Laughing Through It: Emily Austin’s Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Morbid humor exists for a reason: to poke fun at our inevitable ends and lighten its emotional load.
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Posts Tagged: Rachel Khong
Notable Online: 8/2–8/8
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Online: 4/26–5/2
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 1/15–1/21
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 7/17–7/23
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 11/14–11/20
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 11/7–11/13
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 9/19–9/25
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreNotable San Francisco: 4/11–4/17
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 2/19–2/25
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 11/11–11/17
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 7/17–7/23
Monday 7/17: Jesus Ramirez-Valles discusses and signs Queer Aging: The Gayby Boomers and a New Frontier for Gerontology. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. 90×90 presents: Wirecutter. Celebrate the release of PAPERS with poets Bridgette Bianca, Amanda Wang, and Rebecca Lee, and artist Ana Chaidez. 8 p.m. at Cielo Galleries/Studios.
...moreNotable San Francisco: 7/12–7/18
Wednesday 7/12: National Book Award winner Julia Glass (Three Junes) reads from her newest novel, A House Among the Trees. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park. Thursday 7/13: RADAR Productions collaborates with Nomadic Press to present July’s edition of the Queer Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library. As usual, there will be cookies. […]
...moreNotable Twin Cities: 7/9-7/15
Sunday 7/9: Carolyn Porter will be signing copies of her book Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate. Barnes and Noble Roseville, 2 p.m., free. Tuesday 7/11: It’s Books & Bars! Join the monthly book discussion and live show; July’s featured book is Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Indeed Brewing Company and Taproom, 7 p.m., free. Wednesday 7/12: Graphic novelist […]
...moreNotable NYC: 7/8–7/14
Sunday 7/9: Rachel Lyon, Gordon Harber, Chanice Hughes-Greenberg, and host Madeline Stevens join Sundays at Erv’s. Erv’s, 6 p.m., free. Monday 7/10: Jami Attenberg, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Courtney Maum, Elizabeth Crane, Paul Lynch, and Chiwan Choi join the Franklin Park reading series. Franklin Park, 8 p.m., free. Madeleine Mermall, Camonghne Felix, Mia Kang, Rachel Kang, Jeffery […]
...moreNotable NYC: 5/13–5/19
Sunday 5/14: Juliana Huxtable presents Mucus in My Pineal Gland along with Diamond Stingily and Andrew Durbin. McNally Jackson Books, 6 p.m., free. Wendy Xu, Tobias Carroll, Jimn Han, Jeanann Verlee, and Keegan Lester join the Dead Rabbits Reading Series. DTUT, 8 p.m., free.
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The Rumpus Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert
This is how I think of it: there’s a contract between you and the mystery. And the mystery is the thing that brings life to the work.
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