What to Read When You Want to Rethink Motherhood
Rumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to challenge traditional views of motherhood!
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Posts Tagged: Gabrielle Bell
Notable Twin Cities: 3/10-3/16
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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Notable NYC: 6/9–6/15
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #110: Gabrielle Bell
“We create little rituals to give us some kind of illusion of safety, to keep ourselves sane.”
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What to Read When You Want to Write Like a Mother
A list of books that wrangle, directly or indirectly, with motherhood and all that comes with it (or its absence).
...moreNotable Twin Cities: 7/23-7/29
Sunday 7/23: Dawn Reno Langley will read from her novel The Mourning Parade. Subtext Books, 2 p.m., free. Join author Jean Harper for the launch of her book, Still Life with Horses, which happens to be the winner of the 2017 Howling Bird Press Creative Nonfiction Prize! Sateren Auditorium, 7:15 p.m., free. Wednesday 7/26: Kathleen Anne Kenney will be presenting her new novel Girl […]
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What to Read When You Need to Understand Corrupt Families
As we wait for the latest Trump crisis-slash-scandal to shake out, here is a list of great books about terrible families.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Gabrielle Bell
Gabrielle Bell discusses her forthcoming graphic memoir, Everything Is Flammable, what it was like to mine her own life for subject matter, and how anxiety affects her work.
...moreWhat We’re Reading in April!
We’re very excited to share that our April Book Club pick is Gabrielle Bell’s much anticipated graphic memoir, Everything Is Flammable. Bell revisits her childhood home in the remote mountains of Northern California after her mother’s home, car, and belongings are suddenly swallowed up by a fire. Acknowledging her issues with anxiety, financial hardships, memories of a semi-feral childhood, and a tenuous […]
...moreAuthors Dish on Their First Time
As a first time novelist, I thought it would be fun to read what people had said about my book [on Amazon]… One of them said that it read like an MFA exercise. And that really hurt, because it was an MFA exercise. That’s J. Robert Lennon, author of The Secret History, talking about writing […]
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Gabrielle Bell and Jonathan W. Gray
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights at 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
...moreNotable New York, This Week 11/30 – 12/6
This week in New York Cate Blanchett acts in A Streetcar Named Desire, John Ashbery and Paul Auster read, Mike Daisey monologizes, an n+1 panel discusses feminism and love, Sherman Alexie talks with Rick Moody, Samuel Beckett’s Letters get talked about, and Charles Burns and Adrian Tomine stand around, talk and sign books at The […]
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