Lingering on Darkness: Sleepovers by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Bestiality. Bone squishing into brain. A child choked with extension cords. When Ashleigh Bryant Phillips lets loose, she can shock. Her debut, the short story collection Sleepovers, is lush with...
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A Little Bit Irreverent, a Little Bit Truthful: Talking with Megan Cummins
In her newly released debut collection of short stories, If the Body Allows It, Megan Cummins examines themes that overlap with her own personal history—an autoimmune disease, the death of a father,...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Beth Alvarado
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Beth Alvarado about her new linked story collection, Jillian in the Borderlands (Black Lawrence Press, October 2020), how teaching influences her creative work, the...
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Why We Believe What We Believe: A Conversation with Dantiel W. Moniz
Dantiel W. Moniz’s debut story collection, Milk Blood Heat, just published this week from Grove Atlantic, but you might’ve already encountered her work in the Paris Review, Tin House, One Story,...
View ArticleHell Is a Young Man: Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent
At the college I attended, fraternities weren’t formally recognized by the administration. Without frat houses—the ramshackle, portico-embellished kind Animal House made famous—the boys had to display...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod
I was delighted to talk with Shannon McLeod over Zoom about her debut novella, Whimsy (Long Day Press, March 2021), which follows the eponymous narrator at the beginning of a new romance with a...
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Place, Patois, and a Pinch of Politics: A Conversation with Celeste Mohammed
In her writing, Celeste Mohammed aims to dispel myths about island life and island people, and to highlight points of intersection between Caribbean and North American interests. Her debut...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Wendy J. Fox
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Wendy J. Fox about her new story collection, What If We Were Somewhere Else (Santa Fe Writers Project, November 2021), how she approached writing a book of linked...
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The Moment Moves On: A Conversation with Wendy J. Fox
Wendy J. Fox is the author of four books, including her latest book of linked short stories, What If We Were Somewhere Else. Her novel If the Ice Had Held and her debut collection, The Seven Stages of...
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A Fundamental Sense of Mystery: Talking with Cara Blue Adams
Cara Blue Adams’s debut linked short story collection You Never Get It Back follows Kate Bishop as she moves from a bohemian childhood in rural Vermont to an early adulthood spanning several...
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