Notable Chicago: 6/22–6/28
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Posts Tagged: Dana Schwartz
Rumpus Exclusive: “Guy in Your MFA: An Origin Story“
A Rumpus exclusive excerpt from Dana Schwartz’s memoir, Choose Your Own Disaster, out today from Grand Central Publishing!
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Notable Los Angeles: 6/18–6/24
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable NYC: 6/16–6/22
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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What to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2018
Rumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 4/16–4/22
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 4/2–4/8
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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The Rumpus Top 15 of 2017
We share our fifteen most-read pieces of 2017!
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What to Read When 2018 Is Just Around the Corner
While we can’t promise that 2018 won’t find us facing more political upheaval, we can assure you that there will be great literature to offer moments of escape and inspiration.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: My Name Is Jean-Pierre and I Am Still an End Table
I am glad to be free of that tyrant, even if it means I am an end table waddling inch-by-inch down this path on a foolish mission that might prove impossible. I may be an end table, but at least I am free.
...moreNotable NYC: 9/23–9/29
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 12/3–12/9
Saturday 12/3: Natalie Diaz and T’ai Freedom Ford join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 12/4: Jonathan Lethem discusses Italo Calvino. The Center for Fiction, 7 p.m., $8. Alexandra Kleeman and Kelly Luce join the Sunday Night Fiction series. Kleeman’s latest collection of stories, Intimations, feature neurotic characters with deranged comedy. […]
...moreGirl Not in Your MFA
That Guy in Your MFA is neither a guy nor a student in an MFA program. He’s actually a woman, Dana Schwartz, a Brown University undergraduate. Schwartz also runs the twitter Dystopian YA Novel that satirizes series like Divergent. She tells Chicago Reader that she invented the alter egos because her writing workshops had too many […]
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