Quan Barry Archives - The Rumpus

A Breathtaking and Terrifying Expanse: Quan Barry’s When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East

“The distances are staggering. It could take you an hour to drive to a spot on the edge of the horizon, yet that spot feels like it’s just within reach,” Barry writes. “This is what it means to live on the steppe. There are no walls between you and nature. You are nature.”

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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion

With Steven Espada Dawson, Elisa Gonzalez, and Gaia Rajan.

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A Year In Rumpus Book Reviews 2020

A look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!

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Girl Power: Quan Barry’s We Ride Upon Sticks

But this is We Ride Upon Sticks: someone’s perm falls out, someone becomes prom queen.

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Notable Online

Notable Online: 8/2–8/8

Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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Notable New York

Notable NYC: 2/29–3/6

Literary events in and around NYC this week!

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The Post-Apocalyptic Present

For a smart writer, a ravaged future world also offers something like a perfect literary playground, a cleared field where everything from language to human psychology to social convention can…

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