This Week in Indie Bookstores
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...moreSecrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
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...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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...more[T]he thing about Gary was that he could believe what he needed to believed when he needed to believe it. So, technically, he never lied.
...moreEmma Straub has been named Independent Bookstore Day ambassador. Author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers, Straub worked at the recently closed BookCourt in Brooklyn, and plans to open her own store nearby. Omnivore Books, a San Francisco cookbook store, is resisting Trump’s ban on Muslims by celebrating cookbooks from the banned regions.
...moreThe project to bring a second bookstore to Queens, New York has met its Kickstarter goal. The borough of 2.2 million people was down to a single bookstore, Astoria Bookshop, after a Forest Hills Barnes & Noble closed. Bangkok has a thriving bookstore scene. Amazon targets New York City’s literary scene with a brick and […]
...moreDesiree 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.
...moreThe best thing about living in a foreign country where I don’t speak the language is the ability to slide into solitude wherever I am.
...moreI have spent my twenties texturing this city with memory; I have made it a vessel for my pleasures and my pain.
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