This Week In Indie Bookstores
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...moreLiz Prato discusses her essay collection VOLCANOES, PALM TREES, AND PRIVILEGE.
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...moreI’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
...moreHow did this Hawaiian chocolate reach the middle of the cornfields?
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...moreT Kira Madden discusses her debut memoir, LONG LIVE THE TRIBE OF FATHERLESS GIRLS.
...moreThe psyche is haunted by its own swollen intimacies, Merwin’s poems remind us.
...moreRahna Reiko Rizzuto discusses her newest book, SHADOW CHILD.
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...moreI wanted to talk to someone who might have heard the last animal at the end of its species’ five-million-year run on earth.
...moreIs there a relationship between the violence that came through me, and the violence that came at me?
...moreRajiv Mohabir discusses his second collection, The Cowherd’s Son, his work as a translator, and resisting erasure in a racist America.
...moreIndie bookstores news from across the country and around the world!
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...moreJeff Chang discusses his latest book, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, his work in hip-hip journalism, and the beauty and humanity of political protest.
...morePoetic contemplation typically is a means to container experience, like a still life.
...moreLife’s inequities can be cruel, but in the end we are all part of our communities; suffering though we may be, we are not alone.
...morePast the break lies motherhood as I understand it: the rawest life that lifts and falls and crashes against beauty, and the eternal potential for heartbreak.
...moreSurvival is not always cute, politically responsible, mature, or sober. Survival is ramshackle, as is tolerance.
...moreWhat would I even say if I was to answer that long-awaited phone call? Would the light of forgiveness carry me fearlessly into tomorrow?
...moreFor The Stranger, Rich Smith reviews Even Though the Whole World Is Burning, the film about poet W.S. Merwin and his life as a conservationist in Hawaii: The film glorifies Merwin as a giver of life, a distinction that invites an eye roll. But looking at the evidence the film presents, it’s hard to call foul. […]
...moreWe will never be an exclamation point, an ellipses, a question mark. We must all leave with this: a period—solid, and utterly irrefutable.
...moreLast summer, I nearly killed my son. It was an accident, but the guilt I live with belongs to those whose malicious deeds are intentional.
...moreI think of a story I might write: about a daughter who loses her father to the sea. She grows progressively more melancholy; her dreams haunted by man-o-war, stingray, and poisonous rockfish.
...moreSign languages are just as rich as spoken languages, with their own grammar, slang, and regional peculiarities. American Sign Language is distinct from French and Kenyan and Peruvian Sign Languages—and, as was recently discovered, from Hawaiian Sign Language. Linda Lambrecht, a sign-language instructor at Kapiolani Community College who is fluent in both ASL and its […]
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