Writing toward Meaning: A Conversation with Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan discusses her new story collection, IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.
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What to Read When You Want Subversive Remakes
Ethel Rohan shares a reading list to celebrate IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.
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The Plague within a Plague: Ethel Rohan’s In the Event of Contact
Rohan is masterful at mining these triads for their palpable uneasiness and unavoidable suffering.
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Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney
Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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What to Read When 2021 Is Just Around the Corner
Books releasing in the first half of 2021 that we can’t wait to read!
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Next Letter in the Mail: Ethel Rohan
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...moreNotable San Francisco: 4/26–5/2
Wednesday 4/26: Notable Spanish writer Andrés Barba is promoting the publication of Lisa Dillman’s translation of his novel Such Small Hands. This translation is the inaugural publication of Transit Books, a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature based in Oakland. This qualifies as a BIG EVENT. Free, 7 p.m., Diesel, A Bookstore. Perfectly Queer East […]
...moreNotable San Francisco: 4/5–4/11
Wednesday 4/5: The theme for tonight’s “Inside StoryTime” is “Chagrin.” Featured writers are Ethel Rohan (The Weight of Him), Jon Sindell (Family Happiness), Peg Alford Purcell (Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow), Amy Berkowitz (Tender Points) and Christine No. Hosted by James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns). Free, 7 p.m., The Makeout Room. Thursday […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Ethel Rohan
Writer Ethel Rohan talks about Out of Dublin, her memoir in e-book form, as well as growing up in Ireland, her awe for human endurance, and giving voice to the silent.
...moreAshley Farmer Release Party in SF
If you live in the Bay Area, you owe it to yourself to make it out to this release party for Ashley Farmer’s book Beside Myself, out from our essays editor Roxane Gay‘s own Tiny Hardcore Press. THP—and its associated litmag, PANK—are celebrating the new title at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco, where they’ll be joined […]
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
Hey. Kid. You wanna buy a weekend Rumpus roundup? If you missed yesterday’s Sunday Rumpus essay, “Through the Throat” by Ethel Rohan, you’ll want to correct that error immediately. A snippet: By then Dad was in the hospital six weeks and I had kissed him more times than ever before in my life combined and […]
...moreHere Are Some Stories Seth Likes
Here are some excerpts from and links to some very short writing that made my day better and hopefully makes your day better too. “Doesn’t it make you feel like an old-timey big-city career girl, carrying parcels up your stoop, struggling to unlock your door, when a handsome stranger in a suit comes up outta […]
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