This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreHadley Freeman discusses her new memoir, HOUSE OF GLASS.
...moreMusic was noise, and noise was music, and George Antheil was on his way.
...moreI wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
...moreThis food as love repairs, protects, and grows the heart and soul.
...moreEach poem opens a window into cities and vocabularies of exile.
...more…women’s writing has often been deemed too dark, too sultry, too frigid, too hysterical.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreI sing it to feel the darkness of it. I demand access.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreJérôme Ruillier discusses his graphic novel, THE STRANGE (L’ETRANGE).
...morePoet and author Nanos Valaoritis discusses the political and cultural situation in Greece today.
...moreWhen the physical therapist explains the electric dildo she holds in her hand will reset the nerve endings in my vagina so I won’t need to pee every hour, I say, “Get it in me and let’s go.”
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreA Kansas bookstore has sold a lot more than books to survive its 125 years. A French bookseller has turned a tiny house into a tiny bookstore and plans to travel the country selling books.
...moreChen Chen discusses his new collection When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, playing the game white supremacy has set up, and if God is trying and failing to be a cool dad.
...more“No one knows how to handle it,” I tell her, but I can see she’s angry and I’m speaking into the wind.
...moreDanielle Trussoni discusses her new memoir, The Fortress, black magic, the cult of marriage, and the dark side of storytelling.
...moreAllyson McCabe talks with Leah Hayes, acclaimed illustrator, graphic novelist, songwriter, and musician.
...moreHer face lit up, and I checked to make sure the man’s scowl had returned. It wasn’t enough for me that heaven should exist for the wife; her husband had to end up in hell.
...moreI felt unhinged in my moments of isolation, and frustrated in my muteness.
...moreLove. Because our collective survival depends on it.
...moreClarence Major discusses his new collection Chicago Heat and Other Stories, the artist’s role in politics, Donald Trump and race relations, and Paris in the good old days.
...moreTo me, writing a book is also creating a game for both myself and the reader. Over at the Believer Logger, Natasha Boas talks to Julia Deck, author of Viviane Élisabeth Fauville, about unreliable narrators, conciseness, titles, Paris, French publishing houses, and mysteries.
...moreDonald Ray Pollock has been steadily serving up plates of mild horror since his first book of short stories, Knockemstiff, appeared in 2008. Pollock followed the explosion of Knockemstiff with The Devil All the Time, in 2011, his first novel, which also bordered on the genre of mystery, again with generous servings of darkness. His […]
...moreIt isn’t much of a contest to say that Julie Coyne is the single most inspirational human being I have ever met. And I am here—in Xela—in part because I could use a little inspiration.
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