• LIVE with LIT

    Address to The New School Graduating 2020 Class from Lara Love Hardin

    Lara Love Hardin will be giving this speech on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.

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    I have trouble walking through doorways.  I never get it right, I’m close, but always seem to catch a shoulder, a forearm, a hip on the frame.  I forget that I am someone who never quite gets it right, until I find the mysterious bruises on my body and remember.  As a child I used to walk down a city block and then abruptly make a right turn and walk into the wall of a building.

  • LIVE with LIT

    Address to The New School Graduating 2020 Class from Rachel B. Neumann (TNS ’01)

    Rachel B. Neumann will read and discuss her speech on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.

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    Dear Writers,

    If, when I call you “writers” you don’t wince or duck your head or look behind you to see who I am talking to, then congratulations, you are cooked enough and ready to go out in the world. Only one other thing is required of you now and — unlike in some vocations, where it takes some work to figure out what to do —as a writer,

  • Events,  LIVE with LIT

    Commencement 2020 with LIT Magazine

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    Welcome to LIT’s first ever virtual commencement and graduation party!
    Click here on May 19th at 7PM to join.

    We have every reason to be thankful this graduation season. Lives have been changed, friendships made, goals achieved, and opportunities re-envisioned. Commencement speeches by Lara Love Hardin and Rachel B. Neumann will inspire you to reshape your story and to find strength in the struggles ahead, and Kristen Roupenian will offer her take on how to pursue life and success after the MFA, and how to navigate the digital world.

  • Events

    TNS After Hours May Reading – Good Luck Grads!

    Please join TNS After Hours and LIT Magazine as we celebrate the MFA in Creative Writing graduates of 2020. Hosted by Alex Vara, and moderated by LIT’s Editor-in-Chief Virginia Valenzuela.

    Mix a martini, crack open a hard cider or coke, put on some pants, and pretend like you’re in the East Village listening to the talents of:

    Bailey Powell Aldrich

    Scott Amen

    Matt Dupre

    Kelsi Lindus

    Oliver Scialdone

    Jenna Tang

    Lori Lynn Turner

    Lavonne Roberts

    Jenny Ryan

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    Click here tonight at 7pm to join!