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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • August 14, 2018
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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  • Marissa Korbel
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Emboldened to Ask: A Conversation with Natalie Singer

  • Marissa Korbel
  • August 10, 2018
Natalie Singer discusses her debut memoir, CALIFORNIA CALLING.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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The Thread: American Garbage

  • Marissa Korbel
  • July 17, 2018
The molecules are valuable even if the plastic we see is not.
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A Community of the People: Tommy Orange’s There There

  • Alex Cavanaugh
  • June 27, 2018
THERE THERE does not settle, it unsettles.
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The Abattoir

  • Lisa Lee Herrick
  • May 29, 2018
This is what my mother doesn’t want me to see: the death rattle in a forbidden room. This is what she doesn’t want me to know: how one life is sacrificed for another to live.
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  • Deesha Philyaw
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Bethany C. Morrow

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • May 16, 2018
Bethany C. Morrow discusses her debut novel, MEM, how it felt to read Toni Morrison for the first time, and her hope for Black girl readers.
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To Choose Music: Aja Gabel’s The Ensemble

  • Tajja Isen
  • May 9, 2018
The Ensemble offers its readers the chance to breathe the rarefied air of an elite pursuit.
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The Girl Next Door: Pot Docs and Loss on the California Coast

  • Andrew Kane
  • April 19, 2018
[A]s with any documentary, every one of our stories eventually becomes a ghost story. On a long enough timeline, that is.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #129: L.A. Johnson

  • Katherine Gibbel
  • March 29, 2018
"Right now California is burning and yet there’s snow on mountains that I can also see from my window."
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Moving Targets

  • Allie Marini
  • March 20, 2018
Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
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  • Allyson McCabe
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Victoria Ruiz’s Grandma’s Grocery Board

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • March 15, 2018
I’m not a trained musician, but my grandma helped me to become fearless...
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Something Bigger and of Greater Value: Talking with Bruce Cockburn

  • M.D. Dunn
  • February 14, 2018
Canadian musician Bruce Cockburn discusses his new album, Bone on Bone, songwriting, and the benefits of not selling out.
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