This Week in Indie Bookstores
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...moreFor what, after all, is more monstrous than a woman who wants?
...moreRachel Vorona Cote shares a reading list to celebrate TOO MUCH.
...moreRandon Billings Noble shares a reading list to celebrate BE WITH ME ALWAYS.
...moreElizabeth Geoghegan discusses her debut story collection, EIGHTBALL.
...moreBut then, full of longing to be someone other than I was, his work seemed perfect.
...moreValeria Luiselli discusses her new novel, LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE.
...moreChew-Bose approaches the word essay less as a noun and more as a verb.
...moreClarissa Dalloway, whose art form is social life, steps outside on a June day…
...moreLeah Kaminsky’s debut novel, The Waiting Room, depicts one fateful day in the life of an Australian doctor and mother, Dina, living in Haifa, Israel. Dina is trying to maintain normalcy as she goes about her work as a family doctor, cares for her son, and fights to preserve her faltering relationship with her husband, […]
...moreThere’s a new short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the world this week, and it’s a Mrs. Dalloway-style imagination of a day in the life of Melania Trump as she plans a dinner party. The story, titled “The Arrangements,” is the New York Times Book Review’s first-ever commissioned piece of fiction (to be followed, […]
...moreLynn Steger Strong discusses her debut novel Hold Still, the influence of Virginia Woolf, unconditional love, and exit strategies.
...moreJanuary 25 marked Virginia Woolf’s 134th birthday. Rachel Vorona Cote has this remembrance for Hazlitt: If we regard ourselves as the protagonists of our own lives, then we must, to live empathically, remember that we are not singular in our possession of an inner life. We are all of us contradictory composites, uneasily reconciling relics of our […]
...moreDepression has a peculiar texture: sometimes, rather than sadness, it is an emotional flatline; the sneaking suspicion that you are play-acting.
...moreIf you’ve grown up on canonical realist fiction, it can take a while to get used to the taste of experimental literature. But LitReactor’s Cath Murphy, after enduring slander against her adventurous side no less vicious than “Cath never likes anything experimental,” has compiled a list of books that take death-defying risks with form and […]
...moreSome writers are almost as famous for their raucous boozing as they are for their prose. You could fill a book with tales of literary parties—in fact, professional party planner Suzette Field did just that. The book is called A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Literature, and she’s expounded on a few of those […]
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