What to Read When You Want to Slip Away
A list from YZ Chin of works in translation
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Posts Tagged: Malaysia
My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
It’s true that when I speak of machines I also mean dimensions.
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This Week In Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week In Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Brink of Unbearable: Careen by Grace Shuyi Liew
[I]t is as if I am learning a new language with each poem.
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Four Courses
I eat, and eat, and eat, and mourn.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Water Goddess
To exist solely now on land is to live always waiting to reenter the water—to feel soothed even by the sound of it falling. To live a life on land is to feel the loss of our former lives within our very faces.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Weyes Blood’s Mysterious Kris
To this day no one really knows where my kris came from or whether or not it’s a significant part of my family history, if it’s a random object or an heirloom with an untold story.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Dipika Mukherjee
Telling a human story, with individuals experiencing the effects of an actual political issue—that’s my part in shaking the ground.
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Multitudes: What Is a Haunting?
What cannot be forgotten/cannot be remembered?
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Anne Raeff
Married authors Anne Raeff and Lori Ostlund, both winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, discuss their craft, their process, and the way they negotiate the give and take involved in sharing a vocation.
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Segwick, Maine claims to be home to the world’s smallest bookstore. Pushcart Press Bookstore resides in a 9′ x 12′ building selling used books and Pushcart Press titles. Australia’s capitol city is not known as a cultural center, but that might change for Canberra with the opening of Muse, a combination wine bar and bookstore. […]
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