Notable NYC: 2/8–2/14
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Posts Tagged: Helen Phillips
Notable NYC: 12/7–12/13
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Both Ways at Once: Talking with Helen Phillips
Helen Phillips discusses her new novel, THE NEED.
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Notable NYC: 9/28–10/4
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Notable NYC: 9/14–9/20
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Notable San Francisco: 7/17–7/23
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 7/10–7/16
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Notable NYC: 7/6–7/12
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Notable NYC: 6/1–6/7
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Notable NYC: 4/27–5/3
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...moreNotable NYC: 3/24–3/30
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2018
A selection of AWP 2018 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
...moreNotable NYC: 10/28–11/3
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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What to Read When Your Workplace Is Full of Drama
In honor of the World’s Worst Boss, we’ve put together a list of books full of workplace drama for you to read while we wait to see if we can get that orange guy fired.
...moreNotable NYC: 2/18–2/24
Saturday 2/18: Ryan Dobran and Wendy Letterman join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Kristen Gallagher and Ed Steck celebrate new books from Skeleton Man Press. The Glove, 6 p.m., free. Sunday 2/19: Elizabeth Hall and Melissa Buzzeo read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 6:30 p.m., free. Monday 2/20: Not My President’s Day march. Columbus […]
...moreCity Nature
When I look at the skyline of Manhattan, I get a feeling similar to when I look at the Rocky Mountains. People living in urban environments can have a relationship with the natural world, and in my writing I like to imagine what that relationship looks like. Over at the Chicago Review of Books, Amy […]
...moreWomen and Workplace Fiction
Over at the New Yorker, Lydia Kiesling writes about workplace fiction, typically seen as a male-centric dominion overseen by writers like Kafka, as written by women from Helen Phillips in The Beautiful Bureaucrat to Terry McMillan in How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
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Some Possible Solutions by Helen Phillips
Amy Brady reviews Some Possible Solutions by Helen Phillips today in Rumpus Books.
...moreYou Don’t Own Your Children
I mean, why not? Lit Hub puts Helen Phillips, author of Some Possible Solutions, in conversation with Matthew Vollmer, author of Gateway to Paradise, to talk about their writing processes: often, letting a story go off in strange, new territory. Like inside your belly button.
...moreThanks, Alopecia Universalis
Someday, will it be not myself but my daughter that I hold? At Lit Hub, Helen Phillips, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat and the newly released Some Possible Solutions, writes about parenting while (overly?) conscious of the critical eye, self-projected or otherwise, and finding moments of respite in the wonderful entropy of it all.
...moreThis Week of Short Fiction
New motherhood: it’s common but totally strange, completely natural yet weirdly alien, a beautiful miracle and absolutely disgusting. It can also have some strong effects on a woman’s perception of self and identity, as Helen Phillips (The Beautiful Bureaucrat) explores brilliantly in her story “The Doppelgängers,” chosen by Lauren Groff at Recommended Reading this week. […]
...moreSeeing Double
The new issue of the revived The Scofield is out, spotlighting the work of Dambudzo Marechera and a favorite literary motif: the doppelgänger. The magazine revisits classics from the likes of Poe and Dostoevsky, offers theoretical views on the doppelgänger, and shares fiction from contemporary voices like Helen Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen.
...moreHow Do You Contend with the Hubris?
For Salon, Teddy Wayne interviews six prominent authors on what has shaped their thoughts into word: with Lauren Groff, Alexandra Kleeman, Helen Phillips, Matthew Salesses, Steve Toltz, and Claire Vaye Watkins.
...moreThe Beautiful Cubicle Farm
The Beautiful Bureaucrat intentionally or not taps into contemporary anxieties around Big Data: how (and why, and by whom) the minutia of our lives is captured, and to what ends. Anna Wiener, over at The New Republic, dives into Helen Phillips’s new novel, The Beautiful Bureaucrat, and all its inner darkness as a narrative for […]
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