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The Rumpus Interview with J.D. Vance
“I was one of those kids with a grim future,” writes J.D. Vance in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. In his childhood in an impoverished, Appalachian community,...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Julie Buntin
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Julie Buntin about her debut novel, Marlena, the writers and books that influenced it, tackling addiction with compassion, and the magic of teenage girls. This is an...
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Analyzing the Why: A Conversation with Jonathan Reiss
The first time I met Jonathan Reiss was at a show on the Lower East Side where he read from his novel Getting Off. I was blown away not only by his writing but also by his performance. The scene he...
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Follow Your Nose: A Conversation with Daniel Gumbiner
Daniel Gumbiner’s debut novel, The Boatbuilder, tells the story of Eli “Berg” Koenigsberg, a twenty-eight year-old “digital refugee” who has recently left behind a job at a San Francisco tech company...
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erin Khar
I eagerly ripped Erin Khar’s debut memoir, Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies that Nearly Killed Me, from the envelope at the mailbox and read as I walked home, so absorbed that I narrowly avoided...
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Voices on Addiction: Primary Source
Anything we write now is a primary source. At the beginning of our COVID-19 isolation, my four teenagers had a dinner discussion about keeping journals. Their teachers were imploring them to keep...
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