Notable Online: 4/11–4/17
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: heather havrilesky
Notable Los Angeles: 4/8–4/14
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 10/10–10/16
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 10/8–10/14
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/29–10/5
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 6/12–6/18
Monday 6/12: Lou Cove, with Joel Stein, discusses and signs Man of the Year: A Memoir. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Harry Potter and the Sacred Text live podcast recording. This episode will be a deep dive into Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 11: The Firebolt. 7:30 p.m. at The Last Bookstore. Elizabeth […]
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Writing for The Point, Megan Marz explores the new “essayistic style” of advice columns and advice/fiction/memoir hybrids from writers such as Cary Tennis, Cheryl Strayed, Kristen Dombek, Heather Havrilesky, and Sheila Heti. Are these writers pioneering a “new literary genre”?
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How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky
Lyz Lenz reviews How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky today in Rumpus Books.
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Essay, Terese Marie Mailhot considers the strange and tragic ways life wounds Native American women. She remembers running away from her home, the reservation. “Native women walk alone from the dances of their youth into homes they don’t know for the chance to be away,” she writes. Meanwhile, Brandon Hicks considers alternative […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heather Havrilesky
We are in a chaotic mess of a world, and our lives are going to be chaotic messes no matter how victorious and shiny we manage to become.
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Over at The Awl, Heather Havrilesky, a writer without an MFA, has some humorous and candid freelancing tips for her MFA students and us readers. Havrilesky knows we’ll appreciate this advice, since she’s “one of the only writers [her] students know who earns actual legal tender from her writing—instead of say, free copies of Ploughshares”: It’s […]
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Heather Havrilesky
I wasn’t surprised to find that I enjoyed Havrilesky’s book and really related to it. There is so much overlap in our stories, I should probably hate her for beating me to the finish line by miles – thousands of them.
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