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Digital Space Is Real Space: Talking with A.E. Osworth

  • Eve Ettinger
  • April 7, 2021
A.E. Osworth discusses their debut novel, WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT.
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Nodding to the Unknowable: A Conversation with Theodore Wheeler

  • Ryan Borchers
  • January 29, 2021
Theodore Wheeler discusses his new novel, IN OUR OTHER LIVES.
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Reality Is Absurd: Talking with Ted O’Connell

  • Aatif Rashid
  • May 29, 2020
Ted O'Connell discusses his first book, K: A NOVEL.
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Both Past and Present: A Conversation with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

  • Jessica Wilbanks
  • January 6, 2020
Poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo discusses his debut memoir, CHILDREN OF THE LAND.
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Moments within Days within Seasons: Talking with Alicia Mountain

  • Justin Wymer
  • June 20, 2018
Alicia Mountain discusses her debut collection, High Ground Coward, the surveillance state, and queer representation in the poetry world. 
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The Life of the Mind: A Conversation with Elizabeth Scanlon

  • Emma Winsor Wood
  • June 18, 2018
Elizabeth Scanlon discusses her debut full-length collection, Lonesome Gnosis, brains and trains, and poetry as prayer.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kea Wilson

  • Ryan Krull
  • March 13, 2017
Kea Wilson discusses her debut novel We Eat Our Own, the influence of film on her work, and what she's learned from working as a bookseller.
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Language Lesson and Surveillance by Ashaki M. Jackson

  • Kenji C. Liu
  • November 23, 2016
Kenji Liu reviews Ashaki M. Jackson's Language Lesson and Surveillance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Eden of the Surveillance State

  • Michelle Vider
  • February 22, 2016
Participation in our own surveillance was the price of entry into heaven. In the Winter 2016 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Amanda Power writes on the history (real and mythological) of…
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The Circle Is Watching

  • Inge Oosterhoff
  • January 25, 2016
In a world where boundaries between private and public are already blurring, Tim and Nicolaas wanted to find out what would happen if those boundaries disappeared altogether.
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The FBI’s James Baldwin Obsession

  • Dinah Fay
  • February 25, 2015
Writing for Publishers Weekly, William J. Maxwell examines the 1,884-page FBI file on James Baldwin—the longest on record—as part of his effort to obtain surveillance information on African American authors…
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Good Writing and Bad Surveillance

  • Lyz Lenz
  • December 18, 2014
The idea of “good writing” is shaped by social forces—that are in turn shaped by economic and historical forces—and our own identity privileges and privileges as editors (if we are…
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