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Rumpus Book ClubBid in This Lit Auction; Help a Cancer Patient
Jennifer Derilo is like so many in America in that she doesn’t have health insurance. What sets her apart is that she’s in her early thirties yet is battling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Many of her friends and former teachers are writers and they’ve teamed up to help her out, auctioning off goods and services to directly contribute to her medical bills.
Items include:
- A choice of a book proposal, teaching advice for 1 semester, OR 2 letters of inquiry from Elmaz Abinader
- An incredible and unique and handcrafted Personalized Artist Book by, and from, Justin Chin
- A nonfiction manuscript critique of up to 25 pages from Lac Su
- A fiction manuscript critique of up to 25 pages from Randa Jarrar
- A critique of a Statement of Purpose for graduate school OR a critique of an academic paper from Professor Kirsten T. Saxton
- Signed copies of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
- A fiction or nonfiction manuscript critique of up to 25 pages from Yiyun Li
- Signed, unbound galleys of Leaving Yesler by Peter Bacho
- Signed copy of the book The Unmaking of Americans: Seven Lives and the chapbook Stories We Tell Ourselves by Mel Freilicher
- Fiction or Nonfiction manuscript reading of up to 30 pages by Mel Freilicher
- 12 signed books and chapbooks by Michael Davidson
- Signed copies of Madeleine is Sleeping and Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
- A fiction manuscript critique of up to 25 pages from Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
These are all awesome items, and the proceeds go to such a good cause. Please consider bidding. Right now most of these items are only ten dollars!
September 8th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Thank you SO much for helping us get the word out! A few more auctions are forthcoming, thanks to some last minute donations of services and items. They will be added tomorrow.
September 9th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Additional auction items have been posted today. They include chances at immortality (several writers, including Mat Johnson, Beth Lisick, and Chris Abani, will each name a character after the winning bidder/donor in their next book and Thea Hillman will write the winning bidder into an erotica piece), and more manuscript critiques (Dean Rader, Michelle Richmond, Nina LaCour, and Alexander Chee), a reading-for-hire by Tara Hardy, and more signed books…and more! Please check the auction out at:
http://czilka.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/literary-auction/