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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan
“Memoir is about recreating the complexities of a life.”
Rumpus Exclusive: “The Beautiful Dead”
It was personal, as the detectives on my favorite shows always said.
Ode to Girlhood: Olivia Gatwood’s Life of the Party
The world that suffocates girls still has a lot to learn from them.
No One Is Disposable: Talking with Emma Copley Eisenberg
Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL.
The Uncovered Story: A Conversation with Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman discusses her newest novel, LADY IN THE LAKE.
Strong Island’s Horizon
Whose lives are visible? Whose pain is just? Whose grief is vocal? Such inquiry is not rhetorical.
The Logic of the Book: Talking with Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich discusses The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, the importance of narrative structure, and the difference between facts and stories.
How The Keepers Reframes Confession as a Feminist Act
Critics have noted how The Keepers is similar to other prestige documentaries but with a significant difference—its focus on the victims and their stories.
Casting JonBenét and the Pageantry of Brokenness
It is an uncomfortable admission, but we hunger for stories that sensationalize the extremes of human behavior. We want to crawl under the police tape and see the outlines of bodies.
The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Eden Robinson
I don’t really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.
The Real True Detective
Before True Detective, the TV show, there was True Detective, the pulp magazine with stories like “Sex Monster At Large” and “I Hit Her with the Bowling Pin.” True Crime…