Interestingness Is Always There: Talking with Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell discusses HOW TO DO NOTHING: RESISTING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY.
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All These Ostriches: A Conversation with R. Eric Thomas
R. Eric Thomas discusses his debut memoir-in-essays, HERE FOR IT.
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Deleting Your Photos in a Poppy Field
It took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
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Stay Free: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
Cha constructs a Los Angeles sharply different from most representations of the city.
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Hurry Up and Wait: Literary Community Is a Platform
What exactly is a platform? How do you create one?
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #196: Alan Chazaro
“[P]art of writing is cementing some sort of memory.”
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The Last Book I Loved: Re-reading Dana Levin’s Banana Palace in 2019
In such a context, Dana Levin’s particular apocalypses deserve another look.
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Art, Action, and Redaction: A Conversation with Isobel O’Hare
Isobel O’Hare discusses her debut full-length collection, ALL THIS CAN BE YOURS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #190: R.L. Maizes
“We all fail to do the right thing some of the time.”
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A Place for Magic, a Place for Joy: Talking with Keah Brown
Keah Brown discusses her debut essay collection, THE PRETTY ONE.
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Trudging Down Death Road
Reveal yourself. Reveal yourself. You cannot be dead. Reveal yourself.
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A Complicated, Shifting Subjectivity: Talking with Franny Choi
Franny Choi discusses her second collection, SOFT SCIENCE.
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How I Love Her: On Depression and Suicidal Ideation
Maybe the worst part about living with this is that it doesn’t leave me.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #175: Mira Jacob
“I wanted it to feel like it was done with urgency because it was.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #172: Leanne Shapton
“I see objects and things as reliquaries that can hold stories.”
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Pronk: On Still Life Painting and the Price of Showing Off
Everything is political. To believe otherwise is a form of willful ignorance.
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The Mentor Series: Allie Rowbottom and Maggie Nelson
Debut author Allie Rowbottom interviews her mentor, Maggie Nelson.
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The Thread: Down Girl
Misogyny reminds us of our place: down girl.
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How Langston Hughes Inspired #TweetYourThobe
Langston, I am finally at the table, eating with everyone.
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Notes of Dissent: Lessons from a Family Volvo
Through drill, artists have a means of exploring and challenging the political marginalization of their voices.
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Equal Rights Never Go out of Style: Talking with Monica Prince
Monica Prince discusses writing, advocacy, and the art of the choreopoem.
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Return to Green Gables: A Conversation with Sarah McCoy
Sarah McCoy discusses MARILLA OF GREEN GABLES.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kyle Dargan
Kyle Dargan discusses his new collection, ANAGNORISIS.
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The Inward Place: A Conversation with Claudia Dey
Claudia Dey discusses her first American release, HEARTBREAKER.
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People You May Know
Staring at that profile picture, I couldn’t not click.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #88: Music for the Masses
The interview, like the project Iso Omena, is both funny and revealing.
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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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A Pointed Narrative Choice: Talking with Lydia Kiesling
Lydia Kiesling discusses her debut novel, THE GOLDEN STATE.
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When We Were Friends
Our eyes are bleary, but we are laughing, the kind of laugh that comes before tears.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Taylor Mulitz’s Social Media Mentors
I’ve always had a voyeuristic relationship with social media.
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