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Lisa Carver

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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • December 15, 2014
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…
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Sunday Links

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • December 14, 2014
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…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Get Rejected

  • Lisa Carver
  • December 14, 2014
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

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • August 25, 2013
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

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • February 5, 2012
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,…
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