Notable Online: 8/29–9/4
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: rebecca makkai
Notable Online: 12/6–12/12
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2020
A selection of AWP 2020 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Next Letter in the Mail: Rebecca Makkai
Our next Letter in the Mail is from author Rebecca Makkai!
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Notable Chicago: 11/8–11/14
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable Chicago: 9/27–10/3
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable Chicago: 8/16–8/22
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable Chicago: 8/2–8/8
Literary events in and around Chicago 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 Portland: 7/11–7/17
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Chicago: 3/15–3/21
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable Chicago: 2/22–2/28
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable Chicago: 2/1–2/7
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable Chicago: 9/21–9/27
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable NYC: 9/15–9/21
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Chicago: 9/7–9/13
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable Chicago: 8/31–9/6
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable Chicago: 6/22–6/28
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 6/18–6/24
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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The Real People: A Conversation with Rebecca Makkai
Rebecca Makkai discusses her forthcoming third novel, The Great Believers, how she arrived at the book’s structure, and the story and its characters.
...moreNotable Chicago: 4/27–5/3
Literary events and readings in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around Chicago this week!
...moreNotable Chicago: 12/8–12/14
Literary events and readings in and around Chicago this week!
...moreNotable Chicago: 2/17–2/23
Friday 2/17: Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, Trayvon Martin’s parents, will discuss Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin at the DuSable Museum of African American History. Tickets are $15–20 and are available here. Saturday 2/18: Head to Township for Wit Rabbit Weekend #11! Readers include Matthew Corey, Molly Dumbleton, Diddle Knabb, and […]
...moreNotable Chicago: 12/16–12/22
Friday 12/16: Women & Children First’s annual Recommended Reading Night is back! Rebecca Makkai, Deborah Jian Lee, Emily Gray Tedrowe, Jasmine Sanders, and Thea Goodman will be discussing their top two favorite books of 2016, followed by a Q&A and book signing. 7 p.m., free. Saturday 12/17: Head to Bow Truss Coffee for the third […]
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Black Friday Sale and Rumpus Holiday Gifts!
This holiday season, give the gift of The Rumpus! We have plenty of holiday gift options for the well-read optimist or literary child in your life, and we’re kicking things off with a Black Friday sale!
...moreWriting about Humans
I don’t trust any writer who takes himself seriously. It’s all kind of ridiculous. Our job is to write about humans, and humans are funny. Over at BOMB Magazine, J.T. Price talks with Rebecca Makkai about her first collection of short stories, Music for Wartime; the overlap of fiction and truth; humor in writing; MFAs; and lots […]
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WRITER: Thank you. Thank you. Really. Because my whole problem is I’m incapable of noticing things I might want to write about. I walk through this world blind, and it’s not till helpful people shove things in my face and suggest that I write about them that I ever have an idea. Over at the Ploughshares blog, Rebecca Makkai writes […]
...moreMurder by Numbers
Over at the Ploughshares blog, Rebecca Makkai puts together a series of graphs depicting ironically depressing stats about books and writers.
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction
In the wake of the Charleston church shooting last week and with Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev back in the news, the world seems full of nothing but hate and intolerance, violence, and terror. But as families of the Charleston victims and the members of Emanuel AME Church know, as the bombing survivors and the […]
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