What to Read When You Don’t Know Where Home Is
Claire Fuller shares a reading list to celebrate UNSETTLED GROUND.
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Posts Tagged: Elizabeth Taylor
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #231: Ruth O. Saxton
“While the past remains always present, old women exist in the present.”
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Notable Chicago: 8/2–8/8
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Sweet Bird
Every story needs to begin in a place of stasis, a comfortable zero.
...moreNotable Chicago: 3/30–4/5
Literary events and readings in and around Chicago this week!
...moreNotable Chicago: 11/24–11/30
Literary events and readings in and around Chicago this week!
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The Rumpus Interview with Nina Stibbe
Author Nina Stibbe discusses her new novel Paradise Lodge, our obsession with character likeability, and how she more than flirts with feminism.
...moreThe Other Elizabeth Taylor
Men write to me and ask for a picture of me in my bikini. My husband thinks I should send one and shake them, but I have not got a bikini. The New Yorker profiles Elizabeth Taylor (the famed novelist, not the famed actress) and explores her lasting influence.
...moreUrban Escape
Of course Zadie Smith’s written a science fiction epic, set on September 11, 2001, chronicling the haphazard relationship between Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, and Elizabeth Taylor. And of course it’s based on a true story, or at least an urban myth, supported by textual evidence, that she just felt the need to fill in the […]
...moreWeird Novels by Lady Novelists
In her novel Angel, Elizabeth Taylor turns the exploration of the relationship of the artist to her imagination, her drive, her self-opinion, her ego, on its ear.
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