Notable NYC: 2/17–2/23
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Meet Invincible Eric. Then, Matthew Daddona reviews Carl Adamshick’s “empathetic” collection, Saint Friend. The poet employs a “smooth and elegiac rhetoric that is more concerned with sonic repetition than it is flawless consistency.” Adamshick’s book is worth a look for its “flair,” its “speed,” and its willingness to experiment with form. And in the Sunday […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jeff Parker
“The book became the story of Igor, as a metaphor for Russia, in crisis. While Igor is not … some kind of Putin-era everyman, he is, like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, a man for his time and place.”
...moreNotable New York, This Week 7/12 – 7/18
This week in New York Diane Williams, Rebecca Curtis and Joshua Cohen read at The Bastille Day Soirée, Chuck Klosterman is back Eating Dinosaurs, Candance Bushnell embodies Carrie and takes us back to college, Christopher Finch tells us about Chuck Close’s Life, David Mitchell Reads, Soda Pop hosts a reading series, Williamsburg promotes Martial Arts, […]
...moreThe Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Hey, if you haven’t had the chance to take a look at all the stuff Rumpus Books has been up to lately, you should probably do that now.
...morePitt on Parker
The Rumpus assigned “dueling reviews” to the authors of two new short story collections. It didn’t really work out so well.
...moreCrown of Sonnets
An anthology of stories from the new Russia shows the continuity between contemporary writers and their canonical predecessors
...more“Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a crowd of Carhartt flannels.”
Jeff Parker‘s narrator watches from a dryer as the woman he’s laid claim to slinks off (and into bed) with a stout beef named Brick. The narrator confronts his rival, who lies naked with the fine-bodied Patsy, by punching him in the face. Next thing our hero knows, he’s wedged under an emergency brake with […]
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