Sara Finnerty
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Outside the Flow of Culture: A Conversation with Katya Apekina
Katya Apekina discusses her debut novel, THE DEEPER THE WATER THE UGLIER THE FISH.
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Notable Los Angeles: 5/15–5/21
Monday 5/15: Bianca Bosker discusses and signs Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 5/16: Brown Paper Press and Peter Gajdics celebrates the…
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The Meaning of Family Roles
I choose to believe the label “godmother” means something. I was connected to my godmother by the ceremony, and the birthday cards, and the word itself. She wanted to be that for me. I don’t believe in the holiness of…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
We hope you were so busy taking your mamas out to brunch and showering them with love and appreciation that you simply had no time for The Rumpus this weekend. We celebrated Mother’s Day with two very different interviews that…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #48: Sara Finnerty in Conversation with Her Grandmother, Elena Iocco
My grandparents, Luigi and Elena, were married on February 14th, 1947, in Italy, where there is no such thing as Valentines Day.
