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Your Job is to Tell the Truth: A Conversation with Edgar Gomez about High-Risk Homosexual

  • Celeste Chan
  • February 16, 2022
...if I’m going to acknowledge my fear, finding something about it that’s funny helps it go down easier. That’s how I survive.
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A Devotee of the Interconnectedness of Time: A Conversation with Ariel Delgado Dixon

  • Elizabeth Gonzalez James
  • February 14, 2022
"When I teach, my biggest hobby horse is specificity . . . Even boring people are specifically boring."
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Encouraging Messiness: A Conversation with Melissa Broder

  • Greg Mania
  • March 8, 2021
Melissa Broder discusses her new novel, MILK FED.
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Notable Online: 2/7–2/13

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 7, 2021
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History

  • The Rumpus
  • February 5, 2021
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Black History Month!
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Notable San Francisco: 3/13–3/19

  • Nishant Batsha
  • March 13, 2019
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/28–2/3

  • Xach Fromson
  • January 28, 2019
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 10/1–10/7

  • Xach Fromson
  • October 1, 2018
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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What to Read When You’re a Whiting Award Winner

  • The Rumpus
  • April 6, 2018
The 2018 Whiting Awards winners share books that have inspired them, plus a giveaway!
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Congratulations to the 2018 Whiting Award Winners!

  • The Rumpus
  • March 21, 2018
The Whiting Awards are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
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