Amy Tan
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What to Read When You’re Writing Speculative Memoir
Laraine Herring shares a reading list to celebrate A CONSTELLATION OF GHOSTS.
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Scratching Until You Find the Itch: A Conversation with Yi Shun Lai
Yi Shun Lai discusses her new memoir, PIN UPS.
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What to Read When You Grew Up Watching Dawson’s Creek
Erin Hensley and Julia Callahan share a reading list to celebrate I REMEMBER EVERYTHING.
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Writing What Bothers: A Conversation with Frances Cha
Frances Cha discusses her debut novel, IF I HAD YOUR FACE.
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Notable Philadelphia: 10/17–10/23
Literary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
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Notable Twin Cities: 10/15–10/21
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Tamiko Nimura
Tamiko Nimura talks about the influence of history, memory, and silence on her work; creating a private MFA for herself; and writing a generational memoir.
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Family Is the Deepest Scar: Minae Mizumura’s Inheritance from Mother
With each word, I found myself thinking of my own grandmother’s journey, escaping war to America with no money, no education, and six children, the pain of this experience inevitably hardening the whole family.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kathleen Spivack
Poet Kathleen Spivack discusses releasing her debut novel Unspeakable Things at age seventy-seven.
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The Rumpus Interview with Mary Karr
Mary Karr talks about her new book The Art of Memoir, the perception of memoir from a “trashy” form, the virtues of poetry, and the complexity of truth-telling.
