This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Posts Tagged: Mumbai
This Week In Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Comb or Brush? An Immigrant’s Knotty Dilemma
I was curious. What was the origin of the comb versus brush divide?
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Always the Story First: A Conversation with Jenny Bhatt
Jenny Bhatt discusses her debut story collection, EACH OF US KILLERS.
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Flowers Grow in Sh*t: Talking with Sohaila Abdulali
Sohaila Abdulali discusses her new book, WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RAPE.
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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TORCH: The American Girl at the Temple
[T]o be a tourist in a foreign country is very different than being a tourist in a foreign country where you are expected to feel you have returned home.
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Writing Romance: The Rumpus Interview with Sonali Dev
Sonali Dev talks about her latest novel, A Change of Heart, the romance genre, writing non-white characters, and the parallels between writing and architectural design.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Elkin
Writer and academic Lauren Elkin discusses her latest book Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, the freedoms and constraints of urban space for women, and the power of first person.
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Cooked: The Story of Everything
Because Cooked samples from all of its predecessors in style and topic, it becomes a show that can’t be pigeonholed into the tired and dry mechanisms of foodie-media.
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Dan Dalton over at BuzzFeed sleeps in the Airbnb bookshop. Britain’s Waterstones is giving up on ebooks and outsourcing digital titles to the Japanese service Kobo. A store in Mumbai Central Station in India has been going strong for more than 135 years.
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A huge new bookstore in the heart of Mexico’s drug cartel region hopes to combat ‘narco culture’ by offering an alternative, including classes for children and adults. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore in Boulder, Colorado has plans to move to a larger location. Mumbai, India, has seen the rise of new bookstores—but many are unique passion projects […]
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Rubbish and Blazing Light
Set in contemporary Mumbai, Aravind Adiga’s second novel, Last Man in Tower, focuses on Yogesh Murthy, the man who wants nothing, and the community who doesn’t understand him.
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The Rumpus Interview With Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan discusses Family Planning, Indian literature, and the recent attacks in Mumbai.
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