The Rumpus Interview with D.A. Powell
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View ArticleDo Not Deny Me
The stories in Do Not Deny Me, Jean Thompson’s new collection, are concerned with main characters whose lives are scraped bare, who live in a world flattened by boredom and limitation. These characters...
View ArticleCalifornia Dreaming
Eric Puchner’s first novel exposes the faultlines and frustrations beneath the shining American dream.A boom economy may be only a sometime reality, but it’s a perennial fixture of the American...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with K. M. Soehnlein
“The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character’s self-awareness—or lack of self-awareness.”K.M....
View ArticleClaire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
In an interview Edwidge Danticat once said that as soon as she began to write, “my silence was destroyed completely. Indefinitely.” In her remarkable works of fiction and nonfiction, Danticat has...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Daniel Alarcón
The London Times called Daniel Alarcón’s first book, the story collection War by Candlelight, a “luminous beginning,” and the writer Edward P. Jones noted that “Daniel Alarcón’s stories are one of the...
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