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The House of Fiction Has Many Rooms: Talking with Sigrid Nunez

  • Jess deCourcy Hinds
  • February 5, 2018
Sigrid Nunez discusses her seventh novel, The Friend, her fondness for writing about animals, and the ways the literary world has changed.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #116: David Lazar

  • S. Ferdowsi
  • December 28, 2017
"Becoming an essayist has always seemed to me as a bit of a pratfall."
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How to Write About Your Disability

  • Rebecca Swanson
  • June 28, 2017
It’s like having the hiccups, you write instead. Everyone has had hiccups, after all. Accuracy is secondary to relatability, because you are tired, now, and twitchy, and the giant’s hands are pressing harder as you write.
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Storytelling Is a Search: An Interview with Sequoia Nagamatsu

  • Melissa Goodrich
  • April 3, 2017
Sequoia Nagamatsu discusses his debut collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, grief as a character, and the intersection of ancient myth and the modern world.
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FUNNY WOMEN #151: Creative Writing Tips

  • Anita Gill
  • March 14, 2017
Need to write something for some reason? Here's how.
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The Real Lives of Working Writers

  • The Rumpus
  • February 8, 2017
Bestselling and award-winning writers Danielle Trussoni and Walter Kirn host the Writerly podcast, a weekly discussion of all things pertaining to the real lives of working writers. From getting and…
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The Rumpus Interview with Alice Mattison

  • Stephanie Trott
  • November 25, 2016
Alice Mattison discusses her newest book, The Kite and the String, a meditation on her lifelong journey through the craft of writing, the joys of teaching writing, and the importance of community.
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The Daily Struggle

  • Wendy MacLeod
  • November 25, 2016
Lord knows the world has changed since I wrote this talk, but when the world falls to pieces around us, especially when the world falls to pieces, writers will still…
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You Cross Me, and There Will (Not) Be Consequences

  • Adam Keller
  • October 21, 2016
Zines come and go. Editors move around. It’s rare that a story can’t possibly sell to anyplace but Grandiose Editor’s Power Trip Quarterly. I know when you’re new, anyone ahead…
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Broken Bones and Old Songs: A Novelist’s Fight to Keep Memory Alive

  • Warren Adler
  • October 14, 2016
Memory is the machine of creativity—its heart and soul.
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That Painful Money Subject

  • David Breithaupt
  • October 11, 2016
Os&1s Reads’s The Art of Commerce talks with Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back, about the relationship between writers and money: Publishing is a machine that does what it does. You’re grateful,…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #7: The Art of the Accidental Selfie

  • Charles Kruger
  • October 7, 2016
One recent hot weekday afternoon, I told my partner—the guy who created the “Punk the Muse” logo and draws its cartoons—that I wanted to get out and about. We’d been…
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