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The Rumpus Interview with Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, most recently, Gravesend and Landscapes on a Train, as well as a chapbook, Walk. Her work has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the New American...
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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 Rumpus Interview with Lee Clay Johnson
Nitro Mountain is a stunner of a book, one that remained with me long after I finished the last page. Johnson is a master of creating characters you’re immediately invested in, bringing them to life...
View ArticleVincent Toro: Challenging Whiteness and Refusing to Be Colonized
As a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, director, and educator, Vincent Toro has spent the last sixteen years teaching communities of color and writing about the conflicts, issues, and themes that directly...
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Digging for Characters: A Conversation with Sonya Chung
Sonya Chung is the author of the novels Long for This World and, most recently, The Loved Ones. She is a staff writer for the The Millions and the founding editor of Bloom. Chung is also a recipient of...
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Saying What Shouldn’t Be Said: A Conversation with Julie Buntin
Julie Buntin is from northern Michigan. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, O, The Oprah Magazine, Slate, Electric Literature, and One Teen Story, among other publications. She teaches...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #89: Isabel Greenberg
Isabel Greenberg is a London-based illustrator and writer. She studied illustration at the University of Brighton and has written for a variety of outlets including the Guardian, Nobrow Press, The...
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In a Quicksand of Language: A Conversation with Krys Lee
Krys Lee quit her formal activist work with North Korean refugees after receiving death threats. The threats came from a missionary with whom she was setting up hideouts in China. It turned out that he...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #102: Max Winter
The epigraph of Exes contains a quote by Richard Hell, one of the first punks to spike his hair and author of an autobiography called I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: “Everything should be kept. I...
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Drawing Close to the Void: Talking with Patty Yumi Cottrell
In Patty Yumi Cottrell’s first novel, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney’s, March 2017), the narrator investigates the suicide of her adoptive brother. Helen is thirty-two. Her brother was...
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A Curious Swarm or Energy: Talking with Rachel B. Glaser
HAIRDO, Rachel Glaser’s second book of poetry, contains thirty-four poems of the kind you’d want someone to read to you from the passenger’s seat on a road trip through the desert at night. They have a...
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Setting aside Time for Magic: Talking with Myriam Gurba
MEAN, a series of vignettes released by Coffee House Press in November 2017, is a memoir in which Myriam Gurba explores how it felt to grow up as a queer Chicana in Southern California. Gurba had a...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #127: Tara Skurtu
Tara Skurtu’s The Amoeba Game is her first full-length collection of poems. (She is also the author of the chapbook Skurtu, Romania.) The book begins with “Șoricel,” and the soul as a white mouse...
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Brain Soup and Making Things: A Conversation with Rita Bullwinkel
Rita Bullwinkel’s stories, which appear in her debut collection Belly Up (A Strange Object, May 2018), are that device an optometrist uses that shoots air into your eye. They’re potent and necessary,...
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What It Is to Be Human: Talking with Ottessa Moshfegh
In Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, a young woman takes a year off life to sleep under the influence of various narcotics after the deaths of her parents. “I knew in my...
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In the Spirit of Curiosity: Talking with Jamel Brinkley
Jamel Brinkley’s first book, A Lucky Man, contains nine stories focused on manhood, blackness, and family. The stories take place in Brooklyn and the South Bronx, and follow narrators of varying ages...
View ArticleThe Best American Short Stories 2018
Earlier this month, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt released The Best American Short Stories 2018, edited by Roxane Gay. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” Gay writes in her...
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Less-Than-Linear: A Conversation with Georgia Webber
Georgia Webber is in her twenties in Montreal, working in a café, helping people with their bikes at the local co-op, and hanging out with friends, when a mysterious throat injury makes it painful to...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #162: Emma Winsor Wood and C. Dylan Bassett
Except for his children’s books, Daniil Kharms, a Russian writer born in 1905—on the cusp of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and Stalin’s rise to power—didn’t see much of his work published during...
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