What to Read When You Grew Up with the Baby-Sitters Club
Marisa Crawford and Megan Milks share a reading list to celebrate WE ARE THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB.
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Join NOW!Marisa Crawford and Megan Milks share a reading list to celebrate WE ARE THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB.
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around L.A. this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around Portland this week!
...moreMonday 5/8: Write Club Chapter 63: Better Off Fed. Featuring Moramarco, Brian Sonia Wallace, Rachel Kann, Tanya White, Amy Gonzales, and Yelena Litvak. Co-hosted by Justin Welborn, Paula Killen, and Jeff Dorchen. 7 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater. $10+ Pay What You Can (it goes to charity). Stephen Sylvester, Mary Mallory, and Donovan Brandt present and […]
...moreYumi Sakugawa discusses her latest book, Ikebana, discovering meditation, exploring blank spaces, and drawing a world of sentient oranges and one-eyed monsters.
...moreWe have found that it takes a lot of time to practice walking slowly…
...moreInside the valley, a small village where all the villagers are invisible.
...moreWe used to share so much of ourselves with each other, so much so that our exchanged thoughts and dreams became an energy field of their own.
...moreAn invisible tiger containing an invisible jungle where invisible tigers roam…
...moreOnce upon a time, someone left an ice statue version of me on my door step.
...moreThis is how we have always known him.
...moreThese days I don’t remember…
...moreAfter a long and bitter argument, Bird Girl and Fox Girl parted ways to start new lives elsewhere.
...moreIf I can see them, I can name them.
...moreMonday 1/20: It’s MLK day. Help inspire the next generation of great minds, sign up to volunteer through 826LA. Tuesday 1/21: Joe Nelms discusses and signs The Last Time I Died. 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup. Wednesday 1/22: Poetry reading by Michael Palmer and Joyelle McSweeney. 7:30 p.m. at Otis College of Art and Design.
...moreWe’re absolutely thrilled to see NPR’s Code Switch blog highlight Rumpus cartoonist Yumi Sakugawa and her new book, I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You. Here’s a small glimpse of her conversation with Code Switch’s Kat Chow, this bit on a recent comic she drew for the Rumpus: …with “Moon Between The Mountains,” it honestly started […]
...moreNew Year’s Resolutions from Yumi Sakugawa include finding the bear in the stars and the lotus in the fire. What are your resolutions?
...moreChristopher Linforth reviews John Gosslee’s Blitzkrieg today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreHot on the heels of Yumi Sakugawa’s book announcement comes this one from another fabulous Rumpus cartoonist, MariNaomi. Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories, which is due out in spring 2014, will feature comics from MariNaomi’s Rumpus strip Smoke In Your Eyes plus a bunch of work you haven’t seen before. Check out the cover here!
...moreI keep seeing the same scene play itself over and over in my head.
...moreOur resident cartoonist extraordinaire Yumi Sakugawa has some very exciting stuff coming up. 1. She’s the author of our next Letter in the Mail, going out December 4. For more information about Letters in the Mail, click here. 2. She has a book coming out called I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You. It’s full of comics […]
...moreSee Yumi Sakugawa about the redemptive features of mind-entering snakes in Saturday’s comic. Speaking of mind-entering, in Sunday’s essay, Mag Gabbert catapults us into the head of a panicked teenage girl who has just discovered that she’s pregnant. This is very intimate, very honest.
...moreI placed my nose on your left shoulder and my eyes instantly welled up with tears.
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