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Notable NYC: 9/2–9/8
Tuesday 9/5: Jesmyn Ward discusses Sing, Unburied, Sing with Ayana Mathis. Greenlight Fort Greene, 7:30 p.m., free. John Freeman is joined by Joyce Carol Oates and Lawrence Joseph to discuss Tales of...
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Notable NYC: 9/9–9/15
Saturday 9/9: Jessie Chaffee, Julia Fierro, Lev Grossman, Luis Jamarillo, Lisa Ko, Rob Spillman, Justin Taylor, Rakesh Satyal, Tracy O’Neill, Elissa Schappell, and Porochista Khakpour join SLICE...
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Notable Los Angeles: 9/25–10/1
Monday 9/25: Andrea Jarrell discusses and signs I’m the One Who Got Away. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Robert Lustig presents and signs The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the...
View ArticleThe Universal Tether of Identity: Caca Dolce by Chelsea Martin
As I was reading Chelsea Martin’s new collection of essays, Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life, I was in Vermont living in a dorm, so while in residence, I grabbed a few sanitary napkin bags from...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #114: Chelsea Martin
I knew I was going to love Chelsea Martin’s essay collection, Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life, as soon as I finished the introduction. The last sentence reads: It has been with this embarrassing...
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Notable Portland: 5/3–5/9
Thursday 5/3: Art Market PDX hosts their new reading series, IRL, featuring Chelsea Martin, Katie Piatt, and Anna Vo. Art Market PDX, 6:30 p.m., free. Poets Derrick C. Brown, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz,...
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What to Read When You Want to Read Funny Women
Following the uproar over Michelle Wolf’s funny and accurate, if searing, performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, we thought it might be a good time to highlight books by some of our...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #176: Richard Chiem
Walking to meet Richard Chiem in Seattle’s Capitol Hill District to talk about his new book, King of Joy, I passed a bar named Corvus. I stopped for a few moments to consider the coincidence. In King...
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The Mentor Series: Emily J. Smith and Chloe Caldwell
In the tenth addition to the Mentor Series we meet Chloe Caldwell, a writer whose career has looked quite different from the often touted “traditional” path of college, graduate school, and...
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We Are Not Gods: Talking with Elizabeth Ellen
It could be said Elizabeth Ellen is a literary godmother in the indie lit scene. As the deputy editor of Hobart Pulp, she has published countless emerging writers, generously giving of her time to...
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