The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #222: Kathryn Scanlan
“I work slowly, from sentence to sentence, and attempt to stay attuned to opportunity.”
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Posts Tagged: Christine Schutt
Notable NYC: 1/11–1/17
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 5/11–5/17
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 2/23–3/1
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 3/26–4/1
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 3/17–3/23
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 3/10–3/16
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreGirlhood Comes Home to Roost
I think I always knew this story about the rural road where I grew up needed to be told. At the Believer, Annie DeWitt talks to Brandon Hobson about realism, ambiguity, and how her own childhood folds into her new novel, White Nights in Split Town City, out in August from Tyrant Books. Guiding lights […]
...moreTender Recollections
What, indeed, but ungovernable love? Such youthful sensations as the longing to be known wholly and exclusively by another McKeon remembers and tenderly records. Over at the New York Times, Christine Schutt reviews Belinda McKeon’s latest novel, Tender, a story about friendship and obsessive love.
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The Rumpus Interview with Annie Liontas
Annie Liontas talks about her debut novel Let Me Explain You, crafting voices, and the benefits—and occasional pitfalls—of returning to get an MFA after years of writing in the dark.
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