AWP 2016 Offsite Event: PICK YOUR POISON
The Rumpus and Rare Bird are proud to present PICK YOUR POISON, an AWP 2016 offsite event!
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Posts Tagged: Anna March
Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #15: Beautiful Renderings of Complex Locales
In both fiction and non-fiction, I love a book that helps us unravel ourselves by illuminating place, a book that transports me from here to there. These six books will take you far… and deliver you.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #14: Memoirs about Hard Times and Beauty
I love memoirs about difficult times that don’t sugarcoat it, that don’t pretty it up. I love a memoir that finds the beauty—there is such an unbelievable amount of beauty in this world—without handing out a Hollywood ending, without dipping the pain in glitter, without pretending we all get held all night, every night by […]
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape
Anna March’s Reading Mixtape will return after the holidays. She looks forward to offering you a bevy of reading recommendations in 2016, and wishes you all a very happy and restful holiday season!
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape
Anna March’s Reading Mixtape will return after the holidays. She looks forward to offering you a bevy of reading recommendations in 2016, and wishes you all a very happy and restful holiday season!
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape
Anna March’s Reading Mixtape will return after the holidays. She looks forward to offering you a bevy of reading recommendations in 2016, and wishes you all a very happy and restful holiday season!
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #13: Bob Dylan
That’s how I experience the world, courtesy of Bob. I’m lucky. Bob will get you through.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #12: The Art and Craft of Writing
The writing advice I give is this: 1) Sit down 2) Write These wise and talented writers have more to say.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #11: Thanksgiving Is Racist as Hell
It’s long past time to explode some myths about Indigenous Peoples, whites and Thanksgiving. For many of us in the US, Thanksgiving has become a day to reunite with friends and family, watch football and gorge ourselves on an enormous feast. Giving thanks has taken a back seat and the truth about the massacres and […]
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In the Saturday Essay, Anna March takes an unflinching look at the historical film Suffragette, which attempts to portray the women who took part in the suffrage movement during the early 1900s. While the film does draw attention to feminist successes, it glosses over the flaws of early activists, such as Susan B. Anthony, and the […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Suffragette and Feminist Inaction
A significant issue in the suffragette movement was its racist treatment of women of color.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #10: Remember AIDS?
AIDS isn’t over, but far too many think it is. Not everyone is haunted by remembering the dying, the friends gone gaunt, the lesions appearing, the artists dropping out of sight, the funerals, the lie-filled obituaries, the terrified waits for results of blood tests taken by nurses wearing masks and triple gloves.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #9: We Shall Overcome?
Last year on our way to and from getting married in New Orleans, my now husband and I went on a civil rights pilgrimage. We went to Montgomery and Birmingham; we went to Selma. We drove the Pettus Bridge there in Selma a dozen times, imagining, feeling a weighty sadness all over. I want to […]
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #8: Abortion: My Body, My Choice
“He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women – it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.” […]
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #7: Guns
Guns are pervasive in American society. Whether it is the prominent role they frequently play in various forms of entertainment or the epidemic of gun violence, it seems they are everywhere. With more mass shootings than there have been days this year, it is virtually impossible to turn on the news without hearing about the […]
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #6: Eat Me: Delicious Food Memoirs
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and […]
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #5: Rad Girls
We should all implant these terrific girls in our brains. Reading excellent kid’s books as an adult reveals the world to us in new ways, reminds us of childhood and teaches us about our young selves from a new perspective.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #4: Water, Water, Everywhere
It’s hard to escape news about water these days. Drought on the West Coast, hurricane season raging on the East Coast, and NASA found water on Mars. No matter where you are, these books will drench you.
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #3: Dogs
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” –Groucho Marx
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #2: Line My Eyes and Call Me Pretty?
Every one of these gorgeously written books will explode your brain and the stories will transport you, even as they grapple with binaries, traditional roles, narrow expectations, breaking free, who we are…. and who we long to be. Sex, gender, identity, sexuality…as much as anything, this reading list is about being human. Enjoy.
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The Last Book I Loved: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
What makes a person who they are? Is evil born or made?
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First, Brandon Hicks takes an illustrative look at a few hypothetical situations. And in the Saturday interview, Anna March talks with Salon editor and author Sarah Hepola about alcoholism and the distorted worldview that comes along with it. Hepola talks movingly about her blackouts, which became the “through line” in her memoir of the same name. A breakthrough […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Sarah Hepola
Editor and writer Sarah Hepola talks about her new memoir Blackout, how gender affects alcoholism, writing about female friendships, and the writers who’ve influenced her.
...moreDon’t Miss the LA Launch of Saint Mazie
Los Angelinos, come out on Sunday to celebrate the launch of Jami Attenberg’s new novel, Saint Mazie. “Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she’s the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It’s the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty–even when Prohibition kicks in–and Mazie never turns down a night […]
...moreA Memo to Exclusionary Feminists
Feminists should accept and embrace Caitlyn and all trans and gender non-conforming people and see them wherever they define themselves on a broad gender spectrum. The project of ending misogyny and patriarchy is one that not only inextricably includes them, but should center around trans women, because the violence and rejection society throws at them […]
...moreWelcome to the Rest of Your Life
Building a life based on lies was how my parents had taught me to live, and it would take a full twenty-one years after I left home the first time, at seventeen, to begin to try to do it differently. To unravel my past, to build a life hinged on the simple premise that I […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Dasha Kelly
In this interview with Anna March, Dasha Kelly talks about her new novel Almost Crimson and what happens “when your mother is the reason for everything but at fault for nothing”.
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For National Poetry Month Days 25 & 26, Christian Anton Gerard and Ada Limon provide us with poems of love and luck. Then, Sean Donovan has good things to say in his Saturday Review of the film It Follows, a “clever” tribute to John Carpenter and the horror cinema of the 80s. It Follows is refreshing […]
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The Fine Art of Fucking Up by Cate Dicharry
Cate Dicharry’s excellent debut novel, The Fine Art of Fucking Up, weaves humor and humanity to explore one woman’s personal and professional dissatisfaction and to suggest how we all might be able to cleave past our setbacks to find our own joy. Dicharry assembles a delightfully absurd cast of characters. The protagonist, Nina Lanning, is the […]
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