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!
...moreChloe N. Clark discusses her debut story collection, COLLECTIVE GRAVITIES.
...moreI still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.
...moreZaina Arafat discusses her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH.
...moreNick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.
...moreMalcolm Tariq discusses his debut collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreLeslie Jamison interviews her mentor, Elizabeth McCracken.
...moreLooking back, it feels like I knew.
...moreMalinda McCollum discusses her debut story collection, THE SURPRISING PLACE.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...morePoet Marvin Bell discusses his now-famous love poem, “To Dorothy,” and the woman who inspired it.
...moreAnd the trees—each positioned in corner windows in the front of the house—they will be the talk of the neighborhood. This is how a house becomes a home.
...moreConfession: I’m a Hindu who loves Christmas.
...moreIt makes sense to me that Johnny Appleseed, a man, would travel God’s earth spreading his profligate seed. And then women are doomed to their lives trying to make that seed into something useful.
...moreDavid Biespiel discusses his new book, The Education of a Young Poet, being comfortable in uncertainty, and extending moments in writing.
...moreI start talking late, making word-sounds with my throat long before I open my mouth. When my lips and tongue begin to unfreeze, the progression of brain cancer locks my grandfather’s jaw in place.
...moreAmerican writers have a long, distinguished history of calling out injustice.
...moreThe Guardian looks at how an Australian feminist bookstore took on MRA trolls. Two Dollar Radio, a Columbus-based independent publisher, plans to open a bookstore. A community bookstore in Amman, Jordan that charged a pay-what-you-can fee for books nearly went bankrupt, but was saved by crowdfunding from around the world.
...moreNikki Wallschlaeger discusses her new collection Crawlspace, why she chose to work with the sonnet form, and how segregation in American never ended.
...moreIn April, the Mystery Writers of America named Max Allan Collins a Grand Master, the organization’s peer-voted lifetime achievement award. Collins has had a prolific and often eclectic career. The Iowa Writers Workshop graduate has written more than one hundred books, has had a long career as a comics writer including, most famously, the Road to […]
...moreShadowbahn […] is among the most unusual, and most extreme, in a literary career that has often been marked by its unpredictability.
...moreAs Barnes & Noble prepares to leave Bronx, New York, an independent store is already being planned by the winner of New York Public Library’s New York StartUP! Business Competition. Only Prime Members receive Amazon’s insane discounts in the store’s physical locations. An upstate New York bookstore wins its battle to display anti-Trump signage. An […]
...moreBrian Booker discusses his debut collection Are You Here For What I’m Here For?, giving characters strange and unusual names, and sleeping sickness.
...moreIn my desperate attempts to keep my secret I learned to shut everyone out, to become as closed as a fist.
...moreBlair Braverman discusses her latest book, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North, gendered travel narratives, and the pressure to write about personal trauma.
...moreIt was as if he understood that the authentic must begin in the voice. And through the texture of the voice—its moral and psychological claims—sensory details emerge with absolute authority.
...moreTimes like those lead you to believe that writing is, before it’s anything else, about simply getting it straight.
...moreI’m just back from Iowa, writing about the Democratic Caucus for Salon. You know what will make you think about citizenry? Watching hundreds of working-class union members standing in the harsh wind and freezing rain waiting to get in to a Hillary Clinton rally in an overheated high school gym in Cedar Rapids. Watching them […]
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