The Rumpus Interview with Fred D’Aguiar
Tragic subjects dog Fred D’Aguiar’s creative impulses. His first novel, The Longest Memory, about slavery on a Virginia plantation, won the Whitbread First Novel Award. Another novel, Feeding The...
View ArticleThe Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #21: Not Yesterday’s Demonstrations
1972: War was waging in Vietnam and kids were coming home in boxes. Hippes and yippies went clean for Gene McCarthy, but George McGovern won the democratic nomination. Tricky Dick Nixon was the one for...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Book Club Chat with Danzy Senna
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Danzy Senna about her latest novel, New People (Riverhead Books, August 2017), inhabiting her characters without judging them, playing with the reality and surreality of...
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