Through a Prism: A Conversation with Sarah Kasbeer
Sarah Kasbeer discusses her debut essay collection, A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN.
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What to Read When You Want to Read Lolita
Alisson Wood shares a reading list to celebrate her debut memoir, BEING LOLITA.
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/26–9/1
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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This week I found myself reading way too much about the Democratic primary. To what extent is the expressed dislike of Hillary rooted in sexism? Is being the first woman to win a primary contest in the United States giving a big f-you to the establishment, or is someone who’s been paid big bucks by […]
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For National Poetry Month Days 25 & 26, Christian Anton Gerard and Ada Limon provide us with poems of love and luck. Then, Sean Donovan has good things to say in his Saturday Review of the film It Follows, a “clever” tribute to John Carpenter and the horror cinema of the 80s. It Follows is refreshing […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Book Review: The Amazing Heft of Wendy Ortiz’s Hollywood Notebook
Wendy Ortiz’s writing pushes Lesley Heiser to ask big questions about what makes a war story.
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Fittingly ending the memoir with a scene at the La Brea Tar Pits, which trapped and fossilized the unfortunate prehistoric creatures who wandered into them, Ortiz speaks of her personal excavation as a perpetual journey, a necessary exploration of a hidden story. While personal, her memoir is also universal in its undertaking of that discovery […]
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