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...moreChelsea Bieker shares a reading list to celebrate GODSHOT.
...moreContributors to INDELIBLE IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS share a reading list to fight the patriarchy blues.
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreRumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to challenge traditional views of motherhood!
...moreLydia Kiesling discusses her debut novel, THE GOLDEN STATE.
...moreA list of books that wrangle, directly or indirectly, with motherhood and all that comes with it (or its absence).
...moreSaturday 4/1: Paolo Javier and Jill Magi join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 4/2: Robin Myers and translator Ezequiel Zaidenwerg discuss Conflations. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 5:30 p.m., free. Monday 4/3: Fiona Maazel, Alissa Nutting, Robert Lopez, Lance Olsen, and April Ayers Lawson join the Franklin Park Reading Series. Franklin Park, 8 […]
...moreSaturday 12/3: Natalie Diaz and T’ai Freedom Ford join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 12/4: Jonathan Lethem discusses Italo Calvino. The Center for Fiction, 7 p.m., $8. Alexandra Kleeman and Kelly Luce join the Sunday Night Fiction series. Kleeman’s latest collection of stories, Intimations, feature neurotic characters with deranged comedy. […]
...moreI wanted what Ari wanted: affirmation that I could be a good mother while making mistakes and having ugly, difficult thoughts.
...moreScreenwriter and comic book artist Ariel Schrag discusses writing for different media, identity politics, and sympathizing with a straight male teen pretending to be trans in her new novel Adam.
...moreThe Atlantic gave the Rumpus’s own Sari Botton, Melissa Febos, Mira Ptacin, and Cheryl Strayed a chance to delve deeper into their contributions to the anthology “Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York.” In a roundtable discussion with Marie-Helene Westgate, they discuss what it’s like to leave a city that, as Westgate puts […]
...moreOn Wednesday, October 23rd, long-time Rumpus contributor and editor of the recent collection Goodbye to All that: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, Sari Botton will host an event in Brooklyn featuring reading and stories by contributors to the anthology and fellow New Yorkers with love/hate relationships of their own with the city. Rumpus’ […]
...moreMaybe you’ll be an actress. Maybe you’ll do stand up. Maybe you’ll suck dick for money.
...moreChocolates For Breakfast, Pamela Moore’s 1956 novel, is being reissued thanks to the determination of her son Kevin Kanarek. In 1964, Moore shot herself in the head, while nine-month-old Kevin was in the next room. “In The Next Room” is the title of Kevin’s afterword, included in the reissued paperback.
...moreAlbert, who is at work on her second novel, describes both books as “personal” as opposed to autobiographical, although they are rooted in her own experiences.
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