Notable Online: 7/18–7/24
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Marisa Silver
Notable Online: 5/16–5/22
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 5/9–5/15
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 9/16–9/22
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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Monday 4/17: SEEfest presents Marjorie Perloff discussing and signing Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 4/18: Daniel Suarez discusses and signs Change Agent. 6:30 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Poet Elizabeth Powell signs Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter, and Angela Palm signs Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere But […]
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #59: Marisa Silver
Marisa Silver is a formidable writer. The world she weaves is masterfully laid out. Her sharp eye focuses on the brutal changes that women experience, not just emotionally but physically as well. Her beautiful, dreamy novel, Little Nothing, is a story of transformation and love. The book begins with the birth of a girl to […]
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For the New York Times, Marisa Silver reviews Jenni Fagan’s new novel, The Sunlight Pilgrims, which takes place in a scarily plausible world in which ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the average temperature is well below 0 degrees Fahrenheit. Fagan uses the novel to explore not only the very realistic effects that […]
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“Mary Coin,” by Marisa Silver
Marisa Silver in her new novel, Mary Coin, takes all this on and the result is a compelling, hard-to-put down story. As the cover of the novel suggests, the story emanates from the photograph, “Migrant Mother,” taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936 at a pea-pickers’ camp in Nipomo, California.
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