The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden
Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best...
View ArticleThe Queer Valentine of the Century: Jenny Johnson’s In Full Velvet
A sticker on the back of my advanced review copy of Jenny Johnson’s In Full Velvet notes, “On sale February 14, 2017 from Sarabande Books.” And here it is, February 14, 2017, and I am reading this book...
View ArticleRumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Moscow at Midnight
Max glanced around the bright hall. The six orderly queues. The new booths, shiny and cheap. Like witness stands. He groaned. He could be anywhere: Frankfurt, Bangkok. Not at home, he thought....
View ArticleFiguring It Out: A Conversation with Rosellen Brown
Rosellen Brown published her first book, Some Deaths in the Delta and Other Poems, in 1970. She’s since published twelve more: two other collections of poetry, one of short stories, one of miscellany,...
View ArticleOn Beloveds, Birds, and the Expansiveness of Space: Talking with Paige Lewis
When I first met Paige Lewis, they gave me a Pokémon card. Now forever armed with Machop, I keep him in my journal in case my writing muscles aren’t being properly flexed. Lewis running around with...
View ArticleResistance Against Erasure: Talking with Marianne Chan
I met Marianne Chan at the 2020 AWP conference in San Antonio. She was sitting at the Sarabande booth, waiting with a pen in her hand, ready to sell and sign her stack of newly released books. Her calm...
View ArticleA Quintessential Quarantine Read: Paige Lewis’s Space Struck
Hello, Friends. How are you? Please say you’re sheltering well—perhaps with some humans and animals you love? And with plenty of books, I hope—for guidance, solace, both? This is the first review I’ve...
View ArticleAwake to the World: Talking with Tyler Barton
Tyler Barton’s short story collection Eternal Night at the Nature Museum, just released from Sarabande Books, crackles with unbridled energy as characters seek home in unlikely places: a demolition...
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