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Literature

Confronting Buried Sexual Trauma

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks with Alexandra Kleeman with about her new novel, Savage Tongues

October 15, 2021 • by Alexandra Kleeman and Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi

On the publication of her new novel, Savage Tongues (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi sat down with New School faculty Alexandra Kleeman to discuss the rhythms of language, the influence of light, shadow, and landscape on prose, and the historical and political context of intimate violence. ...

A Near-Future Novel for Our Gorgeous and Beleaguered Present

Alexandra Kleeman chats with Helen Schulman about her new book, Something New Under the Sun

September 10, 2021 • by Alexandra Kleeman and Helen Schulman

_____ Upon the publication of her new novel, Something New Under the Sun (Hogarth, 2021), New School faculty Alexandra Kleeman sat down with Helen Schulman, faculty and fiction chair at the Creative Writing program, to talk about Los Angeles, the climate crisis, and writing about the very near future. The interview was presented by the Creative Writing ...

Something New Under the Sun

Drought, Hollywood, and corporate corruption in the age of alternative facts

September 10, 2021 • by Alexandra Kleeman

_____ Excerpted from Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman. Copyright © 2021 by Alexandra Kleeman. Published by Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Read an interview between Alexandra Kleeman and novelist Helen Schulman about Something New Under the Sun. _____ Alexandra Kleeman ...