What to Read When You Wish You Were Heading Back-to-School
The Rumpus editors put together a list of books for Virgo season
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Posts Tagged: Mona Awad
Notable Online: 8/8–8/14
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 8/1–8/7
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 6/7–6/13
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/21–9/27
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/14–9/20
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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What to Read When You’re Seeking a Family of Choice
J. Ryan Stradal shares a reading list to celebrate his forthcoming novel, THE LAGER QUEEN OF MINNESOTA.
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Notable Los Angeles: 6/17–6/23
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable NYC: 6/8–6/14
Literary events in and around NYC this month!
...moreThe Woman’s Body as Rorschach Test
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Joy Horowitz writes about what she called “the emerging genre of Slut Lit,” fiction focused on the woman’s body as it interacts with the world, as exemplified in three new releases: The Bed Moved by Rebecca Schiff, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mono […]
...moreOur Bodies, Our Selves
For Hazlitt, Lauren Mitchell interviews Mona Awad about her book, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, and together they attest to the unhappiness and emotional energy that society demands of fat women, and the toll it takes on a body and a mind: It is hard, it’s like, can we step outside of […]
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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
E.B. Bartels reviews 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad today in Rumpus Books.
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