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Missing

  • Antonia Crane
  • June 1, 2016
I long to learn from my darkest teachers, feel the stab of their spectacular rejection. Perhaps I feel most alive when I’m hurting.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 24, 2016
A bookstore designed to feel like a spaceship has opened in Hangzhou, China. Romance-novel bookstore Ripped Bodice in Los Angeles has gotten a little funnier by adding live comedy shows.…
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The Rumpus Interview with Bernadette Murphy

  • Eileen Donohue
  • May 20, 2016
Bernadette Murphy on her forthcoming book, Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life, the challenges of selling a memoir, and life beyond "the suburban-wife-mother picture."
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 10, 2016
An Estonian bookstore is removing Russian propaganda from its shelves after a request from Ukraine. Check out these amazing bookstores from around the world. The Observer shares some photos of The…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 8, 2016
LAist takes readers inside Los Angeles’s iconic The Last Bookstore, a “sprawling temple” of books, and talks with owner Josh Spencer. A Hong Kong bookstore, one that hasn’t been closed…
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Sound & Vision: June Millington

  • Allyson McCabe
  • February 19, 2016
Allyson McCabe talks to June Millington of Fanny, the first all-female rock band to release an album on a major label.
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The Complicated “Riches” Of America

  • Katie O'Brien
  • February 12, 2016
In a nuanced essay at Vela Magazine, Anne P. Beatty discusses what her experiences teaching for the Peace Corps in Nepal and teaching at an impoverished school in LA taught…
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FUNNY WOMEN #135: Personal G”wow”th

  • Mieke Eerkens
  • February 9, 2016
As you forge ahead on the journey called elementary school, each of these areas will be instrumental in helping you rocket to prosperity or plummet to repugnant mediocrity.
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Plankton (A Body of Stars)

  • Charlotte O'Brien
  • February 5, 2016
Plankton either grows into something other than plankton—a strong swimming non-planktonic adult, like a crab or a fish, or it stays the same—forever drifting with the shifting tides.
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Moles and All

  • Shawna Kenney
  • January 4, 2016
Of the moments Lemmy and I shared, I have no proof, no hard evidence, no transcript. Our conversation is lost in cyberspace, one Tuesday afternoon easily evaporated.
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Shark’s Teeth

  • Casey Calvert
  • December 29, 2015
My kink used to be my Deepest Darkest secret, and now it is an integrated part of my everyday life.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • December 8, 2015
Bookstores in Mumbai, India are losing customers from institutional sales as large buyers turn directly to suppliers, and though 700 existing retailers exist in the city, the last few years…
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