What to Read When You Have a Passion for Eclectic Stories
Joe Okonkwo shares a reading list to celebrate KISS THE SCARS ON THE BACK OF MY NECK.
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Posts Tagged: andrew sean greer
Notable Online: 3/14–3/20
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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What to Read When You Need to Get to Spring
Emily Franklin shares a reading list to celebrate TELL ME HOW YOU GOT HERE.
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Notable Online: 6/28–7/4
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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What to Read When You Can’t Invite Your Queer Family Over for Dinner
Miah Jeffra shares a reading list to celebrate THE FABULOUS EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC!.
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Notable San Francisco: 3/11–3/17
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 11/6–11/12
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 9/18–9/24
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 3/20–3/26
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 2/13–2/19
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 6/18–6/24
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable NYC: 6/2–6/8
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 5/23–5/29
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreNotable Portland: 7/27–8/2
Thursday 7/27: Join Tavern Books for a reading featuring Wrolstad Series poets Megan Levad and Elsbeth Pancrazi. Literary Arts, 7 p.m., free. Manuel Arturo Abreu and Rob Gray read from their select works. Powell’s City of Books, 7 p.m., free.
...moreNotable San Francisco: 7/26–8/1
Wednesday 7/26: Samantha Hunt discusses her new story collection, The Dark Dark, with Clary Sankey. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park. Andrew Sean Greer is launching his new novel, Less. Free, 7:30 p.m., Booksmith.
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction
On Tuesday, Margaret Atwood released Stone Mattress, a collection of “wonderfully weird short stories.” Stone Mattress is Atwood’s eighth collection of stories, not to mention her 14 novels and other formidable volumes of poetry, children’s literature, and nonfiction. Reviewers across the boards are heralding this most recent work as “wise, sharp,” and “rich.” Let’s look at […]
...more“Of course we had no money. Of course we had no love.”
Andrew Sean Greer remembers the night Clinton was elected, living in New York at the end of the Reagan and Bush Republican era, being young and wanting to be a part in gay history in the 90’s. This piece is an evocative glimpse into a past moment, part of Keep the Lights On, “a chronicle […]
...moreNotable San Francisco, This Week: 3/7-3/13
This week in San Francisco, Quiet Lightning moves to North Beach, Janine Brito and Emily Heller get hilarious at the Punchline, Andrew Sean Greer’s The Islanders takes to the stage, and Rumpus Managing Editor, Isaac Fitzgerald, gets his literary Casanova on at Fivepoints Arthouse’s Tales of Tail. Monday 3/7: Catch Quiet Lightning in North Beach! […]
...moreThe Secret History
J. Robert Lennon’s latest novel explores the darkness of the land and the soul.
...moreJohn Updike: Writers Reflect
The Rumpus asked writers to share their thoughts on the work and legacy of John Updike, who died this week at the age of 76.
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