We Are Not Gods: Talking with Elizabeth Ellen
Elizabeth Ellen discusses her new story collection, HER LESSER WORK.
...moreElizabeth Ellen discusses her new story collection, HER LESSER WORK.
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreClaire Fuller shares a reading list to celebrate UNSETTLED GROUND.
...moreRohan is masterful at mining these triads for their palpable uneasiness and unavoidable suffering.
...more“I’m interested in beautiful events that are wrong.”
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around Philly this week!
...moreThough the stories vary in length and scope, each cuts deep into a truth of humanity.
...moreRheea Mukherjee discusses her debut novel, THE BODY MYTH.
...moreWho is Adèle Robinson, really, and what is it, exactly, that happened to her?
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreSally Wen Mao discusses her new collection, OCULUS.
...moreLisa Locascio discusses her debut novel, OPEN ME.
...moreOttessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel, MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION.
...moreLiterary events in and around New York City this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around Chicago this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreRita Bullwinkel discusses her debut story collection, Belly Up, the foolishness of writing, and what went into the making of her first book.
...moreRachel B. Glaser discusses her newest poetry collection, HAIRDO, her writing process, and the books and writers that have influenced her.
...moreMonday 6/26: Mel Goodman discusses and signs Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. ALOUD presents An Evening with Roxane Gay. She will be discussing her new book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, in conversation with journalist Ann Friedman. 7:30 p.m. at the Aratani Theatre. […]
...moreRecent Whiting Award winner Tony Tulathimutte discusses his first novel, Private Citizens, the state of satire in 2017, “booby-trapping” identity politics, and productivity in the Internet age.
...moreSaturday 4/1: Paolo Javier and Jill Magi join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 4/2: Robin Myers and translator Ezequiel Zaidenwerg discuss Conflations. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 5:30 p.m., free. Monday 4/3: Fiona Maazel, Alissa Nutting, Robert Lopez, Lance Olsen, and April Ayers Lawson join the Franklin Park Reading Series. Franklin Park, 8 […]
...moreJohn Maher reviews Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh today in Rumpus Books.
...moreSaturday 1/21: Women’s March on New York City. Resist. On Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th St and 2nd Ave, 11 am, free. Eléna River, Ryan Collerd, and Carol Snow discuss works of poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7 p.m., free. Mahogany L Browne, Purvi Shah, and Lauren Whitehead join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. […]
...moreMonday 1/16: It’s MLK Day. Take some time today to read one of those fancy new books you bought. Tuesday 1/17: Gregg Hurwitz discusses and signs his new thriller The Nowhere Man. 6:30 p.m. at Diesel Brentwood. David Lida discusses and signs One Life, in conversation with Alex Espinoza. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
...moreThis week, VICE’s 2016 Fiction Issue is out, with work from exciting voices like Ottessa Moshfegh, Rachel Cusk, Roxane Gay, and more. This year’s fiction issue, like the magazine itself, is an engaging, diverse, and sometimes in-your-face read with topics ranging from smart cars to campus rape, love triangles to the meaning of life. One […]
...moreWhen Ottessa Moshfegh wrote the thriller Eileen, a novel recently shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, she did it to get rich, reports Paul Laity for the Guardian: She didn’t want to “keep her head down” and “wait 30 years to be discovered … so I thought I’m going to do something bold. Because there are all […]
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