Posts Tagged: madison smartt bell

Notable NYC: 2/8–2/14

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Literary events in and around NYC this week!

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Notable San Francisco: 5/17–5/23

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If you can make only one event this week, don’t miss the Oakland Book Festival on Sunday, 5/21. This all-day festival features more than 100 writers, 50 panels, and lots of tabling and networking. And, The Rumpus will be there! Wednesday 5/17: Rakesh Satyal (Lambda Award winner for Blue Boy) reads from his new novel, No One Can […]

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The City in Words

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“They say fiction requires conflict; well, when New York was a war of all against all, you had all the conflict you could handle any time you put your feet on the street.” At The Millions, Madison Smartt Bell reflects on arriving in New York “without a literary footprint,” and the subsequent years of reading […]

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