We’re All Just Making It Up: Talking with Steve Hughes
Steve Hughes discusses his debut story collection, STIFF.
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Posts Tagged: short stories
Rumpus Original Fiction: Flap
A flap to determine entry, or deny it. A flap whose failure determines choking.
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Radical Freedom: Talking with Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Chaya Bhuvaneswar discusses her debut story collection, WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS.
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Transformations: A Conversation with Genevieve Hudson
Genevieve Hudson discusses her debut story collection, PRETEND WE LIVE HERE.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #158: Paige Cooper
“The leaps that fill in the gaps between ideas are the best thing about reading.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: An Other Man
This is a carousel that never slows to a point where you can board gracefully.
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A Healing Exploration: Micah Perks’s True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
Stories are the miracle, and the escape, promised by the book’s title.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #155: Bonnie Chau
“There’s always the thought that there’s more, there’s something else, something more than this.”
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Myths and Mothers: A Conversation with Daisy Johnson
Daisy Johnson discusses EVERYTHING UNDER.
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Writing in Earnest: Talking with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses FRIDAY BLACK.
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All Tied Up and Slipping Away: Talking with Micah Perks
Micah Perks discusses TRUE LOVE AND OTHER MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
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In the Spirit of Curiosity: Talking with Jamel Brinkley
Jamel Brinkley discusses his debut story collection, A LUCKY MAN.
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Rumpus Exclusive: The Intro to PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018
But there is freedom and possibility in not knowing.
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What to Read When You Want Short Stories
A list of books to celebrate the release of the forthcoming anthology, Everyday People: The Color of Life!
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Fidelity to Deep Emotion: Lauren Groff’s Florida
The sentence is Groff’s most fertile ground.
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What We’re Reading in August!
Find out what The Rumpus Book Club is reading in August!
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Thrown Off Balance: Talking with Malinda McCollum
Malinda McCollum discusses her debut story collection, THE SURPRISING PLACE.
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Any Day Now: A Conversation with Anjali Sachdeva
Anjali Sachdeva discusses her debut story collection, ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD.
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Brain Soup and Making Things: A Conversation with Rita Bullwinkel
Rita Bullwinkel discusses her debut story collection, Belly Up, the foolishness of writing, and what went into the making of her first book.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Last Civilized House” by Lee Martin
Once upon a time, there was a man and a wife and a child that the wife decided she didn’t want.
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A Heart-Centered Engagement: Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Thompson-Spires illustrate[s] the psychic traps set when myths take precedence over lived experience, when “the monstrous head deforms the face.”
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Renee Simms
Renee Simms discusses her debut collection, Meet Behind Mars, leaving law to become a writer, and writing through major life changes.
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Change Is Necessary: A Conversation with Kristen Arnett
Kristen Arnett discusses her debut collection, Felt in the Jaw, how place informs writing, and deciding to hold her book release party at a local 7-Eleven.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado discusses Her Body and Other Parties, riffing off the work of others, and how writing is like solving a math problem.
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Tarnished, Shiny Exteriors: Kate Braverman’s A Good Day for Seppuku
With A Good Day for Seppuku, Braverman has written a collection of intense images and exacting language
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Just Doing It: A Conversation with Daniel Ortberg
Mallory Ortberg discusses their new book, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, what it means to be a self-taught writer, and questioning gender.
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These Women Are Ready to Scream: Danielle Lazarin’s Back Talk
Lazarin has written her heart out chronicling the lives of recognizable girls and women as they come of age, find their footing and chart their path through life’s curves, on their own terms.
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The Third Iago Sensibility: A Conversation with Laurie Stone
Laurie Stone discusses her story collection, My Life as an Animal, writing about death, how the reader doesn’t care about you, and the Third Iago.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Rebecca
Grace shook her head, surprised by both her reluctance to speak and her impulse to lie. She had seen many photos of Rebecca.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #124: Anne Raeff
“I guess that’s true when you write a novel, you end up taking out so much.”
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