon Taylor discusses his new story collection, FILTHY ANIMALS.
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Messy and Complicated and Real: Talking with Laura Pritchett

  • Carrie La Seur
  • March 9, 2018
Author Laura Pritchett discusses her two most recent books, death, sex, and being rural in modern America.
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Living in the Realm of the Subconscious: Talking with Melissa Fraterrigo

  • Christine Sneed
  • January 17, 2018
Melissa Fraterrigo discusses her new novel-in-stories, Glory Days, writing speculative fiction, and how our formative years influence us later in life.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #55: Donald Ray Pollock

  • David Breithaupt
  • October 26, 2016
Donald Ray Pollock has been steadily serving up plates of mild horror since his first book of short stories, Knockemstiff, appeared in 2008. Pollock followed the explosion of Knockemstiff with…
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Jill Schepmann
  • March 6, 2015
To help us cope with the passing of Leonard Nimoy, Melville House shared audio recordings of the baritone-voiced Vulcan reading excerpts from Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated…
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The Devilishness of Idleness

  • Alex Gallo-Brown
  • November 3, 2011
“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.” –Walter Benjamin
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