The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #228: Alden Jones
“You can make any topic enough in the telling.”
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Posts Tagged: Alden Jones
Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”
I’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.
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What to Read When You Want to Run Away from Your Life
Alden Jones shares a reading list to celebrate THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #177: Grace Talusan
“I was moved to write the unspeakable and unsayable.”
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Notable San Francisco: 10/17–10/23
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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The Rumpus Interview with Jerald Walker
Jerald Walker discusses his memoir, The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult, the story of his childhood in The Worldwide Church of God, and how the act of writing delivered him from bitterness.
...moreNotable NYC: 11/26–12/2
Saturday 11/26: Sarah Kay, Maeve Higgins, Phil Kaye, and Mark Doss read for refugees, as part of the Festival to Improve the World. The Wild Project, 4 p.m., $10. Monday 11/28: Jason Diamond launches Searching for John Hughes with a conversation with Danielle Henderson. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. David Rivard and Sarah Sarai join the […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell discusses his debut novel, What Belongs to You, crossing boundaries, language as defense, and the queer tradition of novel writing that blurs boundaries between fiction and essay and autobiography.
...moreLiberty, Justice
From Freedom to Purity, there’s no denying the man likes his themes. Over at Flavorwire, Jonathon Sturgeon reviews Jonathan Franzen’s forthcoming novel: Does Franzen truly believe his readers need to hear that the world is impure? For another take on Purity, check out Alden Jones’s Rumpus review of the novel here.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her latest book, The Small Backs of Children, war, art, the chaos of experience, and that photograph of the vulture stalking the dying child in the Sudan that won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Unaccompanied Minors by Alden Jones
Michael Carroll reviews UNACCOMPANIED MINORS by Alden Jones today in The Rumpus Books.
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