Mary Gaitskill on The Old Guy
Mary Gaitskill, Disquiet Guest ’15, writes about an important friendship with a used bookstore owner in Cosmonauts Avenue, excerpted from A Manner of Being, edited by Jeff Parker and Annie Liontas!
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Guernica Special Issue: The Boundaries of Nations
Guernica, long time partner of Disquiet, has a killer special issue out, The Boundaries of Nations (including short fiction by Disquiet’s Jeff Parker!)
Dinaw Mengustu on his father’s Ethiopia and the ways in which imagination, memory, and politics converge in exile; Anna Ciezadlo visits Lesbos at the peak of the refugee crisis; Atossa Abrahamian on the buying and selling of passports and what it means to be from somewhere; author and activist Jasminko Halilović on growing up under siege in Sarajevo; director Jonas Carpignano on his film “Mediterranea”; Laura Kurgan in conversation with Bill Rankin on the politics of map-making; Rachel Price on contemporary Cuban art; fiction by Valeria Luiselli and Jeff Parker; poetry by Yosefa Raz and Aliah Lavonne Tigh.
Maaza Mengiste on Breyten Breytenbach
Maaza Mengiste, Disquiet Faculty ’16, writes on being mentored by Breyten Breytenbach in Guernica, an excerpt from A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors, just out by UMass Press!
Padgett Powell on Donald Barthelme
Padgett Powell, DQ Faculty ’14 and ’16, writes A Tribute to Barthelme in Tin House–an excerpt from A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors, available now from UMass Press!
A Manner of Being is out!
A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors is out! Edited by Disquiet’s Jeff Parker and Annie Liontas, featuring essays by Disquiet Faculty and Guests Arthur Rickydoc Flowers, Stefan Kiesbye, Noy Holland, Mary Gaitskill, Tayari Jones, Scott Laughlin, Adam Levin, Sam Lipsyte, George Saunders, Deb Olin Unferth, Rui Zinc… the list goes on!
The Restless Book Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Disquiet 2016 Fiction Faculty, Maaza Mengiste, judges this year’s prize! Find out more at Restless Books!
“Four Reasons to Visit Portugal Right Now”
Go to Disquiet 2016 and experience these things while you write!
Polina Barskova wins the Andre Bely Prize!
Congratulations to Polina Barskova (DISQUIET Guest ’15), who just won the Andre Bely Prize, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Russia, a very prestigious literary place!
The Best Secret Places In Lisbon
DISQUIET ’14 alums will remember secret #2, the famous red room where Denis Johnson read for us!
In Spite of All : A Memoir of Albert de Lacerda
DISQUIET is dedicated to the poet Alberto de Lacerda and wouldn’t be possible without Luís Amorim de Sousa. Now we have one of Luís’ memoirs about Alberto in English, In Spite of All, which chronicles the aftermath of Alberto’s death while saying so much about his life. Free shipping from England, too!