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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #33: A Touch of Goth in Old New York’s Little Italy

When your mother-in-law pushes aside Elizabeth Street, the acclaimed novel by Laurie Fabiano, and says “She didn’t get it right,” it’s time to pull up a chair and listen. Christina…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #32: Rebecca Steinitz in Conversation with a Chef

My husband, Sam Putnam, is the chef of a popular new restaurant, which I’m not going to name because it’s already gotten plenty of publicity. I wanted to interview him…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #31: Alex Behr in Conversation with “Eric Larson”

I met Eric Larson (a pseudonym) in a Bay Area writing workshop around ten years ago. He’s had the most intriguing job of anyone I’ve met in that often-myopic fiction-writing…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #30: Paula Whyman in Conversation with SM Shrake

Paula Whyman talks with SM Shrake about his annual witch costume in The Rumpus’s thirtieth mini-interview!

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #29: Brian Hansen in Conversation with C.W.

Three years ago I interviewed a number of friends in their mid-twenties, seemingly bright kids with no direction. I lost the digital recordings; here is all that remains from an interview…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #28: Alex Behr in Conversation with “The Fugitive”

Dave “The Fugitive” Jansen, thirty, is a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter with Oregon’s Team Quest Fight Club. Our talks took place prior to his World Extreme Cage Fighting…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #27: Chris Graham in Conversation with Aaron Wendland

Aaron Wendland is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he works on Heidegger and reads widely in the history of philosophy. Originally from Canada, Aaron…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #26: Alex Behr in Conversation with Lucinda X

The last time I saw Lucinda was around July 4, 2003. Marching around with sparklers in her back yard, drinking beer and laughing, she showed no ill-effects of being a…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #25: Chris Graham in Conversation in a Syrian Taxi

Mohaned works at a small hotel in Palmyra, a desert town in northeast Syria. On the side, he helps a friend pitch taxi rides to tourists. (Mohaned speaks Arabic and…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #24: Richard “The Ballbuster” Butterfield in Conversation with Cynthia Bregova

I know very little about Richard. I know that he is from Rhode Island, Jewish, has lived in Puebla, Mexico for twenty years, lives and owns an antiques store with his…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #23: Katherine Tanney in Conversation with John Langford

John grew up in Hong Kong, the son of a missionary. Before becoming a commercial photographer he was a radio disc jockey, oil field roustabout, pizza delivery guy, and funeral…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #22: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Alex Smith

Alex Smith lives in New York City, where he works as a homepage editor at MSN and as a freelance contributor for the New Yorker. During the interview, Alex drank…

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