The Rumpus Interview with Molly Antopol
Imagine yourself in a foreign country—and not even the city where you’re living in that country, but a different one fifty miles away, where a friend has invited you to a party. Now imagine that the...
View ArticleThe Unamericans by Molly Antopol
What if the official record were neither the conquerors’ version of the past nor the victims’, but a more scrabbled terrain in which its heroes were unwitting bystanders, history’s hapless schlemiels?...
View ArticlePolitical Fiction, Without a Capital P
Political fiction can come across as heavy-handed, but avoiding all politics in writing may overlook the fact that people lead political lives. Over at the Atlantic, author Molly Antopol talks about...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Chanan Tigay
It takes a writer with a background like Chanan Tigay’s—son of a noted Bible scholar, professor of nonfiction, with a distinguished career in journalism and an MFA in fiction for good measure—to...
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