Posts Tagged: Rachel Kushner

Notable Online: 7/11–7/17

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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Notable Online: 4/11–4/17

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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Notable Online: 4/4–4/10

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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You Never Win, You Never Lose: Talking with Gabriel Birnbaum

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Gabriel Birnbaum discusses his new album, NOT ALONE.

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Notable Philadelphia: 5/14–5/20

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Literary events in and around Philly this week!

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Notable NYC: 5/11–5/17

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Literary events in and around NYC this week!

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Notable San Francisco: 5/8–5/14

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Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!

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Notable San Francisco: 10/17–10/23

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Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!

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Notable Los Angeles: 7/9–7/15

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Literary events in and around L.A. this week!

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Notable Los Angeles: 5/21–5/27

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Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!

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Notable San Francisco: 5/16–5/22

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Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!

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Notable NYC: 5/5–5/11

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Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!

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What to Read When Things Go Nuclear

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Here are some books to read that will remind you that there is beauty out there, even if it’s hard-wrought.

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Voices Speaking Rather Than Words Written

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Simply put, there is no theory without struggle. Struggle is the condition of possibility for theory. And struggle is produced by workers themselves. At The New Republic, Rachel Kushner introduces the newly translated 1971 Italian novel We Want Everything by Nanni Balestrini, which takes place during a period of rapid industrialization in Northern Italy during the late […]

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The Rumpus Interview with Christopher Bollen

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Author Christopher Bollen talks about his sophomore novel, Orient, secrets and privacy, sexual orientation in fiction, and the lost art of the whodunit mystery.

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Rushdie Slams Withdrawn PEN Panelists

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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 […]

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All Aboard

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My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm. Not only was I seasick, I saw the population on board as hostile competitors to salvation. As the ferry lurched and rolled, we gave one another dirty […]

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Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay

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Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That” has spawned a new literary genre: the personal screed about loving (or leaving) New York City.

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The Rumpus Interview with Women in Clothes

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The Rumpus speaks to Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton about Women in Clothes, a new collection of essays and art on the intricacies of femininity and clothing choices.

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Notable NYC: 4/19–4/25

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Saturday 4/19: Chris Sylvester, Holly Melgard, Joey Yearous-Algozin, Jordan Dunn, and Eddie Hopely read at part three of the Brooklyn Poetry Summit. BookThugNation, 7:30 p.m., free. David Abel, Anna Vitale, Dana Ward, and Suzanne Stein close out the Brooklyn Poetry Summit. Wendy’s Subway, 10 p.m., free. Cassandra Gillig and Alice Notley join the Segue Series. […]

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Notable NYC: 2/8–2/14

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Saturday 2/8: Adelle Waldman reads The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (2013) with Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House. Brooklyn Public Librarty, 4 p.m., free. Adelle Waldman reads The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (2013) with Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House. Brooklyn Public Librarty, 4 p.m., free. Jocelyn Spaar and Masha Tupitsyn join the […]

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National Book Award Finalists Announced

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Here is the complete list of finalists for the National Book Award in the fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young adult categories. The finalists include Rumpus interviewee Rachel Kushner and Rumpus book club participant George Saunders—plus one of the judges in the young adult category is our Letters for Kids editor Cecil Castellucci! Congratulations to all the brave and hardworking […]

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The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Kushner

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Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers is full of energy. It is about people carving out their own worldviews into the established façade of the world. The artists in New York and the protesters in Italy are moving toward something different—something, if not more genuine, then at least more acceptable to their own sense of reality. Amidst […]

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