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Bridging Narratives: Talking with Jenn Shapland
While studying for her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, Jenn Shapland got to live out a fantasy of literary scholars everywhere: she was granted access to the abundant archive of writers’ and...
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Being Human: A Conversation with Porochista Khakpour
The first time I ever heard of Porochista Khakpour was when I stumbled upon her GoFundMe page in 2012. At the time, the author had just been diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease and had, she wrote,...
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Writing into the Void: Talking with Mary Jo Salter
Mary Jo Salter’s eight books of poetry span a life: childhood, adolescence, motherhood, and so on. And now the latest, The Surveyors, creates a kaleidoscope of humor, heartache, and tenderness. Amidst...
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Chewing Rocks: A Conversation with David Biespiel
In bohemian Boston in the 1980s, above Comm Ave by Ringer Park, young David Biespiel, a New England transplant from Houston, verbally spars with the droves of friends who come and leave in plumes of...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #88: Sarah Gerard
Sarah Gerard’s dazzling second book, Sunshine State, is a collection of essays interlacing narrative nonfiction and personal essay. The thirty-one year old Brooklynite teaches nonfiction and writes a...
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The Rumpus Interview with Jerald Walker
Jerald Walker grew up believing the world would end when he was twelve. His parents—both blind—had joined the Worldwide Church of God at its height in the 1960s. The Church would later prove to be a...
View ArticleThe Truth of Brushstrokes or Brushstrokes of Truth?
Autofiction is in these days. Discussing her first novel Fantasian at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins blog, Larissa Pham unpacks her perspective on inserting autobiographical...
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The Rumpus Interview with Jane Alison
While Jane Alison was hard at work translating a series of erotic passages into plain, charged English for her fifth book, Change Me: Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid, another story kept...
View ArticleThe Words We Use to Describe Life Stories
To an English-speaker, the difference between “autobiography” and “memoir” seems intuitive. But in German, there’s no equivalent of the word “memoir.” At Lit Hub, Tara Bray Smith muses on the...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Janice N. Harrington
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Janice N. Harrington about her new collection Primitive, the challenge of working with a real-life subject’s language, and critiquing the use of “primitive” to...
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The Rumpus Interview with Nina Stibbe
I doubt she did it just to endear herself to Americans later on, but Nina Stibbe was a high school dropout. She left home, a land I can romanticize and redact à la Jane Austen as ———shire, in her late...
View ArticleSoldiers-Turned-Authors on War Literature
For NPR Books, Quil Lawrence talks with a handful of soldiers-turned-authors about the genre of war literature that has been catalyzed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These authors want their...
View ArticleEmpire State of Memoir
For Lit Hub, Edward White writes about Jay Z and Morrissey’s experimental memoirs, investigating how both artists indulge and subvert what readers want from a musician’s autobiography:Where Morrissey...
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The Rumpus Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel
When speaking with Amy Rose Spiegel, two things become immediately apparent: she is whip-smart, able to perfectly synthesize the sociological and physiological constraints of sexual politics into a...
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The Rumpus Interview with Brian Blanchfield
The essays in Brian Blanchfield’s Proxies move nimbly from cultural critique to memoir and back again. The essay “On Tumbleweed” begins with Brian, on his lunch break out for a drive, encountering a...
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The Rumpus Interview with Lynn Steger Strong
I first met Lynn Steger Strong last fall in the cavernous (by Brooklyn standards) basement of a Park Slope bar. We were there for her pre-publication party—an intimate affair attended by friends,...
View ArticleComics’ Relief
For Threadless.com’s new monthly Women & Comics interview series, Gina H. Prescott speaks to cartoonist/writer/historian Julia Wertz. Wertz discusses her autobiographical comics; her historical and...
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Conversations with Writers Braver than Me #18: Anne Roiphe
For some time I’ve wanted to interview author, journalist, and essayist Anne Roiphe for this column. I mean, who better to ask about the ramifications of writing about family than someone who has...
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Fresh Comics #7: Giving Up The Ghost
If you’ve never heard of Whit Taylor, then now is the perfect time to discover her. Ghost (2015) is her understated masterpiece, self-published just months ago. As I began reading the book, I thought I...
View ArticleFinding Truth Between Fact and Fiction
For Lit Hub, novelist Lily Tuck writes on “auto-fiction,” or autobiographical fiction, and why blurring the boundaries between strictly factual autobiography and fiction helps writers shape a firmer...
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