Bringing My Regular Bullshit to It: The Rumpus Interview with Dave Housley
Talking with Dave Housley about his novel THE OTHER ONES, available later this month.
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...moreRumpus recommendations for books to gift to friends and family this holiday season!
...more“Life is incredibly sad, but it’s also funny, joyful, wonderful, and strange.”
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreBy the time the television cameras arrive, the rest of the world may be surprised, but we’re not.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...more“I like marinating in uncertainty for as long as possible.”
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreWhat a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?
...moreBeth Alvarado discusses her new story collection, JILLIAN IN THE BORDERLANDS.
...moreI surprised myself by reading Memory in an afternoon.
...more“I’m interested in beautiful events that are wrong.”
...moreRamiza Shamoun Koya discusses her debut novel, THE ROYAL ABDULS.
...moreEmily W. Pease discusses her debut story collection, LET ME OUT HERE.
...moreKaren Russell discusses her newest collection, ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
...moreChanelle Benz discusses her debut novel, THE GONE DEAD.
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses FRIDAY BLACK.
...moreRita Bullwinkel discusses her debut story collection, Belly Up, the foolishness of writing, and what went into the making of her first book.
...moreCarmen Maria Machado discusses Her Body and Other Parties, riffing off the work of others, and how writing is like solving a math problem.
...moreLiterary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...more“Where does one draw the line when you as a person believe in progress, but as a writer feel like you need to focus on people who would challenge that, who would ask us to regress?”
...moreJuan Martinez discusses his debut collection Best Worst American, his relationship to the English language, and why Nabokov ruined his writing for years.
...moreJess Arndt discusses her debut story collection Large Animals, accepting love from other people, human bodies, and fear of the written word.
...moreChanelle Benz’s debut collection, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, is filled with characters often facing a moral crossroads. The stories contain the unexpected, like a classic Western complete with local brothel as well as a gothic tale. Benz’s writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Guernica, The American Reader, and Granta.
...moreHere are some books to read that will remind you that there is beauty out there, even if it’s hard-wrought.
...moreMonday 2/27: Tim Dorsey discusses and signs Clownfish Blues. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. ALOUD presents An Evening with George Saunders. The author discusses his novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, in conversation with author Anthony Marra. Featuring a dramatic reading by Phil LaMarr. 7:30 p.m. in the Writer’s Guild Theater. The event is full, but […]
...moreSunday 2/26: Writer, teacher, and artist Wendy Brown-Baez will read with special guests at the Banfill Locke Center for the Arts. 2 p.m., free. Monday 2/27: Poet Kao Kaila Yang will feature for the Club Book reading series at Rum River Library in Anoka. 7 p.m., free. Tuesday 2/28: The quickest reading in the city, […]
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