This Week In Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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...moreJonathan Parks-Ramage discusses his debut novel, YES, DADDY.
...more“Yes: in terms of an authorial presence, I tried to tread lightly.”
...moreLauren J. Sharkey discusses her debut novel, INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER.
...moreAbby Frucht discusses her first collection of poetry, MAIDS.
...moreNick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.
...moreJoel Mowdy discusses his debut story collection, FLOYD HARBOR.
...moreJason Allen discusses his debut novel, THE EAST END.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreAline Kominsky-Crumb discusses her graphic memoir, Love That Bunch, drawing cancer, inadequacies of early work, and her burial wishes.
...moreWhose lives are visible? Whose pain is just? Whose grief is vocal? Such inquiry is not rhetorical.
...moreActor and painter Burt Young talks filmmaking, art, and the years he spent living on a sixty-three-foot yacht.
...moreJessica Berger Gross discusses her new memoir, Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home, walking away from her parents age of twenty-eight, and the importance of boundaries.
...moreI didn’t want to be a ballerina. It didn’t even sound right. I wanted to be a gymnast. The word alone made me feel proud and stand a little straighter.
...moreRebecca Schiff discusses her debut collection The Bed That Moved, choosing narrators who share similarities with each other and with herself, and whether feminism and fiction-writing conflict.
...moreDeep Vellum Books is looking for a partner. The publisher runs a successful Dallas bookstore alongside the indie press, but owner Will Evans says running both is proving too much. Queens, New York still needs a second bookstore to serve the 2.3 million people. The Observer profiles the woman behind the effort. New York’s literary […]
...moreInternationally recognized percussionist, composer, sound designer, and audio archivist Tim Barnes talks with Allyson McCabe about how his musical career has developed and changed, and what he’s up to now.
...moreNight Work is a queer sonic fantasia soaked heavy in the 1980s.
...moreIndependent bookstores are thriving because many are adapting technology and learning how to better serve their local community. A stunning new bookstore has opened in eastern China with dazzling displays and whimsical architecture. Bookstores in Barcelona are adapting as Spain deals with a shrinking economy. The New Republic takes a look at how a bookstore […]
...moreAuthor Christopher Bollen talks about his sophomore novel, Orient, secrets and privacy, sexual orientation in fiction, and the lost art of the whodunit mystery.
...moreThe house appears to blend in with its landscape, almost disappear beside canopy trees until it’s in danger of becoming an afterthought. There is nothing particularly regal about it. It’s the type of place one of Fitzgerald’s characters would have driven by and forgotten about by the time his motorcar rounded the next bend, or […]
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