Notable Online: 4/11–4/17
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Kate Christensen
Notable Los Angeles: 7/16–7/22
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreThe Way We Were
Things in my own life that make me want to write about them are often things that are unresolved. And I use writing to figure them out. Memoirists Meredith Maran, Dani Shapiro, Ayelet Waldman, Kate Christensen, and Nick Flynn speak in a YouTube video about why they write about their own lives, and the best/worst things that […]
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #6: Eat Me: Delicious Food Memoirs
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Kate Christensen
Six-time novelist Kate Christensen talks about the shift to memoir, the benefits of blogging, using food as a springboard to tell the story of one’s life, and American society’s ongoing problem with pressuring women to be thin.
...moreFirst Muses
Remember your first muse? “My first muse was a chubby, bespectacled, brown-eyed, sharply intelligent 13-year-old boy in Phoenix, Arizona in 1975. When he laughed at and loved my writing, I felt the erotic surge of my own power. Since then, I’ve written for and about and to and because of men.” That is Kate Christensen […]
...moreThe Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Summer is coming. What will you be reading? Will it be that Henry James novel you’ve meant to read since 1987 or that book with the vampire-zombies with tantalizing unmentionables?
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