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Brian Hurley

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Brian Hurley is the Publisher at Fiction Advocate and an executive editor at a book publishing start-up in the Bay Area. He used to be the Books Editor at The Rumpus and the linguistics editor at Oxford University Press. His writing has appeared in The Millions, Full Stop, and Electric Literature.
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A Pointed Narrative Choice: Talking with Lydia Kiesling

  • Brian Hurley
  • August 22, 2018
Lydia Kiesling discusses her debut novel, THE GOLDEN STATE.
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Help Small Presses Live to Fight Another Day

  • Brian Hurley
  • May 1, 2017
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…
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Oakland Book Festival 2016: Read, Debate, Celebrate!

  • Brian Hurley
  • May 19, 2016
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…
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Make America Read Again

  • Brian Hurley
  • April 19, 2016
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…
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Video on Demand

  • Brian Hurley
  • December 8, 2015
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…
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Brit Wits

  • Brian Hurley
  • July 28, 2015
The sun never sets on the literature of the British Empire, does it? Last year the estate of P. G. Wodehouse gave its blessing to Jeeves and the Wedding Bells,…
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Oakland Is The New Everything

  • Brian Hurley
  • April 25, 2015
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…
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Orwell, Vonnegut, Hitchens… Repino?

  • Brian Hurley
  • January 28, 2015
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).
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The Rumpus Interview with Robert Repino

  • Brian Hurley
  • January 28, 2015
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.
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Strange Things Have Happened Here

  • Brian Hurley
  • January 3, 2015
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…
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Belle Cora and the San Francisco Powder Keg

  • Brian Hurley
  • February 4, 2014
A new historical novel shows that the Bay Area is no stranger to class warfare and vigilante justice.
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Jonathon Keats Will Sell You Immortality in a Bar of Lead

  • Brian Hurley
  • October 5, 2013
Time is relative, and conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has found a way to sell it to you.
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