The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Sampsell
Relationships are private things. They comprise moments shared between two people—conversations, physical interactions, and unspoken communication that exist on a plane somewhere in the middle. At...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Olivia Laing
Writers have a fraught relationship with alcohol. We are, in ways, expected to drink to get through the stress of putting pen to page, and when we don’t, we’re looked at as exceptions to the rule. (I...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Chang-rae Lee
I first met Chang-rae Lee at a party to celebrate the release of On Such a Full Sea, a few months before the novel dropped. On a hotel rooftop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with a view overlooking...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Julia Fierro
“I am being punished for writing a book about children.”This is what Julia Fierro tells me as we’re sitting at dinner next to a group of parents and their children, who’re banging toys against the...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Miriam Toews
All My Puny Sorrows, or “AMPS,” as Miriam Toews calls it when we speak via Skype, is a book that exists in an insular world—a good deal of its action takes place inside the walls of a hospital, and...
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