Capturing the Movement of Consciousness
For Electric Literature, Laura Preston interviews Garth Greenwell about his recent debut novel What Belongs to You. The two discuss what led Greenwell to transition from writing poetry to fiction, his...
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The Rumpus Interview with Garth Greenwell
The week I conducted this interview with Garth Greenwell, author of the breathtaking novel What Belongs to You, my five-year-old son first learned the term “potential energy.” My son and I spent that...
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Round Trip
My boyfriend and I were on Knez Alexandar, the main shopping drag in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, waiting for the tattooed palachinki vendor to finish his Rick James imitation and give me my crepe. He was a smug...
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We Who Leave
My grandmother died this past January, and I did not attend her funeral.I live in Boston now and she lived in Hisarya, Bulgaria, and I could not afford the plane ticket. This is the equation every...
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The Rumpus Interview with Miroslav Penkov
Miroslav Penkov’s debut novel Stork Mountain is a multi-layered, multi-faceted story about family secrets, young love, superstition, politics and religion set in a remote mountain region dripping with...
View ArticleRecollections of Home
The woman looked at me when she finished reading, smiling, expecting me to compliment her English. But I couldn’t speak, moved beyond words by a sense of homecoming in this place so far from home.Over...
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The Rumpus Interview With Danielle Trussoni
Not long after the success of her first novel, Danielle Trussoni’s life became a fairy tale, when she and her writer husband Nikolai moved their family to a magical 13th century fortress in the...
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The Evolution of Present-Day Greece: Talking with Nanos Valaoritis
Ioannos (Nanos) Valaoritis has been widely published as a poet, novelist, and playwright. The grandson of Aristotle Valaoritis, a famous nineteenth-century poet, Valaoritis escaped German-occupied...
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The Right Wrong Note: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell’s new book, Cleanness, is both a formal and thematic expansion of the world of his first novel, What Belongs to You, which was hailed an “instant classic” by the New York Times Book...
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Between Lightness and Shadow: A Conversation with Kapka Kassabova
Kapka Kassabova is a writer of narrative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Her work explores the alchemy between places and people, geopolitical “peripheries,” nexus of cultural confluence and conflict,...
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