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This Friday, January 25th at 7pm, Diesel, a Bookstore in Oakland will be celebrating the release of ZYZZYVA: The Winter Issue.
The night will feature readings by a variety of West Coast writers, including Rumpus contributor John W. Evans.
...moreWe’ve all been there. You go to Harvard, then to law school in Colorado. You own property in central Texas.
You get caught trafficking drugs, and the court makes you study creative writing in El Paso as part of your parole.
...moreGranta and ZYZZYVA are getting together in San Francisco for a “traditional British pub quiz with a California twist.”
There will be a show-down between teams comprised of audience members and contributors to both magazines, followed by music and dancing!
...moreAt ZYZZYVA, Rumpus columnist Antonia Crane interviews Cheryl Strayed about Wild, rebuilding, Sugar, and more.
“I bring a lot of the wisdom I gained on my hike into the “Dear Sugar” column. The most important one is that we always have a choice about which direction to go—forward or back—and that no matter what happens, we must always keep walking.”
...moreZYZZYVA interviewed Dagoberto Gilb, acclaimed author and the current executive director of Centro Victoria: Center for Mexican American Literature and Culture. Gilb touched on the Texan literary scene, Latino literature, and his newly published collection of stories, Before the End, After the Beginning (Rumpus reviewed here).
...moreA couple of weeks ago, I ranted against a Wall Street Journal article that proclaimed “The Slush Pile is Dead.” The slush pile, for those who are unfamiliar, is the name for the large amount of unsolicited writing that’s submitted for publication to magazines and web sites.
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