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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #228: Alden Jones

  • Mathina Calliope
  • August 13, 2020
“You can make any topic enough in the telling.”
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Room to Roam: Talking with Karen Auvinen

  • Kristen A. Schmitt
  • June 14, 2019
Karen Auvinen discusses her debut memoir, ROUGH BEAUTY.
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Messy and Complicated and Real: Talking with Laura Pritchett

  • Carrie La Seur
  • March 9, 2018
Author Laura Pritchett discusses her two most recent books, death, sex, and being rural in modern America.
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How to Write Wilderness

  • Jake Slovis
  • July 27, 2016
At The Millions, Mary Catherine Martin responds to the flaws she found in Dave Eggers’s representation of the Alaskan wilderness in his most recent novel, Heroes of the Frontier. She explains…
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The Rumpus Review of The Witch

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • March 10, 2016
The most interesting part of The Witch is that the family is so convinced of humanity’s fallen, sinful nature that it never occurs to them to even look for an aggressor from without.
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Like Thoreau, But Not

  • Mary Allen
  • January 28, 2016
Writers for generation have sought out the solitude of the wilderness to get their work done. But sometimes it’s not as romantic as we hope.
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Armored in Cars and Driving Unseen

  • Leah Williams
  • July 8, 2015
America is a beautiful country and it was beautiful before we got here. I’m not sure yet if we, the ancestral echo of colonizers, are a beautiful people. I often have doubts.
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