Notable NYC: 2/16–2/22
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Posts Tagged: Briallen Hopper
Notable NYC: 2/9–2/15
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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The Delusion of Objectivity: Talking with Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison discusses The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, understanding that every text is incomplete, and whether motherhood has changed her writing.
...moreCruel Summers
We both survived; we both grew up and made lives for ourselves. But I still can’t bear to think about that summer. We could have died so many times. Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Briallen Hopper recalls a wild summer spent in her late teens while reviewing Robin Wasserman’s Girls on Fire.
...moreThe Worst Things We Do, We Do To Our Sisters
For the Los Angeles Review of Books, Briallen Hopper writes about what it means to be a sister: The five of us live in four states on two coasts, and over the decades we have done devastating and unforgettable things to each other. We’ve professed our dislike for each other; we’ve unfriended and blocked each […]
...moreA Different Kind of Spinster
I’m in my 30s and haven’t married yet, but marriage is not in my own top five questions and hasn’t been for some time. I’m much more interested in whether I’ll write a book or have kids, and much more defined and governed by race, class, gender, and the changing climate. I might feel differently […]
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