The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #204: Paulina Flores
Finding Paulina Flores’s debut collection Humiliation in my mailbox was like coming across a little bit of magic in the middle of a very typical day. The stories remain with you long after shutting the...
View ArticleCircuitous Journeys: Talking with Sejal Shah
Sejal Shah’s debut essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance, forthcoming on June 1 from University of Georgia Press, is one of the most-anticipated memoirs of 2020. Growing up in Rochester, New York,...
View ArticleC-Beams Glittering in the Dark: A Conversation with Cooper Lee Bombardier
“I don’t want to disappear,” Cooper Lee Bombardier tells an imagined interlocutor at the end of an early essay in Pass With Care: Memoirs, his luminous first book, which collects previously published...
View ArticleReality Is Absurd: Talking with Ted O’Connell
Ted O’Connell’s first book, K: A Novel, follows Francis Kauffman, an English teacher in China who gets thrown in prison after being accused of inciting rebellious activity among some of his students....
View ArticleThe Rumpus Book Club Chat with Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn about her debut essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs (Burrow Press, June 2020), form vs. content, how teaching has changed her writing, and...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lauren J. Sharkey
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Lauren J. Sharkey about her debut novel, Inconvenient Daughter (Kaylie Jones Books, June 2020), how the book began as a memoir but turned into fiction, life in suburban...
View ArticleThe Complex Disability Representation We Need: Rebekah Taussig’s Sitting Pretty
I often go into reading work by fellow disabled writers with hesitancy and high expectations, probably in part because of how few disability narratives I had access to growing up, and thus how much is...
View ArticleFinding Firm Ground: A Conversation with Nadia Owusu
Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu’s debut memoir, Aftershocks, is described as “a poetic genre-bending work that combines literary memoir and cultural history to grapple with the fault lines of...
View ArticleNowhere to Go but Deeper into the Self: Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts
Like many other sort-of-young, Twitter-active women, my first reaction to Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts was a mingled sense of horror and relief. In the abrasive exposition—as the narrator searches...
View ArticleSacred and Profane and Infinitely Compassionate: Remembering Anthony Veasna So
Almost every outlet has called Anthony Veasna So some variation of a star-on-the-rise. However, on the rise implies a trajectory when the truth is, he was already there. Everyone just had to catch up....
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