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What It Is to Be Human: Talking with Ottessa Moshfegh
In Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, a young woman takes a year off life to sleep under the influence of various narcotics after the deaths of her parents. “I knew in my...
View ArticleThe Body Uncanny: Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch
The word “uncanny” came to mind several stories into Lidia Yuknavitch’s Verge, the author’s first collection of short fiction. The word itself appeared soon thereafter within the text, as if merely...
View ArticleNotable Philadelphia: 3/3–3/9
Tuesday 3/3: Kelly Writers House will host an evening with Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation. 6 p.m. at Kelly Writers House. The Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading...
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Notable Online: 6/21–6/27
Monday 6/22: Ed Doyle-Gillespie presents Aerial Act with Ellen Cherry. The Ivy Bookshop via Zoom, 6:30 p.m. EDT, free. John Perkins presents Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear Into Action to Change...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #226: Benjamin Nugent
Brad Watson, one of my professors at the University of Wyoming, used to tell me to think of a story as a musical composition, wherein each movement contributes to the effect of the whole—to try and...
View ArticleThe Plague within a Plague: Ethel Rohan’s In the Event of Contact
The fourteen stories in In the Event of Contact, Ethel Rohan’s third story collection, vary considerably in setting, characterization and feel, but they all intersect at the notion of human contact....
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What to Read When You Don’t Know Where Home Is
It’s easy to say that home is wherever the people you love are, but while there is, of course, some truth in that, it’s not the whole story. For many, home is where there is security, safety, a meeting...
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Notable Online: 5/23–5/29
Monday 5/24: Barrett Swanson presents Lost in Summerland: Essays, in conversation with Claire Vaye Watkins. McNally Jackson via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free. Lyndsey Ellis presents Bone Broth, in...
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Notable Online: 6/27–7/3
Monday 6/28: Clare Sestanovich discusses Objects of Desire, in conversation with Stephanie Danler. Books Are Magic via Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT, free. Dr. Jen Gunter presents The Menopause Manifesto, in...
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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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