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Little Containers for Safekeeping: A Conversation with Rick Barot
In the summer of 2009, when I learned that Sarabande Books was going to publish my collection of lyric essays, I had the good fortune of living close enough to the press to make a visit to their...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #187: Evan James
In Evan James’s boisterous debut novel, Cheer Up, Mr. Widdecombe, the patriarch of the Widdecombe family, Frank, amuses himself by starting to write a book. Perturbed that his friend Channing has...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #98: Against Jazz
Nate Wooley, the reason for this piece, is a essential force in the contemporary music. Not only is Wooley a shockingly inventive and energetic trumpet player, who can apparently play in any form and...
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Celebrating Queer Portland: A Conversation with Claire Rudy Foster
When I was asked to interview Foster about their forthcoming short story collection, Shine of the Ever, I clapped my hands together and wiggled in my chair. We had not yet met, which is surprising...
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Tracing the Fractures: A Conversation with Kristen Millares Young
I don’t remember when or how Kristen Millares Young and I became friends, but I know it happened in Coast Salish territory, specifically Seattle, where she lives and I left. Subduction, her debut novel...
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I met Kristen Millares Young at AWP’s annual writing conference earlier this year. I sidled up, thrust my advance copy of Subduction in front of her to sign, and she said, “It’s about fucked up people...
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Wired for Wordplay: A Conversation with Kelli Russell Agodon
Kelli Russell Agodon is an award-winning poet, writer, educator, and editor. She received her MFA in creative writing from Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop, where she has recently...
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
Gabrielle Bates, I. S. Jones, and Erin Marie Lynch are three emerging poets who have transformed my writing life. Their work is also connected—by threads of hunger, loneliness, and reclamation. I am...
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Language as a Kind of Home: Talking with Anne Liu Kellor
How far do you need to travel to unlock the truth of your own heart? This is the central question in Anne Liu Kellor’s lyrical memoir Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging,...
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Into Thin Air (The Women on Flight 305)
When the man who called himself Dan Cooper handed Florence Schaffner his ransom note on Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle, her initial dismissal of him stemmed from the assumption that he was just...
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