Lisa Carver
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, say hello to our new Saturday media editor, Arielle Bernstein! Then, in “All The World’s A Stage,” Grant Snider neatly illustrates our inner performer. Poet Kent Shaw marvels at the “glandular muscularity” of water as a theme in Harmony…
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Sunday Links
I find Lisa Carver’s bracing words about rejection fun to read but painful to put in practice. Here’s some scientific proof that rejection physically hurts. What makes me feel better about rejection? Reading about how it was meted out to…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Get Rejected
In this excerpt from her new book How Not to Write, Lisa Carver explains why it’s good to get rejected.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Lisa, Wolf, and the World
What is the price of art–of inspiration? Shaken by the dire financial need of one of her youthful punk idols, Zoe Zolbrod powerfully re-examines her own relationship to the middle-class ethos.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview with Lisa Carver
I first heard of Lisa Carver in the late 1980s, when we were both about 19 or 20. Performing under the name Lisa Suckdog in shows that involved screeching, screaming, pissing, and violence, she was often spoken of in the same…