Pick Your Pleasure: Talking with Liz Asch
Liz Asch discusses her new book, YOUR SALT ON MY LIPS.
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An Exploration of Belonging: Talking with Donna Hemans
Donna Hemans discusses her new novel, TEA BY THE SEA.
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The Mentor Series: Lisa Locascio and Aimee Bender
Lisa Locascio interviews her mentor, Aimee Bender.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Ayşe Papatya Bucak
Ayşe Papatya Bucak discusses her debut story collection, THE TROJAN WAR MUSEUM.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #183: Ryan Chapman
“[Y]ou really want to engage a reader, and not abuse their time.”
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Notable Philadelphia: 5/7-5/13
Literary events in and around Philly this week!
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Notable NYC: 5/4–5/10
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 3/4–3/10
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Circling Backwards, Snaking Sideways: Talking with Sharlene Teo
Sharlene Teo discusses her debut novel, PONTI.
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The Inward Place: A Conversation with Claudia Dey
Claudia Dey discusses her first American release, HEARTBREAKER.
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We Create Our Own Monsters: Talking with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto discusses her newest book, SHADOW CHILD.
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Notable Los Angeles: 5/28–6/3
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Twin Cities: 5/20–5/26
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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Notable NYC: 5/12–5/18
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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Moments of Truth and Beauty: A Conversation with David Rocklin
David Rocklin discusses The Night Language, the larger landscape of appropriation and empathy, immigration and power structures, and intimacy and representation.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “The Cinnamon Peeler” by Michael Ondaatje
How different the world of the poem was from Saudi culture, which draped me in black and insisted, it often seemed, on One Truth.
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The Big Idea: Dawn Tripp
Dawn Tripp discusses Georgia, her new novel based on Georgia O’Keeffe’s life, O’Keeffe’s distancing herself from feminism, and balancing biography with fiction.
...moreRushdie Slams Withdrawn PEN Panelists
PEN America announced on Sunday their intention to honor Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff with the Freedom of Expression Courage award at their May 5 Gala. The novelists Peter Carey, Michael Ondaatje, Francine Prose, Teju Cole, Rachel Kushner, and Taiye Selasi have withdrawn as hosts of the ceremony, claiming the French magazine promotes hate speech and […]
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction
With the Senate Intelligence Committee’s online release of their Torture Report summary and Melville House’s announcement last week that it will publish a bound copy of the summary report at the end of this year, torture has been in the air. Even before that, though, the murmurings of what has been going on at Guantánamo […]
...moreThe Last Book I Loved: The Cat’s Table
For years when I was young I would crouch beneath the dinner table to watch my parents drink after-dinner coffee and wine with an ever-changing group of scientists—a tall man from Colombia whose mustache is even more impressive than my father’s, a shy Chinese man who twice brought me folded paper fans, a thin young […]
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