Notable Online: 5/9–5/15
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: erica jong
What to Read When You’re Looking for Desire
Melissa Matthewson shares a reading list to celebrate TRACING THE DESIRE LINE.
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Notable San Francisco: 4/17–4/23
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 4/15–4/21
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Revolutionary Anger: Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad
The most important idea within the book is that our anger, in all its shapes, is justified.
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Notable NYC: 6/23–6/29
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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The Rumpus Interview with Joe Okonkwo
Joe Okonkwo discusses his debut novel Jazz Moon, the quest for self-discovery, creative inspiration, and what it means to build a family when home is so very far away.
...moreDrawing History
For the next hour or so, we shifted in our seats, tense and transfixed. It felt like I was witnessing history, a dialogue I’d mostly been exposed to on the internet being brought forth into real life and vocalized by two important people. Over at Electric Literature, Mari Naomi draws a graphic report of the […]
...moreAwkward Feminist
The Guardian’s Anna Schachner has a run-down of the awkwardness that ensued between Roxane Gay and Erica Jong at the keynote address of the Decatur Book Festival on September 4th. While some audience members clapped, others shifted uncomfortably at the disconnect between Gay’s light-hearted opening and Jong’s seriousness. It was the first of many awkward […]
...moreHow Women Write About Sex
Do women have more trouble writing about sex than men? Claire Dederer, writing in the Atlantic, thinks so. As a writer, I find myself compelled to reconcile the blithe sexual picaresque of my youth with the contrasting Sturm und Drang in my heart and brain that accompanied it. Figuring out how to capture the doubts and […]
...moreA Mashup of Devils
These days one doesn’t have to look strictly to horror movies to find devils.
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