Rupal Rao

Apr 19, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Omri Boehm |Annell López |Rupal Rao

I grew up in a place called the Main Line, a string of suburbs outside Philadelphia. The area got its nickname from a branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad first laid in the early nineteenth century as part of a Federalist public works program. In the next several decades, the railroad also became a passenger line, ferrying upper-class Philadelphians, eager to escape the summer’s heat and epidemic diseases, out to the healthful Haverford and Bryn Mawr hotels.

Apr 18, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Annell López |Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Helen Schulman |Rupal Rao

Cover of I’ll Give You a Reason by Annell López (The Feminist Press, 2024)Reading Annell López’s short story collection, I’ll Give You a Reason (The Feminist Press, 2024), is like strolling through a neighborhood and getting to know the locals along the way. All the short stories are connected; the protagonist of one story might reappear later in the book as a bit player in someone else’s narrative.