What to Read When You’re a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
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...moreFatimah Asghar discusses the new anthology she co-edited, HALAL IF YOU HEAR ME.
...moreSteph Post shares a list of books to celebrate her forthcoming novel, MIRACULUM.
...moreLiterary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreWe congratulate all of the NBCC finalists, and are especially pleased to have celebrated and featured the work of many of these writers on The Rumpus!
...moreAurvi Sharma discusses her memoir-in-progress, finding inspiration in ancient women’s voices, and writing against erasure.
...moreRumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family, from recent 2017 releases to longtime literary loves.
...moreMonday 6/26: Mel Goodman discusses and signs Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. ALOUD presents An Evening with Roxane Gay. She will be discussing her new book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, in conversation with journalist Ann Friedman. 7:30 p.m. at the Aratani Theatre. […]
...moreSunday 6/18: Sherman Alexie presents his memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me. WORD Jersey City, 5 p.m., free. Monday 6/19: Arundhati Roy presents The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. BAM, 7:30 p.m., $25.
...moreTelling a human story, with individuals experiencing the effects of an actual political issue—that’s my part in shaking the ground.
...moreEmma Sanders and Alina Pleskova charm us with their affection for each other, DIY ethos, and belief on Poetry Jawns, what matters is the work.
...moreSunil Yapa discusses his debut novel, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, radical empathy, growing up surrounded by politics, and losing the first draft of his novel in Chile.
...moreWhat has Arundhati Roy been up to since her 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things? This piece answers that, exploring Roy’s current writings on India’s Maoist rebels. “When her essay about the trip, Walking with the Comrades, first appeared in India last year, Roy was fiercely criticised for humanising these rebels. For […]
...moreThis week, the book blogs have went and gone political! Maybe it’s that it’s the off year in the election cycle and they miss the rabid infighting and corruption, or maybe it’s the news that the Kindle has already become the next thought police and will soon start force-feeding you Soma, but for some reason, […]
...moreKaran Mahajan discusses Family Planning, Indian literature, and the recent attacks in Mumbai.
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