Posts Tagged: Roland Barthes

A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing

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I hope, by writing this, language can jar a wound.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kimberly Grey

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Kimberly Grey discusses her new collection, SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING.

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Desire Makes Storytellers of Us All: Anthropica by David Hollander

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What a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?

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What to Read When You’re Trying to Hold Your Selves Together

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Irena Yamboliev shares a reading list to celebrate LOOKING WAS NOT ENOUGH.

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Variants of Unknown Significance

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My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with María Sonia Cristoff and Katherine Silver

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Author María Sonia Cristoff and translator Katherine Silver discuss INCLUDE ME OUT.

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The Evolution of Present-Day Greece: Talking with Nanos Valaoritis

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Poet and author Nanos Valaoritis discusses the political and cultural situation in Greece today.

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What Is Vibrant and Hidden: A Conversation with Jenny Boully

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Jenny Boully discusses her new book, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life, construction of voice, occupying liminal spaces, and editing with sincerity.

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There Is No Answer: Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles

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As Sentilles makes clear, she is against the wars the United States is currently involved in, and war in general, but she’s critical of what that means.

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What Is Being Charted Here?: Talking with Jennifer S. Cheng

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Poet and essayist Jennifer S. Cheng discusses her collection House A, working “in the dark,” and the idea of home.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman

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Bite that apple, open that jar at your own risk and see how your garden grows, how hopeful you remain. Paradise is, after all, blissful self-ignorance.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Dugout

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So much of politics is symbolic speech in the service of the syncopations of the lives we actually live. But the ways we gather to vote is with our bodies. It’s the dance that goes along with those rhythms.

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New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger

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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.

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The Diaries Of Roland Barthes

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At The Book Bench, a moving exploration of Roland Barthes’ diaries, focusing especially on his unique handwriting: “Reading someone’s handwriting can be incredibly intimate and revealing, perhaps especially in an age of e-mail and texting. The confines of font streamline and depersonalize emotionality, in contrast with the romance of thoughtful script or the tragic desperation […]

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