Notable Online: 11/8–11/14
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Brit Bennett
Notable Online: 9/13–9/19
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Against Respectability: A Conversation with Raven Leilani
Raven Leilani discusses her debut novel, LUSTER.
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Notable Online: 6/28–7/4
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn discusses her debut essay collection, A FISH GROWING LUNGS.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Notable Online: 6/7–6/13
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Bodies Are Not Metaphors: Talking with Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett discusses her second novel, THE VANISHING HALF.
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What to Read When You’re Motherless and Mothering
Chelsea Bieker shares a reading list to celebrate GODSHOT.
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What to Read When Women’s Bodies Are Under Attack
Rumpus editors share a list of books to read as the fight for reproductive rights intensifies.
...moreNotable Chicago: 10/20–10/26
Literary events and readings in and around Chicago this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 10/9–10/15
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Samantha Irby
Samantha Irby discusses her new collection, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, her reluctance to call herself a writer, and writing for the “cream jeans” crowd.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Melissa Yancy
Melissa Yancy discusses her debut story collection Dog Years, using her day job for inspiration, and being “an old curmudgeon at heart.”
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The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Stacie Williams reviews The Mothers by Brit Bennett today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett discusses her debut novel The Mothers, investigating “what-if” moments, and navigating racism in white spaces.
...moreAll-American Girl
Over at the Paris Review, Brit Bennett profiles the role, or lack thereof, of black dolls among Americans today: Of course, you can still buy racist dolls. Golliwogs—blackfaced rag dolls—are still sold in the United Kingdom; only in 2009 were they finally removed from a gift shop on the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. Pickaninny dolls, racist […]
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