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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #71: Kris D’Agostino

In Kris D’Agostino’s second novel, The Antiques, he returns to familiar forms: A dysfunctional family whose members are in various stages of arrested development; a generational home in upstate New…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #70: Jean Conner

Jean Conner was married to Bruce Conner from 1957 until his death in 2008. As a result, she tends to be overshadowed by her husband’s larger than life reputation as…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #69: Steven Schwartz

Steven Schwartz’s new book, Madagascar: New and Selected Stories, positively aches (often sighs, sometimes chuckles) with wisdom. Steven understands people. He understands why they do what they do, how they…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #68: David Kukoff

“To read,” wrote E.M. Cioran, “is to let someone else do the work for you.” Indeed, David Kukoff has done extensive footwork collecting an array of varied experiences to give…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #67: Anuradha Roy

A tranquil beach town named Jarmuli is the setting of Anuradha Roy’s third novel, Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and made the longlist…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #66: Reimagining Children’s Literature as Mixtape

In the best collaborations, creative individuals push themselves to work with new media and singular, wild things issue forth. Jeff Antebi of Waxploitation Records has managed to create just this…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #65: Amy Dupcak

I first met Amy Dupcak at The Book Report Network in 2011, where she was an editorial assistant and I, a marketing assistant. We’d shoot off AOL Instant Messages to…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #64: Lianne Stokes

Hi there! We’re the two brunettes who hate sex. Sara-Kate hates sex because it’s too aerobic—she once sprained her foot. She lives in Kips Bay, loves candy, and wears exclusively…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden

Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #62: Julian Tepper

Upon publication of his first novel, Balls, author Julian Tepper received pointed advice from one Philip Roth: quit. What the elder statesman, on the verge of his own retirement, was…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #61: Thalia Field

Thalia Field’s latest work, Experimental Animals: (A Reality Fiction), published by Solid Objects, is a novel that makes you wonder anew about the possibilities of the genre. Told in the…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #60: Leah Kaminsky

Leah Kaminsky’s debut novel, The Waiting Room, depicts one fateful day in the life of an Australian doctor and mother, Dina, living in Haifa, Israel. Dina is trying to maintain…

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