Posts Tagged: Dana Spiotta

The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Cai Emmons

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Cai Emmons discusses her new novel, SINKING ISLANDS.

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Notable Online: 8/8–8/14

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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Notable Online: 7/11–7/17

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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Notable Online: 7/4–7/10

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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Notable NYC: 2/3–2/9

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Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!

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Notable NYC: 5/6–5/12

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Saturday 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.

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The Novel as a Character

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At Lit Hub, an excerpt from a vivid, metaphor-rich conversation that appears in the spring issue of BOMB Magazine in which Christopher Sorrentino calls the novel an “impoverished count, living in a ransacked villa, dressing for dinner every day,” while Dana Spiotta’s novel is a “derelict who rants about end times to passersby, mostly ignored but […]

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The Danger in Neat Identifications

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For The Millions, Edan Lepucki interviews novelist Dana Spiotta about her latest release Innocents and Others. In addition to exploring the process that went into writing the novel, the two discuss how to construct narrative by trusting instinct and intuition: It has a lot to do with intuition, and what you find interesting as you are writing, I […]

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Shaped by the External World

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Susan Burton profiles Dana Spiotta for the New York Times. Burton praises Spiotta’s work for its “ambitious” subject matter that explores the way we are “shaped” by the material world. In addition, the article discusses how Spiotta’s work has been gendered, and “cited in discussions about whether culture properly values the work of female novelists.”

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The Rumpus Interview with Annie Liontas

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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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Rock & Home

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Can domestic life and rock & roll flourish together in contemporary novels? Should they?

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