Diaspora, Reconstructed
Some people say dreams are a glimpse into an alternate reality.
...moreSome people say dreams are a glimpse into an alternate reality.
...morePoet Linda Bierds discusses her newest collection, THE HARDY TREE.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreWondering is exhausting.
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...moreThrough drill, artists have a means of exploring and challenging the political marginalization of their voices.
...moreI wasn’t into girl stuff, but I loved James Bond!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreJenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
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...moreI finish counting and start over, trying, always, to solve the equation of myself.
...moreI’ve worked through the pain, and made something useful and creative out of it.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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...moreGuitar music is alive and well in South London.
...moreLucy Hughes-Hallett discusses her debut novel, Peculiar Ground, out today from HarperCollins.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreA weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreKaitlyn Tiffany tried to buy a Father’s Day gift at Amazon’s new real world store. A rare bookstore in London, known as a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, has found a new home in a stunning townhouse. Despite a huge number of new books and voracious readers, Japan’s bookstores keep closing.
...moreThe pressure to prove ourselves can have a distorting effect, causing us to doubt our instincts in favor of following others we perceive to be experts or “genuine.”
...moreI left the car by the roadside and ran up the slope, in tears now, reaching the picnic tables and swings and, as bright and vivid as in my dreams, my purple-shaped climbing frame, exactly as I remembered it.
...moreDavid Sedaris discusses his new collection of diary entries, Theft By Finding, his love for book signings, and his inevitable return to IHOP.
...moreIn Chicago, Aimee Levitt wonders how many bookstores she can visit in a single day to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day. Meanwhile, in Seattle, Moira Macdonald explains how she planned on maximizing the number of stores she visited.
...moreIn 2012, after leaving their homeland Venezuela for New York City and then London, Alejandro Ghersi began playing music under the stage name of Arca. A former child star, Ghersi has collaborated with Bjork and Kanye West. Now, the twenty-six-year-old producer and composer is releasing their third, eponymous album—the first via XL Recordings, and the […]
...moreWriter and academic Lauren Elkin discusses her latest book Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, the freedoms and constraints of urban space for women, and the power of first person.
...moreTake a musician born in London, raised for a time in Sudan, and relocated to Ohio at five years old. Have his parents make him listen to Bob Marley, and let him eventually discover great Afrobeat like William Onyeabor, and Pharoah Sanders’s legendary saxophone. Here is how we get to Ahmed Gallab, the mastermind behind Sinkane, who […]
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