Rebecca Solnit on Writing What Matters
In The Believer, Rebecca Solnit gives some advice I hope to someday learn to follow completely:“Apolitical is a political position, yes, and a dreary one. The choice by a lot of young writers to hide...
View ArticlePolitical Fiction, Without a Capital P
Political fiction can come across as heavy-handed, but avoiding all politics in writing may overlook the fact that people lead political lives. Over at the Atlantic, author Molly Antopol talks about...
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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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The Rumpus Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
When I first learned that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and I shared the same hometown of San Jose, California, and that we both grew up there in the 1970s and ‘80s, I knew I had to...
View ArticleThe Violence of Forgetting: The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball
In Book VI of the Aeneid, Anchises shows his son the famous river of the underworld, the “care-less drafts of long forgetfulness” that make up the river Lethe. Shades gather on either side of its banks...
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Hybrid by Nature: A Conversation with Tara Campbell
If you google Tara Campbell, you’ll find page after page of publications. She writes in all genres, exploring form and voice like no other contemporary author, essayist, or poet. She has published a...
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