Voices on Addiction: Keep It Simple, Sweetheart
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...moreYanara Friedland discusses her book-length essay GROUNDSWELL.
...moreMusa Okwonga discusses IN THE END, IT WAS ALL ABOUT LOVE and ONE OF THEM.
...moreRobert L. Shuster discusses his debut novel, TO ZENZI.
...moreLauren Hough discusses her debut essay collection, LEAVING ISN’T THE HARDEST THING.
...moreWho said great literature has to make the reader feel good?
...moreLauren Oyler discusses her debut novel, FAKE ACCOUNTS.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreElvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
...moreSven Ratzke discusses his new show, WHERE ARE WE NOW.
...moreSeth Rogoff discusses his novels FIRST, THE RAVEN: A PREFACE and THIN RISING VAPORS.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...more“Understanding that you can have what you desire can be healing and transformative.”
...moreChloe Aridjis discusses her forthcoming novel, SEA MONSTERS.
...moreAmy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.
...moreAli Fitzgerald discusses her new graphic memoir, DRAWN TO BERLIN.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...more“I guess that’s true when you write a novel, you end up taking out so much.”
...moreEileen G’Sell discusses her debut collection, Life After Rugby, how and why she chose her book’s title, and challenging gender categories.
...more“ALL MELODY was imagined to be so many things over time and it has been a whole lot, but never exactly what I planned it to be.”
...moreAllyson McCabe talks with Anthony DeCurtis, author and music journalist, about the art of the interview, his friendship with Lou Reed, and teaching in the digital age.
...moreI hear a man singing for his life, desperate in a way he would never be again and had never been before.
...moreJeff Wood discusses The Glacier, his genre-bending book combining novel, poetry, screenplay, and collage, how heritage has become a brand, and the American Midwest.
...moreMick Harvey discusses his decades-long music career, working on cover songs written in another language, and finding longevity in the music business.
...moreBorn in Michigan but currently based in Berlin, Germany, Laurel Halo is one of the most compelling electronic producers around. Halo’s third album, Dust, is out now from Hyperdub, and is breaking all preconceptions about women in electronic music. Mixing experimental beats, synth pop, and abstract sounds, with techno hints that peek out in her live sets, the classical […]
...moreI left the car by the roadside and ran up the slope, in tears now, reaching the picnic tables and swings and, as bright and vivid as in my dreams, my purple-shaped climbing frame, exactly as I remembered it.
...moreWe tell the stories to fit the narrative we need. But within each story we must maintain the grain of truth that will provide the urgency.
...moreWriting is not just about expressing myself creatively, or even about having my voice heard: it is about releasing some part of myself.
...moreAt Hyperallergic, Gretta Louw reviews a new exhibit in Berlin, Contesting/Contexting SPORT. The transdisciplinary exhibit seeks to address the gross fallacy that professional sports can be removed from the politics of race, gender, and policed bodies.
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