Learning the Hard Way: A Conversation with Kate Baer
Kate Baer discusses her new poetry collection, HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL.
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The Moment Moves On: A Conversation with Wendy J. Fox
Wendy J. Fox discusses her new story collection, WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE?
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Long Live the Book: Jessica Pressman’s Bookishness
It opens a field of inquiry that stretches to the far corners of culture.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kaveh Akbar
Kaveh Akbar discusses his new collection, PILGRIM BELL.
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A Psychogeographical Bildungsroman: Talking with Jo Hamya
Jo Hamya discusses her debut novel, THREE ROOMS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Elizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
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Panic Mode: The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld
Cyclical patterns of journalism notwithstanding, Gladstone sees this moment as uniquely concerning.
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Trust in Action: Talking with the Editors of Fat and Queer
Co-editors Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini discuss FAT AND QUEER.
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The Space Between Vertebrae
My hands grow cold and rigid. In those blue-tinged palms, I can see my future.
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The Seductive Nature of Faith: Talking with Alex McElroy
Alex McElroy discusses their debut novel, THE ATMOSPHERIANS.
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The Art of Striving to Convince: A Conversation with Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken discusses her new story collection, THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM.
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Working from Memories of Memories: A Conversation with Lauren Hough
Lauren Hough discusses her debut essay collection, LEAVING ISN’T THE HARDEST THING.
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Nowhere to Go but Deeper into the Self: Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts
Who said great literature has to make the reader feel good?
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My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
It’s true that when I speak of machines I also mean dimensions.
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Agency Over Anything Else: Talking with Elle Nash
Elle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
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Everything Is Malleable: Talking with Lauren Oyler
Lauren Oyler discusses her debut novel, FAKE ACCOUNTS.
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Unprepared Blue Birds
In deep grief, we rotate inside of a funhouse.
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The Inescapability of Motherhood: Makenna Goodman’s The Shame
When the novel begins, Alma is in the car, speeding away from her life.
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The Danger Is Beauty: Talking with Éireann Lorsung
Éireann Lorsung discusses her new collection of poetry, THE CENTURY.
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Save St. Mark’s
It is fifteen years after the renovation, and St. Mark’s struggles to breathe.
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What Society Allows Us to Be: Megha Majumdar’s A Burning
What does it mean to be free?
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Owning Your Piles: A Conversation with Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith discusses her new book, KEEP MOVING.
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Grateful Maniacs: A Conversation with Dawn Davies
Dawn Davies discusses her debut memoir, MOTHERS OF SPARTA.
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No Story Ever Really Ends: Talking with Amy Long
Amy Long discusses her debut book, CODEPENDENCE.
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Bring the Inward Outward: Talking with Greg Mania
Greg Mania discusses his debut memoir, BORN TO BE PUBLIC.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #229: Joshua Harmon
“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”
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On Empathy, Complexity, and Whimsy: Talking with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil discusses her new book, WORLD OF WONDERS.
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The Sealey Challenge
The Challenge creates community through ongoing engagement with it.
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The Mentor Series: Emily J. Smith and Chloe Caldwell
Emily J. Smith interviews her mentor, Chloe Caldwell.
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