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The Rumpus Interview with Isaac Oliver
Isaac Oliver is the author of Intimacy Idiot, a debut collection of essays about dating, living, working, and being single in NYC. Interspersed throughout the book are recipes, wry poems, and subway...
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The Rumpus Interview with Mira Ptacin
Mira Ptacin is a Maine-based writer whose work has been featured in Guernica, New York Magazine, McSweeney’s, and more. She is also the founder, curator, host, and executive director of Freerange...
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The Rumpus Interview with Alida Nugent
Feminism has been a major part of the cultural conversation the past few months, especially with abortion rights, women’s healthcare, and rape culture making headlines. Alida Nugent’s second book, You...
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The Rumpus Interview with Kerry and Tyler Cohen
Kerry Cohen, author and psychotherapist, might best be known for her memoir Loose Girl (2008). She’s back with another memoir that details another intimate part of a woman’s life: female friendships....
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #83: Lauren Grodstein
After writing several books (A Friend of the Family, The Explanation for Everything) from a male point of view, Lauren Grodstein’s new novel, Our Short History, is an intimate glimpse into a woman’s...
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The Woman Behind the Curtain Pulling the Levers: Talking with Zinzi Clemmons
When I first read the synopsis of What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons, I knew I had to read it. We overlapped in Columbia University’s MFA program, and although she was Fiction and I was Nonfiction, I knew...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview #105: Miranda Pennington
When friends write books, it can be tricky. What if it’s no good? What if it’s downright awful? Thankfully, that hasn’t been the case with any of the books written by people I know, and Miranda...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #123: Erica Garza
Erica Garza and I first met online in a group for new moms. It was only later that we discovered we had gone to the same MFA program, albeit several years apart. We talked about what we were working...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #166: T Kira Madden
It would be easy to describe T Kira Madden’s debut memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls as a coming-of-age story, or as a memoir about trauma, or a memoir of growing up biracial or queer. The...
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