“Let Me Clear My Throat: Essays,” by Elena Passarello
Confession: I spend a lot of time hanging out in a dive piano bar in Oakland, and I can just imagine Elena Passarello, author of a quality new collection of…
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Rachel Howard
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Rachel Howard is the author of a novel, The Risk of Us, and a memoir, The Lost Night. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in ZYZZYVA, the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Nevada City, California, and teaches for Stanford Continuing Studies' certificate program in novel writing and at the San Francisco Writers Grotto.
The Queer Zoo
Shannon Cain’s short story collection, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, offers a refreshingly agnostic and all-embracing perspective on sexual desire and identity.
The Rumpus Interview with Frederick Reiken
Frederick Reiken’s third novel, Day for Night, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, alongside Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad.
In Zanesville
With the precise and true texture of ordinary experience, Jo Ann Beard’s new novel, In Zanesville, follows an unnamed narrator through her adolescence.