Notable Online: 10/11–10/17
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Alia Volz
Larger Than Life: Talking with Alia Volz
Alia Volz discusses her debut memoir, HOME BAKED.
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Memoir Monday Online: Khakpour, Long, Shah, Volz
Watch May’s online Memoir Monday reading!
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Notable Online: 5/17–5/23
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreNotable San Francisco: 10/25–10/31
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
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At Nowhere, Alia Volz takes a long-shot journey to Cuba to tie up loose ends. For Guernica, Katherina Grace Thomas writes about that time Nina Simone loved and left paradise. Here at The Rumpus, Alaina Leary considers the painful work of accounting for family possessions under dire circumstances.
...moreNotable San Francisco: 2/8–2/14
Wednesday 2/8: Poet Brandon Brown reads. Free, 7:30 p.m., Moe’s Books. Thursday 2/9: Adam Hochschild, National Book Award Finalist. Free, 5 p.m., Morrison Libray at UC Berkeley.
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First, for Day 23 of National Poetry Month, Valerie Wetlaufer’s “Method” uses third person to describe a victim of mysterious migraines, and for Day 24, Tyehimba Jess calls for the curtain to rise “to show the face that is known” in “Sissieretta Jones, Carnegie Hall, 1902: O patria mia.“ Then, in the Saturday Essay, Anca Szilágyi highlights the […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Motel Ecstasy
Alia Volz’s artist, expat mom needed to leave Mexico and go back to the United States for a heavy-duty chemo treatment, which meant it was time for a mother-daugther road trip.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Processing Children
The courtroom smells of talcum powder. On this afternoon’s docket, we have thirty-four children. Thirty-four out of 35,000 or 57,000 or 90,000 kids who have crossed our borders without permission since last October, depending on which source you trust to make sense of what doesn’t.
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