Language Is Sensational: A Conversation with Eileen G’Sell
Eileen G’Sell discusses her debut collection, Life After Rugby, how and why she chose her book’s title, and challenging gender categories.
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Posts Tagged: Terrence Malick
Words as Events: A Conversation with Jeff Wood
Jeff Wood discusses The Glacier, his genre-bending book combining novel, poetry, screenplay, and collage, how heritage has become a brand, and the American Midwest.
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Every Woman Is a Nation unto Herself: A Conversation with Sabina Murray
Sabina Murray discusses the novel Valiant Gentleman, writing characters that are fundamentally different from herself, and confronting issues of colonization.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel talks about his debut short story collection, Upright Beasts, his interest in monsters, and what sources of culture outside of literature inspire him.
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Paper Trumpets #13: Land of Plenty
Most turkeys, even uncooked ones, cannot fly very well. This must be a magical floating turkey.
...moreThe Tree of Life, in Review
The New York Review of Books’ look into Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life compares it to the prose of William James, discussing the film’s attempt at “embodying what cannot actually be embodied,” via question-posing dialogue and displays of varying scales of the world. It’s a review of Malick’s current film, in the context of […]
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