This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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...moreAzareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses her new novel, SAVAGE TONGUES.
...moreThe ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
...moreAlex Poppe discusses her new novel, MOXIE.
...moreDunya Mikhail discusses her new collection, IN HER FEMININE SIGN.
...moreAlways, when my father spoke to me in words I could not understand, my guilt spoke back.
...moreBarbara Berman reviews work by Dunya Mikhail, Thomas Merton, and Robert Lax.
...moreAn enjoyable and thought-provoking read, Moon Brow trades on its striking and unusual formal features to allude to the complexities and consequences of war.
...moreSpeech seemed like an irreverence, as if the empty schools were tombs.
...moreWhen I came home from war, I felt relief. Now that I’m home after childbirth, I’m still waiting for relief. War ends. Motherhood does not.
...more“All art is somehow a kind of witness, whether to beauty or to anything else.”
...moreKashan stares out at the crowd. “Saddam was hard. This is also hard.”
...moreA weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreThat a bumbling demagogue would be able to take this institutional racism and weaponize it is, then, not really a surprise. The seeds for this hate were planted a long time ago.
...moreAs Sentilles makes clear, she is against the wars the United States is currently involved in, and war in general, but she’s critical of what that means.
...moreThere is no singular Muslim story, no definitive identity for the entire religion. […] Here, four women discuss what it’s like to be a minority in America in 2017, post-9/11 and post-Trump.
...more“Wherever you are on earth, you are safe,” writes Richard Hugo. Really?
...moreA bookstore on wheels is headed to Baghdad, Iraq, once the literary capital of the Middle East until it was invaded by American forces. Not content with celebrating Independent Bookstore Day along with the rest of the country, two stores plant to launch Texas Bookstore Day in August. San Francisco’s Mission Bookstore is planning to […]
...moreIn Akkad’s dystopian scenario, the US faces a resurgent Mexico and a vast and newly powerful North African-Arabian empire.
...moreThrough incisive and uncompromising verse, Reyes unearths the hypocrisy at work in exalted American democracy…
...moreOur bodies will not be your banners. We are not yours to use and abuse, we are not yours to dupe. We see through your words, and we see your violence.
...moreIn the face of colossal and destructive political lies, we need a more nuanced understanding of the world than simply truth versus lie.
...moreSchultz enables readers to see past their own perspectives and empathize with both the Afghan child and the American war widow.
...moreThis is the hearth. This is the knot. This is home. The woman bent over a sewing machine, the steady hum of the motor, the needle rising and sinking.
...moreRion Amilcar Scott discusses his story collection Insurrections, father relationships, hip-hop, knowing when to abandon a project, and choosing not to workshop certain stories.
...moreYou can call a soldier a hero or a murderer. You can call them a warrior or a monster. You can call them savior or Satan. You could call them Brother. Maybe even mother.
...moreWelcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and wisdom, and they are an important part of our toolkit in fighting for social justice. If we’re going to move our national narrative away from […]
...moreWhat is the distance between sympathy and action? How do we travel from one to the other?
...moreGerman children’s book author Thomas Mac Pfeifer spent over a year interviewing children who had migrated to Germany from war-stricken countries such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan with the purpose of hearing and collecting their favorite bedtime stories into one book, Ein Stern, der in dein Fenster schaut (“A star that peers through your window”). […]
...moreSome books take such a mammoth effort to produce that it’s hard to want to be critical of them. Rolling Blackouts is one of those books. The nearly 300 pages of delicately crafted, watercolored panels make evident that Sarah Glidden is a workhorse of a talent. The dialogue—which is mostly transcribed from conversations—is incredibly natural and nuanced; […]
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