Creativity Tapping With Lynda Barry
Veteran cartoonist Lynda Barry is highlighted in this New York Times piece, which explores her current roles, specifically that of a “creativity guru,” teaching creative writing classes for...
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The Rumpus Interview with Lynda Barry
There is a quality that certain historic figures are said to share, a nearly indescribable feeling—not that these figures embody, but that they bring out in whoever they meet. The quality has been...
View ArticleThe Course Syllabi of Famous Writers
Imagine if the authors who created these syllabi for their courses were all teaching at the same school at the same time.“Who’d you get for English?”“David Foster Wallace. I hear he’s a hard grader....
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Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion
My introduction to the world of poetry comics came from the experience of co-publishing (with Cuneiform Press) Jon-Michael Frank’s book, How’s Everything Going? Not Good, and talking with Jon-Michael...
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Author Photos, and What I’ve Learned From Them
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View ArticleContentious Comic BFFs
You may have missed Matt Groening and Lynda Barry in Sydney this past weekend, but never fear: over at the Guardian, you can still read about their lifelong friendship, which persists despite diverging...
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Yona Harvey
Yona Harvey has the best laugh. It’s impossibly high-pitched, and if you were thinking about not laughing at what she’s laughing at, you can forget about it. We’re both fresh from AWP, and she is—we...
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Notable San Francisco: 10/4–10/10
Wednesday 10/4: Paul Madonna presents his new illustrated novel, Close Enough for the Angels. Free, 7 p.m., Moe’s Books. Lynn Horiuchi and Tanu Sankalia discuss Urban Reinventions: San Francisco’s...
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Call and Response: A Conversation with Hannah Tinti
Hannah Tinti’s new book, a coming-of-age tale called The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, follows the life of titular character, both in the present—as a widower raising his daughter in wife’s...
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People and Poetry: A Conversation with Kim Fu
When five girls become lost in the wilderness of a Pacific Northwest island without an adult to guide them, it’s easy to assume The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore is about whether or not they’ll...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #166: T Kira Madden
It would be easy to describe T Kira Madden’s debut memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls as a coming-of-age story, or as a memoir about trauma, or a memoir of growing up biracial or queer. The...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with T Kira Madden
The Rumpus Book Club chats with T Kira Madden about her debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls (Bloomsbury, March 2019), writing sections of her story in real time, how the book’s...
View ArticleNotable Los Angeles: 10/14–10/20
Monday 10/14: John Ibson discusses and signs Men Without Maps: Some Gay Males of the Generation Before Stonewall. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Gaby Dunn discusses and signs Bury the Lede. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Chelsea Bieker
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Chelsea Bieker about her debut novel, Godshot (Catapult, March 2020), Ina May Gaskin and learning that our bodies are not inherently wrong, writing about the place where...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sarah M. Sala
A tried and true rebel, Sarah M. Sala is a poet, teacher, and Michigan native turned New Yorker. Her recently published collection of poems, Devil’s Lake, is one of the rawest and most harrowing...
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Holding Uncertainty: Talking with Teresa Carmody
A brief confession: my parents managed to drag the family to church maybe ten times during my entire childhood, and yet they were superstitious enough to ensure that, through a series of loopholes, I...
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What to Read When You Want to Be a Patch of Moss
I wrote my graphic novel Headland over many years. It shrank and grew; it changed with me. During months of grief, when I felt my own outline getting blurry, my book became a doorway to the part of...
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