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Guildtalk #3: Lori Ostlund
Welcome to Guildtalk. For this exclusive series, the Rumpus has partnered with the Authors Guild to bring attention to exciting new voices in American literature. In each installment, an established...
View ArticleRus Like Everyone Else by Bette Adriaanse
Bette Adriaanse’s debut novel from Unnamed Press, Rus Like Everyone Else, establishes the author and artist as a creative force. Rus Like Everyone Else is thoughtful, intricately conceived, and an...
View Article(Attractive) Debut Novelists Earn Millions
Emma Cline received $2m advance for The Girls, due out in June, which puts her near the top of a growing list of first-time writers with advances in the millions. Last year, City on Fire earned Garth...
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The Rumpus Interview with Asali Solomon
In the moments we begin to read a story for the very first time, it is utterly impossible to know where an author’s influences and aspirations lie. The same may be said of humans—that only when we are...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Martin Seay
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Martin Seay about his debut novel The Mirror Thief, the Great Work of alchemy, Venice, researching optical prosthetics, and keeping plot lines straight in a 600-page...
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The Rumpus Interview with Lynn Steger Strong
I first met Lynn Steger Strong last fall in the cavernous (by Brooklyn standards) basement of a Park Slope bar. We were there for her pre-publication party—an intimate affair attended by friends,...
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The Rumpus Interview with Shawn Vestal
Shawn Vestal is a journalist and a columnist for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. He made a splash in 2014 when his collection of short stories Godforsaken, Idaho received the PEN/Robert W....
View ArticleThe Long and Winding Road
The stories are woven together with my life and my life moved across the globe as I wrote, so the stories too took that long journey. My map of becoming a writer goes all the way around the world.At...
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The Rumpus Interview with Annie DeWitt
Few writers can assemble a sentence with the elegance of Annie DeWitt, whose work I first fell for in the pages of NOON a couple of years ago. To be more accurate, my admiration arrived in the ear, as...
View ArticleA Novel Debut
Over at the New York Times Book Review, Leslie Jamison and Ayana Mathis write about the excitement surrounding debut novelists’ work. “It’s like hearing an overture at the beginning of a symphony, the...
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