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deborah treisman
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Notable NYC: 6/17–6/23
Sunday 6/18: Sherman Alexie presents his memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me. WORD Jersey City, 5 p.m., free. Monday 6/19: Arundhati Roy presents The Ministry of Utmost…
Etger Keret on Racism and Parenting
In a primal sense, racism involves favoring the people who are closest to you genetically. It is funny how most liberal left-wingers (well, me, at least) would never think of…
Miracle and Magic
Check out Deborah Treisman in lively conversation with Lara Vapnyar on the “miracle of a New York City adventure,” the bewitching, wish-granting power of Leonard Cohen’s songs, and Russian immigrants.…
Tropical Islands of Privilege
Over at the New Yorker, Ottessa Moshfegh has a new short story, “The Beach Boy.” Moshfegh also sat down with Deborah Treisman to talk further about her writing: Isn’t it hilarious when people are…
All of the Above
Over at the New Yorker, Alejandro Zambra has a piece of post-fiction prose from his collection Facsímil; it’s a parody on the entire notion of education. Read Zambra’s thoughts on the piece,…
This Week in Short Fiction
It’s a week of New York stories. First, in honor of St. Pat and maybe too those of us still a little rocked by the Daylight Savings shift, note should…
Apollo Revisited
Tom Hanks (yeah, that one), lands his short fiction debut over at the New Yorker: I’ve been around great storytellers all my life and, like an enthusiastic student, I want…
Magical Thinking
When quizzed on his characters’ romantic proclivities, Haruki Murakami errs towards empathy: I occasionally think that, in our heart of hearts, we all may be seeking situations like this one—where…
This Week in Short Fiction
It seems impossible to say that someone was quietly assembling a story collection over a decade and a half when they’ve been publishing each of the stories one by one…
This Week in Short Fiction
On Monday, Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell began tweeting a short story called “The Right Sort” in multiple daily installments, compiled by Sceptre Books, readable from the top down. Set to conclude…
Videos of the New Yorker Festival
If you missed The New Yorker Festival, you can click here to see Rumpus interviewees Karen Russell and Junot Díaz talk to New Yorker’s Willing Davidson about children characters and…