Posts Tagged: elizabeth strout

A Fundamental Sense of Mystery: Talking with Cara Blue Adams

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Cara Blue Adams discusses her debut story collection, YOU NEVER GET IT BACK.

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Notable Online: 8/29–9/4

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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Writing toward Meaning: A Conversation with Ethel Rohan

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Ethel Rohan discusses her new story collection, IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.

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Writing What Bothers: A Conversation with Frances Cha

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Frances Cha discusses her debut novel, IF I HAD YOUR FACE.

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What to Read When You Want to Tread through Love’s Complications

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Shuly Xóchitl Cawood shares a reading list to celebrate A SMALL THING TO WANT.

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Notable NYC: 10/12–10/18

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Literary events in and around NYC this week!

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The Language of Grief: Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li

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To grieve is to demonstrate dedication to those we love.

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Notable NYC: 4/27–5/3

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Literary events in and around NYC this week!

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Jane Austen in Pakistan: A Conversation with Soniah Kamal

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Soniah Kamal discusses her forthcoming novel, UNMARRIAGABLE.

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Notable NYC: 9/29–10/5

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Literary events in and around NYC this week!

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Messy and Complicated and Real: Talking with Laura Pritchett

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Author Laura Pritchett discusses her two most recent books, death, sex, and being rural in modern America.

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Notable NYC: 2/24–3/2

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Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!

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Living in the Realm of the Subconscious: Talking with Melissa Fraterrigo

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Melissa Fraterrigo discusses her new novel-in-stories, Glory Days, writing speculative fiction, and how our formative years influence us later in life.

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Ten Minutes of Motherhood: A Conversation with Ariel Levy

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Ariel Levy on The Rules Do Not Apply, the illusion of control, and language’s inability to express grief.

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Notable NYC: 6/17–6/23

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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 Happiness. BAM, 7:30 p.m., $25.

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Notable NYC: 6/3–6/9

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Saturday 6/3: March for Truth. Foley Square, 9 a.m., priceless. Val Emmich presents The Reminders. Maxwells Tavern, 7 p.m., $7. Oliver Baez Bendorf, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Joseph Fasano, Megan Fernandes, Michael Homolka, Nomi Stone, and Leah Umansky celebrate Thrush Poetry Journal. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free.

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Notable Philadelphia: 4/25–5/1

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Tuesday 4/25: April Sours Bring May Flowers. Sour beer tasting. 7 p.m. at Jose Pistola’s. Yoga in the Park. 12 p.m. at Dilworth Park. Wednesday 4/26: Maggie Nelson reads for the Bryn Mawr Reading Series. 7:30 p.m. at Hepburn Teaching Theater.

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Notable NYC: 4/22–4/28

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Saturday 4/22: Mara Helal and Jeremy Sigler join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 4/23: Donald Nicholson-Smith and Emma Ramadan present Abdellatif Laâbi’s In Praise of Defeat, translated from the French. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 5 p.m., free. Rosebud Ben-Oni, Ben Pease, Cooper Wilheim, Isabella Desendi, and Marina Weiss join the Dead Rabbits […]

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The Rumpus Interview with Paula Whyman

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Paula Whyman discusses her debut collection You May See a Stranger, discovering truth in fiction, and how memory interferes with good storytelling.

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This Week in Short Fiction

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Remember Elizabeth Strout’s 2008 Pulitzer-prize winning novel in stories Olive Kitteridge? What if Olive could come to life in a film adaptation? Man. In a perfect world, probably Frances McDormand would play Olive, right? In fact, maybe we could just give McDormand creative control of the whole project, yeah? Probably if that happened, McDormand would […]

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