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Laura Goode

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Laura Goode is a novelist, essayist, poet, and screenwriter living in San Francisco. Her first novel for young adults, SISTER MISCHIEF, was released by Candlewick Press in 2011, and called a “Best Book You Haven’t Read of 2011” by Vanity Fair online, as well as “a provocative, authentic coming-of-age story…full of big ideas, big heart, and big poetry” by Booklist in its starred review, and a 2012 Best of the Bay pick by the SF Bay Guardian. She is the producer of the feature film FARAH GOES BANG, which she wrote with Meera Menon. Her poems and essays have appeared in New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, The Rumpus, The Faster Times, Boston Review, Racialicious, Feministing, The New Inquiry, IndieWire, Denver Quarterly, Dossier, Fawlt, and other publications, and she is represented by Ted Malawer of Upstart Crow Literary. Laura was raised outside Minneapolis, where she was a spelling bee kid, and received her BA and MFA from Columbia University. Follow her on Twitter @lauragoode and visit her at www.lauragoode.com.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sandra Bernhard

  • Laura Goode
  • May 14, 2013
In an exclusive interview, The Rumpus sits down with the very funny, very feminist Sandra Bernhard to talk about comedy, mothers, life on the road, and, of course, San Francisco, where she'll be performing this week.
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Stay Gold

  • Laura Goode
  • January 17, 2013
I wanted to be the author of my own destiny, of my own chaos: I wanted to self-activate: I did not want to live my life half-asleep.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Modotti” by Adrienne Rich

  • Laura Goode
  • April 2, 2012
I didn’t have time to be devastated on the day Adrienne Rich died, but I still couldn’t keep back the tears. Like so many others, Rich was The One to…
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Albums of Our Lives: Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black

  • Laura Goode
  • July 25, 2011
Amy Winehouse was my contemporary—exactly my age, 27, when she was found dead at her London home on July 23.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “To My Twenties” by Kenneth Koch

  • Laura Goode
  • May 26, 2011
“Only this do you know for sure: time is an ellipsis until it is not.”
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