From the Archive: What It Is to Be Human: Talking with Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel, MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION.
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Posts Tagged: los angeles
Defying Gravity: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars
This book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: My Mother Fires Guns
You are never really at peace with what you haven’t gotten.
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Searching for Sleeper Trains
There aren’t enough trains in Los Angeles. Not enough for me to sleep.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: On Sight
You stood and put your hair up. It made you a different man. You got hard and decided you were why.
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A Space to Include the Excess: Talking with Janice Lee
Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Voices On Addiction: A Conversation with James Brown and Patrick O’Neil
James Brown and Patrick O’Neil discuss WRITING YOUR WAY TO RECOVERY.
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Accidental Altars
Choose, the specter points in opposite directions.
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Word by Word, Brick by Brick: Christine Larusso’s There Will Be No More Daughters
In other words: Larusso does some remarkably heavy lifting in this book.
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Encouraging Messiness: A Conversation with Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder discusses her new novel, MILK FED.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise
For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
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Criticism as a Life Practice: A Conversation with Yxta Maya Murray
Yxta Maya Murray discusses her new novel, ART IS EVERTHING.
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Westward, Onward
It comes down to this: I feel the need to prove I belong here.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Alice Bag’s Queen’s Quilt
My parents told me, “This is a special one for the queen.”
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Bodies Are Not Metaphors: Talking with Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett discusses her second novel, THE VANISHING HALF.
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Something to React To: A Conversation with Ivy Pochoda
Ivy Pochoda discusses her newest novel, THESE WOMEN.
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Notable Los Angeles: 3/9–3/15
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Keeping Time in Los Angeles
Music was noise, and noise was music, and George Antheil was on his way.
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Notable Los Angeles: 3/2–3/8
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Father Time Is Undefeated
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/24–3/1
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/17–2/23
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/10–2/16
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/3–2/9
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/27–2/2
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Stay Free: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
Cha constructs a Los Angeles sharply different from most representations of the city.
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/20–1/26
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/13–1/19
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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