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heather havrilesky
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Notable 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…
Personal Advice
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…
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.
Weekend 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…
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.
How to Write (for Actual Legal Tender)
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,…
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.