This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...more“I’m interested in beautiful events that are wrong.”
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreMary Miller discusses her new novel, BILOXI.
...moreChanelle Benz discusses her debut novel, THE GONE DEAD.
...moreNatasha Trethewey discusses her new collection, MONUMENT: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED.
...more“Honestly, I couldn’t write a non-transgressive woman if I tried.”
...moreKiese Laymon discusses his new memoir, HEAVY.
...more“Admitting a love or joy, or yes, wonder for the natural world is, especially as a woman of color, one of the most vulnerable things we can do.”
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreCapturing the Delta in harrowing detail, Ward takes readers on a journey from her own home of the Gulf Coast to the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
...moreHis goal was to erase me.
...moreAlice Anderson on her memoir, Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away, drag, and motherhood.
...moreA weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreWe can’t hide from our history and we can’t pass it on to future generations.
...moreJacqueline Woodson discusses her latest novel Another Brooklyn, the little deaths of lost friendships, and her work with children across the country as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate.
...moreMy family was always political, but I have a love/hate relationship with politics. Today, I can feel the country swinging towards madness. And make no mistake, a country can go mad. It is familiar territory, exciting and threatening, seductive and fearful. It feels good; it does NOT feel good. Or, if I may coin a […]
...moreEighty years ago, Wash Jones appeared as a minor character in William Faulkner’s masterpiece on American identity and self-invention, Absalom, Absalom! From a craft perspective Jones was put in for a purpose: to demonstrate the role that white working-class men played in maintaining white supremacy among the wealthiest people in America before the Civil War, […]
...moreIn her voice, I am held, cradled even. I am equal parts longing and hope. I am home.
...moreThis week, your Storming Bohemian has moved to a new house. Again. And so some reflections: There is much to be said for stability, I know. The steady quiet observation of the likes of Annie Dillard or Henry Thoreau evokes my admiration. I am even an oblate of a Benedictine monastery. I know monks who […]
...moreThis week, Guernica has a new story from author and veteran Odie Lindsey, whose debut story collection about soldiers coming home from war, We Come to Our Senses, will be published by W.W. Norton later this month. Included in the collection, “Bird (on back)” picks up in the middle of a disintegrating relationship between an […]
...moreGarrard Conley, author of the new memoir Boy Erased, discusses growing up in the deep South, mothers, writing for change, and political delusions.
...moreMy responsibility is to not be negligent and cause unnecessary harm. To a listener or reader. My allegiance is only to truth.
...moreThere are so many spaces in this country where I feel unsafe particularly because of my body.
...moreThe South is my favorite cousin.
...moreOver at The Toast, Rebecca Turkewitz writes about the intersections between literary geography and the real, from Joyce’s Dublin and Tolkien’s Middle Europe to Faulkner’s Mississippi and Munro’s Ontario—how we explore these places by walking through pages, and how they map to our homes and street corners.
...moreRichard Grant discusses how his time living in Mississippi provided him with a more full understanding of William Faulkner’s language. Despite studying Faulkner at school in England, Grant felt that it wasn’t until he moved that he was able to totally appreciate Faulkner’s work: To sit on the old porch reading Mr. Bill, with a […]
...moreAmerica is a beautiful country and it was beautiful before we got here. I’m not sure yet if we, the ancestral echo of colonizers, are a beautiful people. I often have doubts.
...moreThe story goes, if you can dehumanize a population with a stereotype, there’s no need to share their fate.
...moreNovelist Jamie Kornegay talks about his debut, Soil, life in Mississippi, writing humor effectively, and the geography of isolation.
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