The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #134: Elisabeth Cohen
"Writing is, for me, maybe like what religious faith is for some people."
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #133: Jake Shears
“I wrote this book. I worked really, really hard on it, and I was a little scared by it.”
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #132: Juliana Hatfield
"These songs are not just sweet confections. They’re talking about real things, like pain, and not being able to connect."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #131: Lisa Wells
"I always feel like I’m starting over. I don’t know how I ever wrote a poem. I really do have that feeling."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #129: L.A. Johnson
"Right now California is burning and yet there’s snow on mountains that I can also see from my window."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #128: Dunya Mikhail
"All art is somehow a kind of witness, whether to beauty or to anything else."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #127: Tara Skurtu
"A poem is not a perfect puzzle, yet it is precisely a perfect puzzle."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #126: Christopher Zeischegg
"Being thrust into forced ritualistic closeness does break the ice, but doesn’t guarantee closeness."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #125: Tyree Daye
"I think if you are really doing the work, you can’t write about America and not explore race and slavery, and that goes for any writer."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #124: Anne Raeff
"I guess that’s true when you write a novel, you end up taking out so much."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #123: Erica Garza
"[T]here was something really empowering about being honest and open about this part of myself. Somehow, writing helped lessen the shame."
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #122: Nathan Hill
"Write what you want to write, he said, and let other people deal with taxonomies."