An Interview with Denis Johnson
Disquiet’s beloved ’14 and ’16 guest Denis Johnson interviewed for Longreads: “Lying Down in the Dirt: An Interview with Denis Johnson”
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NOS Alive Festival falls at the end of Disquiet!
Check out the lineup for NOS Alive ’18 and see if this music festival is the way you want to wrap up your time in Lisbon!
Leslie Jamison’s The Breakup Museum
Disquiet Faculty ’15 Leslie Jamison’s essay on the Museum of Broken Relationships in VQR.
Walking Tour of Lisbon’s Painful Legacy of Slavery
“‘[This is] the other side of Portugal that isn’t well-known—the African side of it,’ Gaglo says. ‘In Europe, slavery is not taught the way it should be. I’m just trying to uncover what the secrets are and educate people about an important part of the history.'” Naky Gaglo’s tour also highlights Lisbon’s current African communities. Read more at Atlas Obscura.
Gabe Bump’s Book Deal of the Day at Publisher’s Marketplace!
Disquiet Program Assistant Gabe Bump’s brilliant and important novel goes big. Deal of the day at Publisher’s Marketplace…
DEAL OF THE DAY
Fiction: Debut:
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MFA graduate Gabriel Bump’s EVERYWHERE YOU DON’T BELONG, following a young black man who comes of age in South Shore, Chicago, where he navigates abandonment, police brutality, riots, teenage love, and familial obligations, and finds himself stuck in a constant search for a place to belong, pitched in the vein of Justin Torres, Junot Diaz and Paul Beatty, to Kathy Pories at Algonquin, in a six-figure deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Alexa Stark at Trident Media Group (World)
Alberto de Lacerda Translated by Scott Laughlin in The Common!
The Common’s December 2017 Poetry Feature is three poems by ALBERTO de LACERDA
Translations and introduction by SCOTT LAUGHLIN
Read more at The Common!
A Year of Emails with Padgett Powell and Jane Dykema
Disquiet Faculty Padgett Powell and Program Assistant Jane Dykema discuss Trump and babies in a year of emails. Read the conversation at FANZINE!
Faculty Terri Witek Wins Slope Editions Book Contest!
Slope Editions announces the winner of their 16th Annual Book Prize: The Rape Kit by Terri Witek, selected by Dawn Lundy Martin for publication in 2018. Read more about The Rape Kit here!
43 Reasons to Travel to Portugal
Though they forgot DISQUIET!
Three-time Disquieter Lara Gularte’s new book!
Congratulations, Lara Gularte, on KISSING THE BEE!!
“Poetry. California Interest. Azorean culture. Lusophone Diaspora. KISSING THE BEE is Lara Gularte’s first and long overdue collection of poetry to be published in a standard edition. To gain access to the significance of her poetry requires an understanding of the poet’s cultural heritage out of whose true diaspora of Portuguese and Lusophone speaking people molded her perception as a poet. Born in 1947 in San Jose, California where she grew up, her family came from the Azore Islands to look for gold in California during the 1800s and 1900s. Failing to find gold and “strike it rich,” her family turned to ranching to make a living. Her great, grandmother Maria Cabral-Neves, came to Fort Jones, California as a mail-order bride during this period, and today her homestead, remains a local landmark. Lara has memories as a young girl of her great grandmother telling her stories about the old country. As an adult she became curious about her heritage and explored family history. In so doing, she used the writing of poetry as a means to express what she learned about her family and culture.”
Pick up a copy!