What to Read When You’re Grieving
Marisa Bardach Ramel shares a reading list to celebrate her debut memoir, THE GOODBYE DIARIES.
...moreMarisa Bardach Ramel shares a reading list to celebrate her debut memoir, THE GOODBYE DIARIES.
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreLiterary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreKenny Porpora discusses his memoir The Autumn Balloon, addiction and alcoholism, writing truthfully about his mother, falling asleep at Burger King with his laptop while drafting, and how he finally found his personal writing style.
...moreClaire Bidwell Smith isn’t only a Rumpus interviewee and writer of Letters in the Mail—she’s also the author of a wrenching memoir about coming of age while losing both her parents. That book, The Rules of Inheritance, is now being adapted into a movie with Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role. Congratulations, Claire! We can’t wait […]
...moreThat house was the first place I felt safe after my mother died. It was the first place where I felt comfortable being the girl I had suddenly become in her absence.
...moreI moved to New York the week I turned twenty. I lived on the fifth floor of an East Village walk-up with a boyfriend I was too young to realize I shouldn’t have been with, and I got a job waiting tables in Union Square. A year and a half earlier, during my freshman year […]
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