The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #222: Kathryn Scanlan
“I work slowly, from sentence to sentence, and attempt to stay attuned to opportunity.”
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Posts Tagged: Diane Williams
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Idra Novey
Idra Novey discusses THOSE WHO KNEW.
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Notable Portland: 11/1–11/7
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/29–10/5
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable Portland: 10/5–10/11
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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The Rumpus Interview with Annie DeWitt
Annie DeWitt discusses her debut novel, White Nights in Split Town City, the 90s, and the brutality of nature.
...moreCommon Strange
Ena Brdjanovic describes the commanding, performative, discomfiting, and off-kilter folk tale qualities of Diane Williams’s recent story collection: In sum, the 40 short stories of Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine amount to a collage of beautifully trimmed and perplexing details, of moments that make us feel alien in a world we so readily recognize.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel talks about his debut short story collection, Upright Beasts, his interest in monsters, and what sources of culture outside of literature inspire him.
...moreHORN! REVIEWS: Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty
Another wonderful illustrated review from HORN!
...moreDiane Williams Q&A
McSweeney’s interviews Diane Williams, author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty. Williams discusses the humor in her short story collection, being read to as a child, and contemporaries versus dead heroes. “Elemental and timeless. You are very generous when you say this about my work. I can only pray […]
...moreDiane Williams Interview
January’s Rumpus Book Club selection is Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, by Diane Williams. This 2008 Believer interview with Williams is not to be missed. “I said that literature ought not to be the haven for tea time conversation, for polite speech—that most of us are nearly obliterated by all of our opportunities for polite […]
...moreJanuary’s Rumpus Book Club Pick
We are excited to announce that this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection is Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty by Diane Williams. You can get a sneak peek of four of the book’s stories over at McSweeney’s. Join the Book Club to get in on the action and read all fifty short stories, which “hum with tension, […]
...moreNotable New York, This Week 4/19 – 4/25
This week in New York NOON launches Issue 9 with a reading and party, a reading by notable New Yorkers of stories on their first time in New York, Maile Chapman and Ethan Nosowsky converse, Synesthesia–a game of artistic telephone–begins, and PopRally helps you silksreen record sleeves while listening to Real Estate live. MONDAY 4/19: […]
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