Arts & Entertainment
Rumpus Women Reading
The following writers will read at this release event for Rumpus Women:
Jami Attenberg is the author of three books of fiction: Instant Love, The Kept Man, and The Melting Season. She has contributed to a number of publications including the New York Times, Print, Salon.com, and, of course, TheRumpus.net. Visit her online at whatever-whenever.net.
In three weeks Elissa Bassist co-edited Rumpus Women, Volume I with Julie Greicius. Elissa edits and occasionally writes for TheRumpus.net column Funny Women. Her essay "A Baker's Dozen of My Feelings about David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest" appears in Best of the Web 2010. Peruse www.elissabassist.com for literary, feminist, and personal criticism.
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Justine Hope Blau is the author of screenplays and books, recipient of several fellowships, and has recently finished her novel Scattered. She has two kids in college, lives on the Upper West Side, and is occasionally allowed out to hike in the country with her friends and dog.
Nell Boeschenstein's writing has appeared on TheRumpus.net, The Millions, The Morning News, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn and is working on a collection of essays.
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Marie Myung-Ok Lee is a novelist whose book, Somebody's Daughter, was chosen as a Booklist Best Book of the Year. Her essays have appeared in Slate, the New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Brain, Child, and New Worlds of Literature, a Norton Anthology. She has been a judge for the National Book Awards and a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo.
Michelle Orange is the author of The Sicily Papers and the editor of From the Notebook: The Unwritten Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The Virginia Quarterly Review, the New York Times, The Nation, and other publications.
Diana Spechler is the author of the novel, Who By Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008), and of the forthcoming novel, Skinny (Harper Perennial, 2011). Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, Details, Nerve, Glimmer Train Stories, and elsewhere.
