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The Rumpus Long Interview with Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers has a new nonfiction book, Zeitoun, coming out in a few weeks, fast on the heels of Away We Go, a movie he co-wrote with his wife, Vendela Vida, and directed by Sam Mendes. Dave talks to...
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The Rumpus Interview with Forrest Gander
“As a writer, I’m interested in trying to get to the complexity of experience. For me, that has led—in poetry—to counterpoint, polyrhythms, and clausal layering.”Born in Barstow, California in 1956,...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Poet Laureate Elizabeth Alexander about her poetry collection, Crave Radiance.This is an edited transcript of the poetry book club discussion with Elizabeth...
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The Rumpus Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful...
View ArticleToday’s Fake Interview
We just published an interview with artist, Edie Fake, who was semi-nomadic but is currently Chicago-based.He talks about touring the country on a bus, illustrating thought-projecting nose cones and...
View ArticleWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, the Picasso Blues.This weekend’s reviews included a revealing summary of Bonnie Zobell’s book, What Happened Here, by Anna March, and Jac Jemc’s collection, A Different Bed Every Time. In the...
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The Rumpus interview with Stuart Dybek
Celebrated as one of the masters of contemporary American fiction, Stuart Dybek continues to expand narrative possibilities through stories rendered with exquisite lyricism and a vivid compression of...
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The Rumpus Interview With Alejandro Zambra
Chilean author Alejandro Zambra spoke with Ann van Buren about his newest book, Multiple Choice (Penguin, July 2016), just before its release. It is Zambra’s eighth book, and the fifth one to be...
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Sound & Vision #25: Brendan Toller
Welcome back to Sound & Vision, the Rumpus profile series that spotlights the creative talents of those working behind the scenes in the music industry. Up this month is my discussion with the...
View ArticlePoetry, Performance and the Little Black Dress: An Interview with Michael Chang
I met Michael Chang through an online workshop in hybrid forms taught by Hanif Abdurraqib. It was 2020, and though I didn’t know Chang’s work yet, I was thrilled to be introduced to poems with titles...
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Form as a Metaphor for Fatness: A Conversation with Stephanie Rogers
Fat Girl Forms, the latest book of poetry by Stephanie Rogers, explores an intersection rarely seen in literary circles: the experience of fatness portrayed through the lens of poetry. I discovered...
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Make something inexplicable happen: An Interview with Morgan Talty
Morgan Talty’s debut, Night of the Living Rez, is a linked short story collection that follows David as he grows up on the Penobscot Reservation in Maine. The collection opens with “Burn,” in which...
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A General Truth Through a Particular Lie: An Interview with the Creators of...
Not all influential writers were good people. In fact, many of the twentieth-century authors I grew up reading were horrible people, who committed acts of violence against their family members,...
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If You’re Bengali, Food is the Center of Everything: An Interview with...
As an Indian American writer and reader, I am wary of books with saris and cups of chai on their covers as is the case for Madhushree Ghosh’s debut collection of essays Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of...
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Knowledge alters things forever: A conversation with Anuradha Roy
Acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy recently released her fifth novel, The Earthspinner (HarperCollins, 2022), a layered story about a terracotta horse, the artist who creates him, and the young woman...
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Sustaining our Creative Practice: An Interview with May-lee Chai
I met May-lee Chai while attending San Francisco State University for my MFA. She is the type of professor one feels incredibly lucky to encounter. As a professor, and as a writer, she is both generous...
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Finding Enchantment in the Ordinary: A Conversation with Meng Jin
The front jacket flap of Meng Jin’s second book, short story collection Self-Portrait with Ghost, bears the line, “So she has summoned me in, to read her life, so what is boring and endless might...
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Can we be too alive together? A conversation with Chris Martin on poetry,...
As a poet and scholar exploring disability poetics in my own work and life, I am enlivened by unconventional writing and teaching that weave concerns of disability justice with expansively imaginative...
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Embodied Voices: A Conversation with Sonya Huber
When it comes to disability education and advocacy, Sonya Huber is a leading voice. The author of eight books, Huber’s creative nonfiction explores the American pursuit of health insurance, living with...
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Taking to Heart Unbearable Reality: The Rumpus Interview with Jorie Graham
[To] The Last [Be] Human by Jorie Graham is the culmination of a tetralogy that follows the poet’s awakening in the early ‘00s to the devastation facing humanity and the planet. This collection of...
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