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We’re All Just Making It Up: Talking with Steve Hughes

  • Andy Mozina
  • January 11, 2019
Steve Hughes discusses his debut story collection, STIFF.
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This Week in Books: Civilianized: A Young Veteran’s Memoir

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • January 2, 2017
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and…
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The Rumpus Interview with J. Aaron Sanders

  • Joe Miller
  • February 29, 2016
J. Aaron Sanders discusses his debut novel, Speakers of the Dead, his writing process, and the wisdom of sharing his early drafts with his students.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jonathan Travelstead

  • Ben Tanzer
  • August 30, 2015
I try to...consider the writing process as seriously as I do entering a house with black smoke puffing from its eaves.
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The Rumpus Interview with Mary Roach

  • Mike Scalise
  • August 2, 2010
Mary Roach discusses Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, the rigors of interviewing aerospace administrators, and why that process nearly caused her to abandon the book entirely. 
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