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I interviewed author, Sarah Kilborne, who lives in the same town as I do, Hudson, New York, and takes banjo lessons downstairs in my father’s music store that I live…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #44: Beverly Parayno in Conversation with Gregory

Gregory is an eighty-two-year-old Russian Jewish man who works across the aisle from me at a nonprofit community center in Palo Alto. I’d always been curious about why he was…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #43: Alana Voth in Conversation with Her Facebook Friend, Terry Gearlds

Terry Gearlds and I have never met. We’re friends on Facebook. We share some stuff in common like True Blood and horror movies. Also, anytime either of us see a…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #42: Aimee Loiselle in Conversation with Grace Smith

I met Grace Smith (Yup’ik) when I was researching an article for The Circle, a Native American newspaper in the Twin Cities. The Native community in the Twin Cities is…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #41: Alex Behr in Conversation with Margaret Murray

I heard about Margaret Murray before I met her: strange rumors about her being a kept woman in LA and a sad, true story of her apartment burning down in…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #40: Chelsea Biondolillo in Conversation with a Ghost Hunter

My sister is six years younger, and as kids we never got along. In high school, I went through a phase that involved a lot of sneaking out to drink…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #39: Luuk Imhann in Conversation with a Fisherman

There’s fisherman who is famous in my town in northern Holland, near the sea. They say he has been around the world a few times, so I thought I would…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #38: Alana Noël Voth in Conversation with Her Best Friend, Judy Salamon

I’ve known Judy Salamon two years. We work together, and she’s one of the main reasons I enjoy my job. Judy tells the best stories. She’s also a kind and…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #37: Rachel Ann Brickner in Conversation with Varun Bhandari

Varun and I met shortly before we graduated from college, and then I moved across the country. We remained in good touch until he visited me. We fought and then…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #36: Tom DeMarchi in Conversation with Angie Lucas

Angie is my nineteen-month-old son Charlie’s nanny. She’s been living with us since October 12, 2010. Angie is thirty years old, and is currently reading John Williams’s novel Stoner.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #35: Alex Behr in Conversation with Terri Manning

In the late 1980s, Terri Manning and her sister, Barbara, lived in one of San Francisco’s painted ladies near Golden Gate Park. This lady, a huge, rambling Victorian with peeling paint,…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #34: Robert Tumas in Conversation with Brian, his BFF

When last we heard from Brian he had gotten work as a Xerox copier mechanic in his hometown of Rochester, New York. Robert Tumas’s latest conversation with his itinerant best…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #45: Chloe Caldwell in Conversation with Sarah Kilborne

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #44: Beverly Parayno in Conversation with Gregory

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #43: Alana Voth in Conversation with Her Facebook Friend, Terry Gearlds

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #42: Aimee Loiselle in Conversation with Grace Smith

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #41: Alex Behr in Conversation with Margaret Murray

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #40: Chelsea Biondolillo in Conversation with a Ghost Hunter

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #39: Luuk Imhann in Conversation with a Fisherman

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #38: Alana Noël Voth in Conversation with Her Best Friend, Judy Salamon

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #37: Rachel Ann Brickner in Conversation with Varun Bhandari

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #36: Tom DeMarchi in Conversation with Angie Lucas

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #35: Alex Behr in Conversation with Terri Manning

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #34: Robert Tumas in Conversation with Brian, his BFF

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