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Address to The New School Graduating 2020 Class from Rachel B. Neumann (TNS ’01)
Rachel B. Neumann will read and discuss her speech on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.
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Dear Writers,
If, when I call you “writers” you don’t wince or duck your head or look behind you to see who I am talking to, then congratulations, you are cooked enough and ready to go out in the world. Only one other thing is required of you now and — unlike in some vocations, where it takes some work to figure out what to do —as a writer,
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Commencement 2020 with LIT Magazine
Welcome to LIT’s first ever virtual commencement and graduation party!
Click here on May 19th at 7PM to join.We have every reason to be thankful this graduation season. Lives have been changed, friendships made, goals achieved, and opportunities re-envisioned. Commencement speeches by Lara Love Hardin and Rachel B. Neumann will inspire you to reshape your story and to find strength in the struggles ahead, and Kristen Roupenian will offer her take on how to pursue life and success after the MFA, and how to navigate the digital world.
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Kristen Roupenian on Writing and Getting Your MFA, Interviewed by LaVonne Roberts
Kristen Roupenian will be interviewed on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.
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“Cat Person” was published by The New Yorker on Monday, December 4th, 2017, and by that Friday, it was the most-read piece of fiction of all time on the magazine’s website. It earned its author – who was then completing a writing fellowship in Ann Arbor, Michigan – global fame, quickly followed by a seven-figure, two-book deal.
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I read 4.5 million views.
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“26 Letters Refuse to Whisper” by Lynne Jensen Lampe with Artwork by Carrie Wilmarth
Above: “UNTITLED,” 2020. Oil on Wood Panel, 9 x 12″
As for saying goodbye, we don’t know how.
Shoulder to shoulder we keep on walking.—Anna Akhmatova
_As for saying goodbye, I know howbut don’t want to surrender to thesechanged lives & cautious moments. COVID-19,death-o-matic, that’s what I call you. A period jabbed into the heart of a sentence.Each day I look out my window & -
TNS After Hours May Reading – Good Luck Grads!
Please join TNS After Hours and LIT Magazine as we celebrate the MFA in Creative Writing graduates of 2020. Hosted by Alex Vara, and moderated by LIT’s Editor-in-Chief Virginia Valenzuela.
Mix a martini, crack open a hard cider or coke, put on some pants, and pretend like you’re in the East Village listening to the talents of:
Bailey Powell Aldrich
Scott Amen
Matt Dupre
Kelsi Lindus
Oliver Scialdone
Jenna Tang
Lori Lynn Turner
Lavonne Roberts
Jenny Ryan
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Click here tonight at 7pm to join!
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Lula Bajek
“Lula’s work is tender and predatory. This predacity is an ability to open a wound by means of a picture. This wound is a gate to sensitive seeing.”
Bronka Nowicka
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Agnes
