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Jillian Lauren
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Notable Los Angeles: 3/6–3/12
Lambda Literary Festival kicks off a week-long series of events celebrating contemporary, diverse voices in SoCal! All of them are free and open to the public. We’ve included some highlights…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Brandon Hicks finds the essence of military conflict in his comic, “War.” Then, Arielle Bernstein talks to self-proclaimed “anti-racist feminist” Tamara Winfrey-Harris in the Saturday Interview. Winfrey-Harris’s blog, What Tami…
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jillian Lauren
Karen Halvorsen Schreck talks with Jillian Lauren, author of the new memoir Everything You Ever Wanted, about adoption, identity, and how to create new models for heroism and the family.
Next Letter In The Mail: Jillian Lauren
We’re sending our next Letter in the Mail from Jillian Lauren on December __! Jillian is the author of Pretty and Some Girls: My Life in a Harem. She previously did…
The Rumpus At The LA Lit Crawl!
Tonight! The Rumpus and Dirty Laundry Lit Proudly Presents: Show Me How! The event features Johnny Alfi, Natashia Deón, Kima Jones, Jillian Lauren, Susan Orlean, our very own managing editor Zoë…
Notable Los Angeles: 10/21–10/27
Monday 10/21: Shohreh Aghdashloo presents and signs The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 10/22: A release party for Two Dollar Radio‘s Frequencies #3,…
LA Lit Crawl: “Show Me How”
The Rumpus and Dirty Laundry Lit Proudly Presents: Show Me How LA Lit Crawl Round 2: Wednesday October 23rd 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. The Federal Bar 5303 Lankershim Boulevard North Hollywood…
The Rumpus Interview with Jillian Lauren
Jillian Lauren’s first book, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, tells her true story of living in a harem in Brunei. She is most recently the author of Pretty,…
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jillian Lauren
I wrote the book with a tremendous suspension of disbelief; I wrote it as if no one was ever going to read it. I know that sounds like a cliché.