Notable Online: 5/2–5/9
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Posts Tagged: Meg Wolitzer
Notable Online: 9/13–9/19
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What to Read When You Want to Read Lolita
Alisson Wood shares a reading list to celebrate her debut memoir, BEING LOLITA.
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Notable NYC: 9/14–9/20
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Notable NYC: 4/6–4/12
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Notable Philadelphia: 4/2–4/8
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/18–2/24
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Notable NYC: 2/16–2/22
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Notable San Francisco: 1/23–1/29
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Notable NYC: 1/12–1/18
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Notable NYC: 9/22–9/28
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Notable NYC: 8/11–8/17
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Notable NYC: 6/23–6/29
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The Thread: Goddesses and Monsters
Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.
...moreNotable Chicago: 4/20–4/26
Literary events and readings in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreNotable Portland: 4/5–4/11
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 3/31–4/6
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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What to Read When 2018 Is Just Around the Corner
While we can’t promise that 2018 won’t find us facing more political upheaval, we can assure you that there will be great literature to offer moments of escape and inspiration.
...moreNotable NYC: 7/1–7/7
Sunday 7/2: Jennifer Soong, Rawaan Alkhatib, and Sara Deniz Akant present books from Futurepoem. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 3 p.m., free. Tuesday 7/4: Macy’s launches fireworks. East River – Midtown, Sunset, Free. Thursday 7/6: Scaachi Koul presents One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter. B&N 82nd Street, 7 p.m., free.
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What to Read When You Want to Hand-Swat Your Husband
Here are some book recommendations about husband-swatting ladies who you might adore.
...moreNotable NYC: 10/4–10/10
Saturday 10/4: Sasha Fletcher, Tracy Dimond, Morgan Parker, Sarah Bridgins, Jeffery Berg, Christina Drill, Anna Fitzgerald, Debora Kuan, and Mark Cigini celebrate the sixth month anniversary of GlitterMOB. Mello Pages, 7 p.m., free. Mark Bibbins, Emily Skillings, Nick Harbutas, and Amanda Smeltz join the Banquet Reading series. Greenpoint Heights, 8 p.m., free. Richard Foreman and […]
...moreOde to Malala
Girls Write Now, an organization dedicated to offering creative opportunities to underserved and at-risk girls in New York City public high schools, just released a music video called “Ode to Malala.” The song is based on a poem written by one of the program’s participants, and honors Malala Yousafzai, the education activist from Pakistan who was […]
...moreThe Works Behind the Work
Over at the New Yorker, Meg Wolitzer writes about the cultural influences that helped inform her novel The Interestings. They include Archie comics, folk music, and Michael Apted’s “Up” films”: A good chunk of what you need to know about the characters in the “Up” films is right there in their childhoods, and I suppose that’s true […]
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The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
The first 100 pages of Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings are just that: interesting, but short of compelling. In the late sixties, six teenagers meet at an arts camp named Spirit-In-The-Woods and coin themselves The Interestings, because in the insular world of a summer camp, everyone seems talented and interesting. We get to watch their friendships […]
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The Rumpus Conversation Between Jennifer Gilmore and Meg Wolitzer
Jennifer Gilmore and Meg Wolitzer interview each other about their new novels, and how to live deeply in your book to avoid living deeply in your own life.
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