Notable Online: 4/18–4/24
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Elaine Blair
Notable Los Angeles: 9/16–9/22
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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John D’Agata, visionary champion of the essay and master anthologizer, sees the lyric form “partake of the poem in its density and shapeliness, it’s distillation of ideas and musicality of language.” He also sees it as unbound to conventional notions of truth. Writing for Harper’s, Elaine Blair critiques the genre-bending, exploratory practices of writers like David Shields, […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell talks about her new novella Women, gender nectar, break-up grief, and her impatience with analyzing the fiction/nonfiction divide.
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