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When I’m reading books that work within fantastic traditions, I find they’re able to hold more truths simultaneously and give me, as a reader, room to contemplate social justice and political issues and come to my own understanding of what’s what.
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin discusses his new story collection, THE ONES WHO DON’T SAY THEY LOVE YOU.
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Active Reception writes into the place where language fails.
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Nothing is not right. There is no indication there has ever been a house.
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Sycamore wrote this book long before pandemic time, and yet it couldn’t have arrived at a better moment.
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The collective reimagining in Seismic calls for literary revolution.
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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses her new book, THE FREEZER DOOR.
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Kelly Harris-DeBerry discusses her debut poetry collection, FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME.
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It doesn’t feel good, does it? I didn’t see it coming either.
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I’ve been everywhere, but I don’t belong anywhere.
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The marijuana shop shimmers from the abyss, a glowing green jewelry box atop the hill.
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“[I]t is an itch that needs to be scratched. To test. To push. To prove to myself.”
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Julian K. Jarboe discusses EVERYONE ON THE MOON IS ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL.
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For many years, I tried to civilize myself.
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Kate Wisel discusses her debut story collection, DRIVING IN CARS WITH HOMELESS MEN.
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Alex DiFrancesco discusses their new novel, ALL CITY.
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t’ai freedom ford discusses her newest collection, & MORE BLACK.
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Ezra Claytan Daniels discusses the new graphic novel BTTM FDRS.
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Lilliam Rivera discusses her new novel, DEALING IN DREAMS.
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José Olivarez discusses his debut collection, CITIZEN ILLEGAL.
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Author and activist Sarah Schulman discusses her forthcoming novel, MAGGIE TERRY.
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THERE THERE does not settle, it unsettles.
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Rachel Lyon discusses her debut novel, Self-Portrait with Boy, artistic communities, the quotidian nature of the supernatural, and hyper-gentrification.
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Naima Coster discusses her debut novel, Halsey Street, getting pushback on her use of Spanish, and the importance of equity and inclusion in higher education.
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Lilliam Rivera discusses her debut novel, The Education of Margot Sanchez, world-building, and her desire to see bookshelves filled with stories by people of color.
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Harris thoughtfully examines what happens when privilege and lack of privilege are forced to coexist in the same neighborhood—and, occasionally, in the same apartment.
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Brandon Harris discusses his memoir Making Rent in Bed-Stuy, gentrification in New York City and Brooklyn, the homogenization of American cities by corporate America, and whiteness of film culture.
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On Thursday night, May 25, an amazing event will take place outside a BART train station in the Mission District of San Francisco, as it has every Thursday night for the past fourteen years. If you were to pass by, you might not even notice what is taking place. The corner of 16th Street and Mission […]
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Adrian Matejka discusses his new collection Map to the Stars, writing about poverty in contemporary poetry, and how racism maintains its place in our society.
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