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Ashley Perez

Ashley Perez lives, writes, and causes trouble in Los Angeles. She has a strong affinity for tattoos, otters, cat mystery books, and actual cats, but has mixed feelings about pants. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She runs the literary site Arts Collide and does work of all varieties for Women Who Submit, Entropy, Jaded Ibis Press, and Why There Are Words. You can find her on Twitter at @ArtsCollide.
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    The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #121: CLS Ferguson

    “Because that’s how memories are, right? Little flashes.”

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    The Rumpus Interview with Karolina Waclawiak

    Karolina Waclawiak discusses her latest book, The Invaders, the dark side of human nature, and what it really means to be a “beach read”.

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    Don’t Miss the LA Launch of Saint Mazie

    Los Angelinos, come out on Sunday to celebrate the launch of Jami Attenberg’s new novel, Saint Mazie. “Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she’s the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It’s the Jazz Age,…

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    California Prose Directory, Edited by J. Ryan Stradal

    Ashley Perez reviews California Prose Directory, edited by J. Ryan Stradal, today in Rumpus Books.

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    The Rumpus Interview with Jane Rosenberg LaForge

    Jane Rosenberg LaForge discusses her new book An Unsuitable Princess, being a New York writer from L.A., and how women get short shrift in fairy tales.

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    Spent Hits Los Angeles!

    Los Angeles! The release party for Rumpus columnist Antonia Crane‘s memoir Spent is happening this Friday, 5/30! This will be unlike any book release party you have ever seen. Not only will Antonia be there, recording artist MOBY will be reading! The event…

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    Midnight Breakfast Makes an Awesome Debut!

    Rumpus interviews editor Rebecca Rubenstein recently launched a kick ass online literary magazine, Midnight Breakfast. The folks over at Vela Magazine were quite impressed with MB and Rumpus contributor Kima Jones‘s CNF piece, “The Aqiqah”: “It’s always exciting to see a…

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    Roxane Gay Rocking It at Kirkus Review!

    We wrote previously about some of our editors getting amazing write-ups at Kirkus Review. Well, now essays editor Roxane Gay has received a starred Kirkus review for her new novel, An Untamed State. Check it out: “The closing chapters suggest that…

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    Need a new dating app?

    Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist has a very funny piece over at The New Yorker about the dating apps of 2014. This one sounds good: Unhinged Description: Disconnect from old connections. Designed for the dumped, the living alone, and the…

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    MariNaomi gets meta

    Rumpus cartoonist MariNaomi goes meta on us and reviews a comic book, Diane Obomsawin’s On Loving Women, in comic form over at The Los Angeles Review of Books.

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    On Loss and “Replacement”

    Emily Rapp’s name has appeared frequently on the Rumpus as her book The Still Point of the Turning World came out detailing her and her son Ronan’s experience with Tay-Sachs disease, his ultimate death, and her experiences as a mother.…

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    James Patterson, Literary Angel

    James Patterson is fulfilling his promise to give one million dollars to independent bookstores around the country. Every day, booksellers are out there saving our country’s literature,” Patterson said in a news release. “The work they do to support schools…