Notable NYC: 7/6–7/12
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Posts Tagged: Kathleen Alcott
Notable NYC: 6/8–6/14
Literary events in and around NYC this month!
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Notable NYC: 5/11–5/17
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 4/14–4/20
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 3/3–3/9
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 9/23–9/29
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable San Francisco: 1/25–1/31
Wednesday 1/25: Perfectly Queer presents Funny Bits: Humorous Stories from East Bay Queer Writers featuring Ajuan Mance, Willy Wilkinson, and Anna Pulley. Free, 7 p.m., The Octopus Literary Salon. John Else (True South: Henry Hampton and “Eyes on the Prize,” the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement) in conversation with Spencer Nakasako […]
...moreNotable NYC: 8/29–9/4
Saturday 8/29: Ruby Brunton, Jasmine Gibson, Faith Heyliger, Stephon Lawrence, Melissa McDaniel, and Kayla Classy Morse celebrate Mellow Pages Library with Vapors Vol. 1. Silent Barn, 2 p.m., free. Sunday 8/30: Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher of experimental poetry, hosts a fundraiser. Paperbox, 3 p.m., $50. Hai-Dang Phan, Camilo Roldan, Jacqueline Waters, and Lindsay Turner mark […]
...more“Seeing” Setting
For Electric Literature, Emma Adler interviews Kathleen Alcott about her new novel Infinite Home. Their conversation covers topics surrounding non-biological family structures, and the importance of setting in Alcott’s work: I have a memory that is very much image-based. Maybe this makes me sound like a lunatic, but I sort of consider it a secret power, that I […]
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets
Another wonderful illustrated review from HORN!
...moreAlcott Rumpus Reading
Kathleen Alcott will be at San Francisco’s Alley Cat Books tonight, reading from her new debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (September’s Rumpus Book Club selection). The event will also feature Rumpus editor Isaac Fitzgerald in discussion with Alcott. Don’t miss it! Tuesday, October 16, 6:30 pm. Alley Cat Books (3036 24th St.)
...moreKathleen Alcott in San Francisco!
Kathleen Alcott will be at Alley Cat Books next week, reading from her new debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (September’s Rumpus Book Club selection). Join her on Tuesday, October 16, 6:30 pm. Alley Cat Books (3036 24th St.) Alcott has two other SF readings planned: Thursday, October 11 (tonight!), 7 pm. Belmont Library (1110 […]
...moreThe Daily Beast Loves The Rumpus Book Club
And we love you back. While I’m at it, a little update news. Our current book is Kathleen Alcott’s The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets—Bookslut covered it here and said “It’s never simple, but if complicated is what produces a novel like this one, we should be grateful for the messy, the broken, and the quiet […]
...moreA Rumpus Book Club Update
Rumpus Book Club members this month have been devouring Emma Straub’s Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and we’ll be chatting with Straub about her book this Wednesday night. Poetry Book Club members have been all over Mary Jo Bang’s new translation of Dante’s Inferno, and we’ll be chatting with her on Thursday. But what’s coming […]
...moreThe Dangers of Proximal Alphabets
Congrats to Rumpus contributor Kathleen Alcott! Her novel will be released by Other Press in September 2012 and can be pre-ordered here. “The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets centers around Ida and her neighbors, somnambulist brothers James and Jackson, and the unconventional family model they build. Ida’s fascination with their unconscious behavior and the conversations they have […]
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Names We’re Given, Names We Choose
My name is, has always been, Kathleen Alcott.
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Where I Write #8: The Strange Nooks of Our Bodies
Behind me there’s a bed that hasn’t seen anyone but myself since I purchased it four months ago when I moved across the country, and I make it every morning.
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The Last Book I Loved: Another Country
The beauty in Another Country is that it permits a reader to at once lament and celebrate the ways in which we use each other to further our own ideas of self.
...moreThe Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, Rumpus books reviewed Terry Castle’s book of essays, interviewed Elaine Showalter, wrote about Nabokov, and talked about grief and Hamlet. Come see what you missed.
...moreFUNNY WOMEN #13: Ask Jeeves
Hi, Kathleen. Thanks for writing. Perhaps I’ll answer your question with a question of my own: Where the hell have you been?
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The Last Book I Loved: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
The books I love are those tangled and overflowing: their magic is the product of the trust the author puts in his talent.
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FUNNY WOMEN #7: In Retrospect, Dating That Speed Freak Wasn’t All That Bad, Comparatively
God, he was smart! He had a mind like a hummingbird, he had read every book there was to read, his tongue was sharp, he was funnier than anyone else at the party.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Romantic Dogs
I always blanch when someone tells me—and always so assuredly, it seems—“ I just don’t really like poetry.” It’s more people, more otherwise avid readers than I would like to think.
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