A Pointed Narrative Choice: Talking with Lydia Kiesling
Lydia Kiesling discusses her debut novel, THE GOLDEN STATE.
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Brian Hurley
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Allison Landa has been published in the Washington Post and Salon, among other venues, and has an essay forthcoming in the Guardian. Her memoir BEARDED LADY garnered a finalist position in SheWrites’ Passion Project contest, and she’s appeared several times on HuffPost Live. Landa held artist residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Playa Summer Lake, and The Julia and David White Artists’ Colony. She earned her MFA from St. Mary’s College of California and am represented by Miriam Altshuler of DeFiore & Co.
Help Small Presses Live to Fight Another Day
What if you could spend a little bit of money to make sure that your favorite books from independent publishers, like Coffee House Press, Dorothy, and Copper Canyon Press, turn up…
Oakland Book Festival 2016: Read, Debate, Celebrate!
Seven hours. Sixty events. Two hundred writers. That’s what you’ll find at the Oakland Book Festival this Sunday, May 22. Michael Eric Dyson will be there. So will Mary Roach, Victor…
Make America Read Again
What if you could spend a little bit of money to make sure that your favorite books from independent publishers—like Coffee House Press, Nouvella, Copper Canyon, Dorothy, and City Lights—turn up…
Video on Demand
How many times have we been told that digital technology will fundamentally alter the way we interact with text? There was hypertext fiction, which added hyperlinks so you could choose…
Oakland Is The New Everything
The lineup for the first annual Oakland Book Festival has just been announced. But you don’t have to wait until the festival—on May 31st—to put on a tweed jacket and…
Orwell, Vonnegut, Hitchens… Repino?
Good people of the Bay Area! Please join us at Green Apple Books on Thursday at 7:00pm for a reading by Robert Repino, author of Mort(e).
The Rumpus Interview with Robert Repino
Robert Repino talks about his debut novel, Mort(e), the publishing industry, science fiction and literary fiction, writing about religion, and how to write about complex chemical ant languages.
Strange Things Have Happened Here
People of the Bay Area! Come to 826 Valencia on Sunday night at 6 p.m. for a good old-fashioned Rumpus shindig, featuring writers from the USA, Russia, and Iran. Details…
Belle Cora and the San Francisco Powder Keg
A new historical novel shows that the Bay Area is no stranger to class warfare and vigilante justice.
Jonathon Keats Will Sell You Immortality in a Bar of Lead
Time is relative, and conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has found a way to sell it to you.