First Novels and the Art of Revision
Most first novels are really second novels, since most first novels go unpublished. Writing for ZYZZYVA, Rumpus contributor Aaron Gilbreath talks through his experience having his debut memoir...
View ArticleThe Joy of Writing
What happens when writing ceases to be enjoyable? Over at Beyond the Margins, Dell Smith discusses how the joy of writing must eventually yield to the joy of a finished draft because while writing...
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The Rumpus Interview with Thomas H. McNeely
In Thomas H. McNeely’s breathtaking debut novel, Ghost Horse, Buddy Turner’s family has fragmented around issues of betrayal, class, and race. Father, mother, grandmothers on both sides—these adults...
View ArticleTechnology Never Forgets
Draftback is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to watch every keystroke of every revision made to a Google Doc played back to you, opening up a new way to study how writers write. Chadwick...
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex #14: Liz Prato
I can’t remember exactly when I met Liz Prato. She claims down below that it was at Wordstock, that lovely ink-stained Portland conclave. But I’m always so stoned those weekends that I wind up at...
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jonathan Travelstead
I get an email from Cobalt Press. The publisher I work with there is super excited about the new poetry collection they’re editing. The collection is titled How We Bury Our Dead and the poems are the...
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Dinty W. Moore
Creative nonfiction, in its modern incarnation, is a relatively new genre, and Dinty W. Moore is, through both his writing and his stewardship of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction,...
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The Rumpus Interview with Karolina Waclawiak
When I recently went to the Los Angeles launch of Karolina Waclawiak’s newest novel The Invaders, I was intrigued by her thoughts on how women are devalued as they age. That said, I was a little...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jonterri Gadson
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Jonterri Gadson about her new collection Blues Triumphant, her love of editing, and the intersection of poetry and comedy writing.This is an edited transcript of...
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The Rumpus Interview with Maryse Meijer
In Maryse Meijer’s debut collection, Heartbreaker, there is no unnecessary adornment, nothing to detract from the dark torrents that move the stories forward. Taboo, sex, gendered power, and violence...
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Tommy Pico
Tommy Pico’s IRL is a stunning book-length lyrical poem following the mind of a contemporary Kumeyaay man, Teebs, living in New York City. The book opens with a risky text that Teebs sends to his...
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The Rumpus Interview with D. Foy
Reading D. Foy is like stepping on a hornet nest—in the best way! His prose is topnotch, sonic and squalid and beautiful. He also knows how to spin a hell of a yarn.His new novel Patricide is a...
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Abeer Hoque
I’m grateful to fellow women writers of color who reach out to recommend interviewees for this column. When I received an email asking if I’d be interested in meeting a Nigerian-born,...
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Writing Romance: The Rumpus Interview with Sonali Dev
Sonali Dev’s latest novel, A Change of Heart, tells a story of love and healing set against the violent backdrop of India’s illegal organ trade. Two years after the murder of Jen, a young doctor...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Julie Buntin
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Julie Buntin about her debut novel, Marlena, the writers and books that influenced it, tackling addiction with compassion, and the magic of teenage girls. This is an...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #81: Chanelle Benz
Chanelle Benz’s debut collection, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, is filled with characters often facing a moral crossroads. The stories contain the unexpected, like a classic Western complete...
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Ambiguity as a Daily Experience: Talking with Jess Arndt
Life within a body is hard. In Large Animals, Jess Arndt takes a truth so obvious that we tend to ignore it and renders that truth absurd, hilarious, and a little bit redemptive. As someone who defines...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #91: Meghan Lamb
Author Meghan Lamb‘s new novel, Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace, March 2017), is a book that cuts to the core of disturbance. In it, a woman is struck by an inexplicable and undiagnosable illness that...
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Can We Even Trust Ourselves?: A Conversation with Jac Jemc
Jac Jemc’s new novel, The Grip of It, opens with a young couple moving into a new home. James and Julie find a house just outside of the city where they met, and though we learn more about their...
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The Inner and Outer Self: A Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
In Six Memos for the Millenium, Italo Calvino identifies the qualities he aims for in his work: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, but died before finishing his sixth memo on...
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