Notable Online: 9/26–10/2
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Wendy C. Ortiz
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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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2019
A selection of AWP 2019 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Notable Los Angeles: 10/1–10/7
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 7/23–7/29
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 4/2–4/8
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2018
A selection of AWP 2018 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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The Earth Recycles All of Us: Talking with Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Micheline Aharonian Marcom discusses her novel, The Brick House, female sexuality in literature, and transcendence through dreaming.
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What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Rape
A list of memoirs, fiction, poetry collections, and nonfiction that deal with rape culture and the many ways that is shapes our society and the women and men who live within it.
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 3/6–3/12
Lambda Literary Festival kicks off a week-long series of events celebrating contemporary, diverse voices in SoCal! All of them are free and open to the public. We’ve included some highlights here, but for the full list go to their website. Monday 3/6: Erika Lewis discusses and signs Game of Shadows. 6:30 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Yes […]
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Ben Tanzer
Ben Tanzer discusses his new essay collection Be Cool, why running is so important to him, and not being precious about his work.
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The Rumpus Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz
Wendy C. Ortiz discusses her new book Bruja, what a “dreamoire” is, the magic all around us, and why she loves indices—and cats.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Fairy Tales, Trauma, Writing into Dissociation
Our bodies are incredible and intelligent things.
...moreNext Letter in the Mail: Wendy C. Ortiz
Wendy C. Ortiz wants to have a conversation with people and books. And she wants books to have conversations with books and people. Subscribe to Letters in the Mail before July 27 and join the conversation! Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, 2014), Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2015), and the forthcoming Bruja (CCM, 2016). […]
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Growing Up: The Rumpus Interview with Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea discusses life in recovery, the meaning of family, motherhood, and her new memoir How to Grow Up.
...moreHow to Survive Your Twenties
I survived mine by moving a thousand miles north to a forest with a great college and eventually finding an excellent therapist. Electric Literature interviewed Wendy C. Ortiz about her memoir, her upcoming book, and how she made it through her twenties.
...moreNational Poetry Month Day 25: “Rogue Benediction” by Wendy C. Ortiz
Rogue Benediction And we entered the Valley of the Rogue. And we slowed to a crawl. The night’s envelope sealed us in. After several hours, cars deep on the interstate, we resigned ourselves: this first night would be the gateway, the opening to a roguish place where I would no longer have answers, become unable […]
...moreWANTED: DEATH LAMENT
the dog born March 30th who I will find 6 months from now to know what it’s like to hurl myself down the mountain for the wind to blow right through me
...moreLove and Mark Ruffalo
Rumpus contributor Wendy C. Ortiz has an essay at The Nervous Breakdown about the two times she saw Mark Ruffalo and why she couldn’t talk about the first time for a long time. My daycamping-partner-in-crime was very excited about seeing Mark Ruffalo, and she really wanted to tell someone…but who is there to tell these […]
...moreGet Your Lunch Ticket
The fourth issue of Lunch Ticket is out and it features some of our Rumpus contributors! The featured essay is by contributor and former editor Seth Fischer. Here is a taste of his essay, “How To Make Your Family Proud”: “My essays have cost me clients, and some day they may cost me more than […]
...moreBeautifully Disturbing
“Thank you. I love when people write “disturbing” in reference to my work. “Beautifully disturbing”? Even better.” In the newest issue of Specter Magazine, Kameelah Rasheed interviews Rumpus contributor Wendy C. Ortiz! The two talk about her two forthcoming book releases, the courage to write personal stories, and the cross pollination of arts, among other topics.
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 10/7 – 10/13
Monday 10/7: Andre Dubus III presents and signs Dirty Love. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 10/8: Tongue & Groove presents readers Amelia Gray, Jeremy Radin, Pam Noles, Marsha de la O, and music by Kevin Sandbloom. 6:30 p.m. at The Annenberg Community Beach House. Free. There’s a $6 parking lot nearby. RSVP here. The […]
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
Ssshhhh. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of Rumpus weekend features. Like Wendy C. Ortiz’s mini-interview with Paul. You know, Paul, from Captain Pete’s Bait & Tackle? Paul says things like, “It sounds stupid but I kind of fell into ‘one of the top five notorious biker gangs in the country’ — that’s the […]
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #49: Paul of Captain Pete’s Bait & Tackle
Wendy C. Ortiz conducts a mini-interview with one of her favorite Facebook friends, who happens to be in a notorious motorcycle gang.
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
Check out these tasty Rumpus morsels, posted over the weekend! Wendy Ortiz interviews poet Louise Mathias about beauty, ecstasy, and eroticism…and “snakes and horses and sky and birds and hallucinogenic flowers, and stars, and the smell of creosote after rain, and…” When journalist Maggie Downs lost a friend in a skydiving accident, many of her […]
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Some Rumpus weekend highlights to brighten up your Monday: Wendy C. Ortiz interviews Eloise Klein Healy—the first poet laureate of Los Angeles and “who I wanted to be when I grew up.”
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