Bernadette Murphy
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #24: Pussy Riot
This column has been on hiatus since the springtime and I’m happy to be back. I’ve been reading so much—mostly books by women—this summer. While I’ve been away, I’ve been thinking about gender more than ever, if you can believe…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Interview, Randall Tyrone talks with writer Keith Newton about his innovative chapbook, A Week of Kindness, which reflects Newton’s fascination with surrealist Max Ernst’s 1933 “collage novel” Une semaine de bonté. Newton shares thoughtful views on organized religion, art as a…
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Harley and Me by Bernadette Murphy
Eileen Favorite reviews Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life by Bernadette Murphy today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Bernadette Murphy
Bernadette Murphy on her forthcoming book, Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life, the challenges of selling a memoir, and life beyond “the suburban-wife-mother picture.”
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Interview, Deesha Philyaw talks to celebrated writer Darryl Pinckney about his latest novel, Black Deutschland, and drawing inspiration from Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Stories. Pinckney describes Berlin as “a somewhere not everyone wanted to bother with.” Racism in American…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Evolve or Die
In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life, the author shares what she learned studying sea life on the island Mo’orea.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
For the love of God, hoist yourself out of that pit of self-loathing and read the Weekend Roundup: In Yumi Sakugawa’s Saturday comic, a man discovers tiny trees growing on his right arm—only to realize that their refusal to obey…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Last First Day
“My desires had now become too big, the call to a larger life too loud to be easily hushed.” As her children age and her identity as a Mother shifts, the author must step outside the safety of an outgrown…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Some Rumpus weekend highlights to brighten up your Monday: Wendy C. Ortiz interviews Eloise Klein Healy—the first poet laureate of Los Angeles and “who I wanted to be when I grew up.”
