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Home-Turned-Library Brings Japanese Literature to Community

For the Los Angeles Times, Kelly Corrigan spoke with Mitsuko Roberts of Glendale, California about The Okanoue Library, a collection of over 700 works of Japanese literature, film, and other media donated…

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Chicago bookstores are worried about the arrival of a physical Amazon store. One bookstore is using clickbait tactics on social media to trick people into reading more books. Some people…

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

The World Bank houses a bookstore. Unfortunately, it’s closing. Harry Potter is causing a legal dispute between two bookstores in the Philippines, with one store claiming a legal monopoly over the book.…

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

The world’s oldest gay bookstore is getting a new lease on life by adding a cafe and liquor license. Bookstores in small Japanese towns are closing down. In an age…

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: There Are No Good Muslims

I say I am Catholic because it is easier than telling the truth.

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No Dancing, Please

FACT‘s profile of rising electronic musician Seiho Hayakawa serves as an introduction to the unique challenges the underground music scene in Japan has had to contend with over the years: While the internet…

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A Japanese Heart

If you follow the script, people will judge you as having a genuine Japanese heart.

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This Week in Indie Boosktores

A charity bookstore in Swansea, Wales, had so many copies of Fifty Shades of Gray that the store built a fort. A Georgia store needs a superhero after more than…

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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Desiree Cooper

Desiree Cooper discusses her debut collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, what mother-writers need, and why motherhood is the only story she’s ever told.

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The Slow Fall of the Hot Heroine

If nothing else, it’s the opinion of other women that encroaches on mine. Resemblances spark my joy; differences become character flaws.

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I Hear the Place That Can’t Be Named

It is remembering and loving anyway—not forgetting—that binds us even if the recollections are absurd, undignified, cruel, or humiliating.

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The Rumpus Interview with Sanae Ishida

Sanae Ishida discusses her debut children's book, Little Kunoichi, The Ninja Girl, embracing her creativity after years in the corporate world, and finding inspiration in her young daughter.

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