I’m Cold, Please Touch Me: The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Sycamore wrote this book long before pandemic time, and yet it couldn’t have arrived at a better moment.
...moreSycamore wrote this book long before pandemic time, and yet it couldn’t have arrived at a better moment.
...moreThe collective reimagining in Seismic calls for literary revolution.
...moreMattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses her new book, THE FREEZER DOOR.
...moreKelly Harris-DeBerry discusses her debut poetry collection, FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME.
...moreIt doesn’t feel good, does it? I didn’t see it coming either.
...moreI’ve been everywhere, but I don’t belong anywhere.
...moreThe marijuana shop shimmers from the abyss, a glowing green jewelry box atop the hill.
...more“[I]t is an itch that needs to be scratched. To test. To push. To prove to myself.”
...moreJulian K. Jarboe discusses EVERYONE ON THE MOON IS ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL.
...moreFor many years, I tried to civilize myself.
...moreKate Wisel discusses her debut story collection, DRIVING IN CARS WITH HOMELESS MEN.
...moreAlex DiFrancesco discusses their new novel, ALL CITY.
...moret’ai freedom ford discusses her newest collection, & MORE BLACK.
...moreEzra Claytan Daniels discusses the new graphic novel BTTM FDRS.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreLilliam Rivera discusses her new novel, DEALING IN DREAMS.
...moreJosé Olivarez discusses his debut collection, CITIZEN ILLEGAL.
...moreAuthor and activist Sarah Schulman discusses her forthcoming novel, MAGGIE TERRY.
...moreTHERE THERE does not settle, it unsettles.
...moreRachel Lyon discusses her debut novel, Self-Portrait with Boy, artistic communities, the quotidian nature of the supernatural, and hyper-gentrification.
...moreNaima Coster discusses her debut novel, Halsey Street, getting pushback on her use of Spanish, and the importance of equity and inclusion in higher education.
...moreLilliam 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.
...moreHarris thoughtfully examines what happens when privilege and lack of privilege are forced to coexist in the same neighborhood—and, occasionally, in the same apartment.
...moreBrandon 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.
...moreOn 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 […]
...moreAdrian Matejka discusses his new collection Map to the Stars, writing about poverty in contemporary poetry, and how racism maintains its place in our society.
...moreEmily Raboteau discusses her essay, “Know Your Rights!” from the collection, The Fire This Time, what she loves about motherhood, and why it’s time for White America to get uncomfortable.
...moreJacqueline Woodson discusses her latest novel Another Brooklyn, the little deaths of lost friendships, and her work with children across the country as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate.
...moreJust announced today: beloved Brooklyn bookstore BookCourt is closing after 35 years in business. Independent booksellers were the focus of a panel at the Miami Book Fair—discussion focused on how big business was surprised that small business strategies could be useful in selling books. Kyoto, Japan is home to a bookstore hostel with eighteen bunks built into […]
...more[A]ll over town, pits in the ground stayed pits in the ground. Those cavities were my consolation. For the moment, we were all in the hole.
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