Insatiable Hunger: Wanting, edited by Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters
If I could not morph into a rescue dog doted on by childless lesbians, at least I could luxuriate in this anthology.
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Posts Tagged: Larissa Pham
What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus recommendations for books to gift to friends and family this holiday season!
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Memoir Monday Online: Enjeti, Dancyger, Pham, Belc
Watch June’s online Memoir Monday reading!
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Notable Online: 6/20–6/26
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 5/23–5/29
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate APIA Heritage Month
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate APIA Heritage Month!
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Notable NYC: 4/13–4/19
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 5/26–6/1
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 3/10–3/16
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 9/16–9/22
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 5/6–5/12
Saturday 5/6: Jennifer E. Smith presents Windfall. McNally Jackson Books, 6 p.m., free. Carmen Giménez Smith and Aldrin Valdez join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
...moreNotable NYC: 3/11–3/17
Saturday 3/11: Carolyn Hembree, Neil Shepard, and Terese Svoboda read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Chris Tysh and Cole Swensen join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 3/12: Joshua Mohr discusses his memoir Sirens with Charles Bock. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free.
...moreThe Truth of Brushstrokes or Brushstrokes of Truth?
Autofiction is in these days. Discussing her first novel Fantasian at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins blog, Larissa Pham unpacks her perspective on inserting autobiographical elements into fiction: I knew that no matter what I wrote in my novella, given my history of truth-telling, there would be an implication that it was true. That it had happened. […]
...moreThe Ivy Halls of Racism
Larissa Pham writes about racism and Yale for Guernica: This tension is not new. It is a product of the systemic racism built into the institution, as ubiquitous as the architecture that characterizes the place in our shared consciousness. “Everyone who enters Yale is reminded that they’re in an environment that is a product of […]
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, a little creative encouragement from Grant Snider to jump start August. Then, in this review, Andrew Fulmer examines Jeff Alessandrelli’s use of the poetic “factoid.” Alessandrelli makes a series of successful allusions in his collection, This Last Time Will Be The First. It is a “contemporarily fresh” collection that deserves our attention, Fulmer argues. And in the latest The Last […]
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The Last Book I Loved: The Hours
Depression has a peculiar texture: sometimes, rather than sadness, it is an emotional flatline; the sneaking suspicion that you are play-acting.
...more“Ginger Is Good For Taking Care of Yourself”
“It feels like cheating,” Larissa Pham says in a Gawker essay titled “In My Shopping Cart,” “to write about culture by writing about food.” But it reads like anything but cheating. Pham wheels us through the grocery aisles of her memory, pointing out the Vietnamese food her family made with American ingredients, childhood treats with […]
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