susan orlean
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/23–1/29
Tuesday 1/24: Brad Schreiber reads from and signs Revolution’s End. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. The Atlantic‘s James Hamblin presents his new book If Our Bodies Could Talk, joined in conversation with illustrator Hallie Bateman. 7:30 p.m. at The Last…
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Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living edited by Manjula Martin
Today in Rumpus Books, Elizabeth Stark reviews Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, edited by Manjula Martin.
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Life Into Art: Memoirs Adapted for Television and Film
On Saturday, October 17th, join Rumpus founding editor Stephen Elliott, along with Susan Orlean, Jerry Stahl, and Evan Wright, for a panel discussion hosted by Derrick C. Brown about what it’s like to have your memoir adapted for television and film. All proceeds…
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #3: Dogs
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” –Groucho Marx
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Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay
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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Baby Panda Bears!
We’ll just leave this here: A Smithsonian magazine piece on the National Zoo’s baby pandas. And it’s by Susan Orlean. And it includes photos.
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The Rumpus At The LA Lit Crawl!
Tonight! The Rumpus and Dirty Laundry Lit Proudly Presents: Show Me How! The event features Johnny Alfi, Natashia Deón, Kima Jones, Jillian Lauren, Susan Orlean, our very own managing editor Zoë Ruiz! Hosted by the hilarious and brilliant Jeff Eyres. We’d love…
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Notable Los Angeles: 10/21–10/27
Monday 10/21: Shohreh Aghdashloo presents and signs The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 10/22: A release party for Two Dollar Radio‘s Frequencies #3, featuring readings by contributing authors Grace Krilanovich, Trinie Dalton, Sara…
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LA Lit Crawl: “Show Me How”
The Rumpus and Dirty Laundry Lit Proudly Presents: Show Me How LA Lit Crawl Round 2: Wednesday October 23rd 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. The Federal Bar 5303 Lankershim Boulevard North Hollywood Readings by: Johnny Alfi Natashia Deón Kima Jones Jillian Lauren…
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New Kind of Art: A @horse_ebooks Roundup
For the past few years, the Twitter account @horse_ebooks has delighted hundreds of thousands of followers with algorithmically generated excerpts of found text like “Everything happens so much,” “Crying is great exercise,” and “Unfortunately, as you probably already know, people.”…
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Less Face, More Book for These Reclusive Authors
Though it can be hard to remember between tweeting at your favorite writer and joining a Facebook event page for a reading, there was a time when many authors led reclusive lives with minimal self-promotion. Bookish has rounded up a…
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“It’s Not A Zero Sum Game”
“I think in general writers are pretty nice to each other. And it’s not a zero sum game. I think that people understand that there’s always room for another good writer. I mean there is not a fixed amount of…