I’m excited to share my latest interview in The Rumpus. It’s my tenth interview for them!

I spoke with Elaine Castillo about her novel Moderation. 

From the introduction to the interview:

Moderation is a novel about tech and about love, but it is also a novel about what it means to be part of the Filipino-American community, and about how debt and labor shape American life.

I talked with Castillo over email about content moderation, about repressed, eldest sibling Earth sign fiction, and about what it means to take on the topics of labor and personal trauma in American life.

You can read our discussion here. 

I haven’t posted in awhile, but I am excited to share my new interview in The Rumpus. I spoke with Lidia Yuknavitch about her new memoir Reading the Waves.

From the introduction to the interview:

Reading the Waves (Riverhead Books, 2025) takes us from the forests of Oregon to the basements and pools of Texas and back again as she tells stories from her life: about the death of her ex-husband, about her life as a teenager and her relationship with her mother, and about her family life with her husband and son. Through her eyes, we watch with awe as a white hummingbird hovers in the air and we stand on the top of a construction crane, looking down at the ground with fear and exhilaration in equal measure. Each part of Reading the Waves is an adventure while at the same time a meditation on love, death, and the act of artistic creation.

You can find our discussion here!

I am delighted to share my interview with Marie Mutsuki Mockett. I spoke with her over the phone about her new novel The Tree Doctor, and our talk is up today at The Rumpus.

Angie Kim’s debut novel Miracle Creek will be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux on April 16th, and tackles contemporary issues such as disability, immigration, and family with an empathetic and compelling touch. I interviewed Kim for The Rumpus, and now you can read our discussion here.

I was lucky enough to snag an interview with Rebecca Makkai about her forthcoming novel, The Great Believers, which is due out June 19th. This is my first appearance in The Rumpus, and I’m incredibly grateful to Makkai for talking with me and to editors Ian MacAllen and Elon Green for placing the piece.

From the introduction: “Rebecca Makkai’s third novel, The Great Believers, travels between 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, following a group of friends impacted by the AIDS crisis. The main characters, Yale and Fiona, confront the disease and its impact on their friends and family, as they struggle to make the best of their own lives. With its themes of reconciliation and redemption, and its focus on subjects such as activism and access to healthcare, the book feels spookily relevant in the age of Trump…”

You can read the full interview here.