Both Scholarly and Poetic: A Conversation with Xandria Phillips
I first encountered Xandria Phillips’s work a few years ago while reading the always impressive Winter Tangerine, of which they are the poetry editor, curating the some of the best contemporary poetry...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Book Club Chat with Tracy O’Neill
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Tracy O’Neill about her new novel, Quotients (Soho Press, May 2020), the extensive research she did while writing, how the book’s design came to be, using syntax as a...
View ArticleWho Has the Most to Lose?: A Conversation with Julian K. Jarboe
When I finished Julian K. Jarboe’s debut short story collection Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel, I was struck by how well they captured a world that was ours, but not quite ours. All the...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Mini-interview Project: Andrea Bartz
The best kinds of thrillers strike a delicate balance: They’re lightning-paced and deliciously twisty of course, but they also have something to say. That’s why I so enjoyed Andrea Bartz’s The Herd, a...
View ArticleWe’re All Difficult Women Now: Talking with Avni Doshi
Avni Doshi’s debut novel, Burnt Sugar, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and will be released in the US next month from Overlook Press, has been published in more than twenty languages....
View ArticleThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with torrin greathouse
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with torrin greathouse about her new collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, December 2020), inventing forms, revenge poems, how the pandemic...
View ArticleWhy We Believe What We Believe: A Conversation with Dantiel W. Moniz
Dantiel W. Moniz’s debut story collection, Milk Blood Heat, just published this week from Grove Atlantic, but you might’ve already encountered her work in the Paris Review, Tin House, One Story,...
View ArticleTo Move Forward but Not Forget: Talking with Chloe Yelena Miller
An estimated one on four women will endure a miscarriage in their lifetime. Yet, the experience of miscarriage is often mired in silence. We sometimes struggle to find the right words to get across the...
View ArticleWriting toward Meaning: A Conversation with Ethel Rohan
In the Event of Contact is my mother’s fourth full-length book and the first book of hers that I’ve read. Her debut short story collection, Cut Through the Bone, was published when I was ten years old....
View ArticleThe Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lilly Dancyger
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Lilly Dancyger about her debut memoir, Negative Space (Santa Fe Writers Project, May 2021), the book’s long road to publication, learning that conflicting truths can...
View ArticleAs Complicated as Possible: Talking with Leesa Cross-Smith
In her second novel (and fourth book) This Close to Okay, Leesa Cross-Smith continues to prove why Roxane Gay called her “a consummate storyteller.” As a big fan, my advice when it comes to reading...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Book Club Chat with Wendy J. Fox
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Wendy J. Fox about her new story collection, What If We Were Somewhere Else (Santa Fe Writers Project, November 2021), how she approached writing a book of linked...
View ArticleThe Burden of Translation: Talking with Leonora Simonovis
The first time I heard Leonora Simonovis read, in June of 2020, at Antioch University of Los Angeles, I was holding my breath in silent awe. I was undone by the language, a mixture of Spanish and...
View ArticleDisclosing Disability and Finding Freedom: Talking with James Tate Hill
Many writers know James Tate Hill as the fantastic fiction editor of Monkeybicycle. He’s a wonderful supporter of new writers who also relishes the nuances of punctuation. When we worked together in...
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