Notable Online: 9/20–9/26
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreJen Fawkes shares a reading list to celebrate MANNEQUIN AND WIFE.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreClare Beams discusses her debut novel, THE ILLNESS LESSON.
...moreAnjali Sachdeva discusses her debut story collection, ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD.
...moreClare Beams on We Show What We Have Learned and the “living strangeness” of short fiction.
...moreSaturday 5/6: Jennifer E. Smith presents Windfall. McNally Jackson Books, 6 p.m., free. Carmen Giménez Smith and Aldrin Valdez join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
...moreSaturday 3/11: Carolyn Hembree, Neil Shepard, and Terese Svoboda read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Chris Tysh and Cole Swensen join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 3/12: Joshua Mohr discusses his memoir Sirens with Charles Bock. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
...moreStephanie Reents reviews We Show What We Have Learned by Clare Beams today in Rumpus Books.
...moreBelle Boggs discusses The Art of Waiting about navigating through the difficulties of conception and fertility treatment.
...moreBecky Tuch discusses founding The Review Review, motherhood, creativity, and the future of literary magazines.
...moreFor Ploughshares, Clare Beams talks about the strange effect of reading a story in which someone reads a story: Paintings of people looking at paintings, like this one, can make me fall into a dizzy sort of hole. Gazing at the painting to find, there, painted people gazing at a painting, suddenly I’m not quite […]
...moreJust in time for back-to-school season, Ploughshares has this list of some of the most memorable teachers in literature.
...moreFour sisters, each vivid, but composed, really, of just a few brushstrokes. Here, neatly categorized for us before we’ve made it out of the first chapter, are four different ways of being a girl. There’s something tempting about this drawing of lines. For the Ploughshares blog, Clare Beams discusses why Little Women continues to appeal […]
...moreWe amplifies. That’s part of why writers are drawn to the collective voice, I think: it’s louder. For the Ploughshares blog, Clare Beams examines the use of the collective voice in literature.
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