Notable Online: 9/27–10/3
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Danzy Senna
Notable Los Angeles: 5/14–5/20
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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A Heart-Centered Engagement: Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Thompson-Spires illustrate[s] the psychic traps set when myths take precedence over lived experience, when “the monstrous head deforms the face.”
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 11/13–11/19
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreNotable Portland: 11/9–11/15
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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HORN! REVIEWS: New People
[B]ut you’d never guess how funny Maria’s ruin could be.
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 9/11–9/17
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Danzy Senna
Danzy Senna discusses New People, inhabiting her characters without judging them, playing with the reality and surreality of identity, and pushing against traditional story arcs.
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What to Read When You’ve Made It More Than Halfway through 2017
A list of Rumpus editors’ favorite reads from 2017 thus far—books that have kept us sane, challenged us to work harder and think bigger, and kept us dreaming and hopeful.
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 8/21–8/27
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreWhat We’re Reading in July!
We’re super excited to share that our July Book Club selection is New People by Danzy Senna! From the bestselling author of Caucasia, New People is a subversive and engrossing novel about race, class, and manners in contemporary America. Heartbreaking and darkly comic, New People is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another, and ourselves. Marlon […]
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction
The news of Michael Brown’s death cannot be ignored. When one of our young people dies from shots fired by a police officer, there will be sadness and confusion. There will inevitably be questions, and questions left unanswered will lead to anger. This is a week, perhaps, when we need fiction and art to help […]
...moreNew Yorkers in Poets & Writers
The March/April Poets & Writers has a couple of great pieces on some New Yorkers to make note of. An article on writer Sam Lipsyte, whose third novel, The Ask, is being published this month by FSG; and a conversation between novelists Porochista Khakpour and Danzy Senna on first novels, race, and the East-Coast West-Coast […]
...moreThe Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s Sunday again, which means that my Grandmother is pacing impatiently somewhere beyond the grave, worrying about the fate of my immortal soul.
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Danzy Senna
We are all students of memory. Each of us has our own truth to tell.
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