Notable Online: 9/26–10/2
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Edmund White
Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”
I’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.
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Notable NYC: 10/13–10/19
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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Notable NYC: 7/21–7/27
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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Notable NYC: 7/14–7/20
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 4/21–4/27
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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The Rumpus Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel
Amy Rose Spiegel discusses her debut memoir, Action: A Book about Sex, carnal confidence, and the nuances of sex-positivity.
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The Animals Die: On Reading Joy Williams
It might be a moment anyone of us has already missed. For all we know, we’re dead right now. Maybe this is it.
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The Rumpus Interview with Garth Risk Hallberg
Garth Risk Hallberg talks about his debut, City on Fire, living in New York City now and in the ’70s, and the anxiety and gratitude you feel when your first novel generates so much buzz.
...moreWay Back When
In the middle of a digression on the bar scene in Kansas, Edmund White took a moment to question its authenticity: Sometimes gay friends my age or older ask me if I ever miss the good-bad old days before gay liberation. Surely, they suggest, it was more fun in the Fifties when you had to sneak around […]
...moreNotable NYC: 6/21–6/27
Saturday 6/21: Jeff Dolven, Kathleen Ossip, and Thomas Heis celebrate two decades of independent poetry with Sarabande Books. Berl’s Poetry, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 6/22: Lorin Roser, Russell Leong, Luis H. Francia, and Larry Litt combine poetry with experimental music. Bowery Poetry Club, 6 p.m., free. Monday 6/23: Edmund White moderates a discussion between Michael […]
...moreNotable NYC: 3/29–4/4
Saturday 3/29: Courtney Zoffness, Marin Gazzaniga, Lisa Dierbeck, Marian Fontana read as part of the Brooklyn Writers Space series. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Joe Meno, Carl Phillips, and Simone White read at the Washington Square issue launch party. Meno’s Office Girl (2012) follows two young people enduring together millennial angst. NYU Creative Writing House, 7 […]
...moreCandid Convo with Edmund White
Vice interviews author Edmund White. The conversation covers porn, the perfect man, “gay-lit,” and a lot more. “No one tries to figure out how someone ended up straight, though it takes just as much explaining as being gay. All etiological arguments are reactionary from the start.”
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