Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
When my father died my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: “Oh man, I’m an orphan.” There’s also this relief: It’s done; it’s finished; it’s over....
View ArticleThe Big Idea #9: Roz Chast
“Old age ain’t no place for sissies,” my mom used to say, quoting Bette Davis. Sometimes I felt like responding, “Yeah, and taking care of your elderly mother isn’t that much fun, either.”My father and...
View ArticleNotable Philadelphia: 11/21–11/27
Tuesday 11/21: Celebrated New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast will read from her new book Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York. 7:30 p.m. at The Free Library of Philadelphia. Wednesday 11/22: Native...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #112: Roz Chast
Although I religiously read the New Yorker, I have to say that I wasn’t familiar with cartoonist Roz Chast until the publication of her graphic memoir Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (a...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 9/15–9/21
Saturday 9/15: Claudia Dey presents Heartbreaker with Leslie Feist. Books Are Magic, 7 p.m., free. Charlotte Seley, Sandra Simonds, Laura Marie Marciano, and others read poetry. Unnameable Books, 2...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #153: Julie Schumacher
Several years back, a writer friend asked a literary agent what the marketability might be of her comical epistolary. “Unlikely” was the answer. Comedy is nearly impossible to pull off and novels...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 4/3–4/9
Wednesday 4/3: Have lunch with last week’s Local Book Pick author! Meredith May will be reading from The Honey Bus at this literary luncheon. Orinda Books in Orinda at 11:30 a.m. ($20, tickets...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 1/15–1/21
Wednesday 1/15: “Mapping the Bay” features San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck with local poets Thea Matthews and Kevin Madrigal reading old and new work at City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 1/22-1/28
Wednesday 1/22: Michael Nylan is the first female scholar to translate Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, and she’s speaking at University Press Books in Berkeley at 5:30 p.m. David Talbot, author of the San...
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