The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #177: Grace Talusan
“I was moved to write the unspeakable and unsayable.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #176: Richard Chiem
“How can I make the prose feel rich but also accessible?”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #175: Mira Jacob
“I wanted it to feel like it was done with urgency because it was.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #174: Melissa Rivero
“[W]e don’t see the complexity of the individual experience.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #173: Hanif Abdurraqib
“I mostly hope that upon putting down this book, a reader crafts their own love letter to someone living.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #172: Leanne Shapton
“I see objects and things as reliquaries that can hold stories.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #171: Angie Kim
“All in all, it took six years—one year of preparing and marinating, two years of drafting, then three years of revising!”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #170: Richard Blanco
“I guess you could say that engineering paved the road to poetry for me, pardon the pun.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #168: Keir Graff
“I’ve always loved collaboration. It was so exciting, because I love the energy. ”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #167: Josh Denslow
“It was a relief to be out of the confines of scriptwriting. I was having fun again.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #165: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #164: Sarah McColl
“What do you do when everything falls apart? Anything you want.”