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Kathleen Alcott will be at San Francisco’s Alley Cat Books tonight, reading from her new debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (September’s Rumpus Book Club selection).
The event will also feature Rumpus editor Isaac Fitzgerald in discussion with Alcott.
Don’t miss it!
...moreKathleen Alcott will be at Alley Cat Books next week, reading from her new debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (September’s Rumpus Book Club selection).
Join her on Tuesday, October 16, 6:30 pm. Alley Cat Books (3036 24th St.)
Alcott has two other SF readings planned:
Thursday, October 11 (tonight!), 7 pm.
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While I’m at it, a little update news. Our current book is Kathleen Alcott’s The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets–Bookslut covered it here and said “It’s never simple, but if complicated is what produces a novel like this one, we should be grateful for the messy, the broken, and the quiet graces they birth, the camaraderie that can find us in even the most isolating of nightmares.”
We’re very excited to announce that our October book is Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins.
...moreRumpus Book Club members this month have been devouring Emma Straub’s Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and we’ll be chatting with Straub about her book this Wednesday night. Poetry Book Club members have been all over Mary Jo Bang’s new translation of Dante’s Inferno, and we’ll be chatting with her on Thursday.
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Congrats to Rumpus contributor Kathleen Alcott! Her novel will be released by Other Press in September 2012 and can be pre-ordered here.
“The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets centers around Ida and her neighbors, somnambulist brothers James and Jackson, and the unconventional family model they build.
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Yesterday, I read about Patricia O’Brien’s choice to submit her widely rejected sixth novel under the pseudonym Kate Alcott in the New York Times, the unprecedented success it resulted in, and felt the need to assert myself. My name is, has always been, Kathleen Alcott.
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They’re all means of transportation, if in various states of disrepair:
This week, Rumpus books reviewed Terry Castle’s book of essays, interviewed Elaine Showalter, wrote about Nabokov, and talked about grief and Hamlet. Come see what you missed.