Rita Bullwinkel
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An Interview With Rita Bullwinkel March 20, 2024
Rita Bullwinkel is the author of Belly Up, a story collection that won the Believer Book Award. The winner of a 2022 Whiting Award, she is the editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly, a contributing editor at NOON, and an Assistant Professor of English at Un...
The Body as Tool: A Conversation with Rita Bullwinkel March 19, 2024
IN RITA BULLWINKEL’S debut novel Headshot (2024), the 12th Annual Women’s 18 & Under Daughters of America Cup takes place at Bob’s Boxing Palace over two July days in Reno, Nevada. Each of its eight competitors steps into the narrative focus of the r...
How Rita Bullwinkel Wrote Headshot March 12, 2024
On a semi-regular basis, I interview authors about their writing processes and new books—you can find previous entries here—and this week I’m excited to publish an interview with Rita Bullwinkel about her excellent novel Headshot that comes out week....
Talking with Rita Bullwinkel March 11, 2024
For many people, particularly women in their 20s and 30s, 2023 was the year of the girl. Those 12 months gave us Barbie, girl math, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, girl dinners, and the coquette aesthetic—joyous rebuttals to the experiences of growing up t...
A New Voice in Fiction With a Mean Left Hook February 27, 2024
It takes focus and discipline and a certain single-mindedness to become a good prize fighter. It takes those same qualities to write a book as fresh and strong and sinuous as “Headshot,” Rita Bullwinkel’s first novel, which is set in the world of you...
