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That cafe smelled like fresh-baked bread and cookies, and the baristas were all women with warm, soft hands who called everyone — the Senator, the mothers, the babies, the businessmen — Honey. So many baristas would have called you Honey, David. And swayed along with you when they played Perfume Genius during the slow hours. The day after someone […]
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If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
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Is it not in the warm chambers of the past, after all, that we are immortal, invincible, and alive?
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Adrienne Christian discusses her newest collection, WORN.
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There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
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There was a right way and a wrong way to do things, and those shoes were wrong.
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Rebecca McClanahan discusses her new memoir-in-essays, IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY.
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Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
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More than a longing for an origin story, Hernandez Castillo’s memoir is an attempt to bring the invisible to light.
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Luckily, Wiener offers us more than eloquent masochism.
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What my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.
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Ramiza Shamoun Koya discusses her debut novel, THE ROYAL ABDULS.
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We met in a dorm hallway, half past midnight.
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“Ty is, you know, tied in a knot. On a very old shoe.”
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But then, full of longing to be someone other than I was, his work seemed perfect.
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How do you go on when the losses seem unbearable?
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Ariel Francisco discusses his forthcoming second collection, A SINKING SHIP IS STILL A SHIP.
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Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Reema’s book teems with gorgeous metaphors.
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Rabeah Ghaffari discusses her debut novel, TO KEEP THE SUN ALIVE.
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Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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If you are a New York resident, vote today!
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Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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[S]quint at the story one way and you see a woman’s life hollowed out by the very privilege that allows her to coast; look at it from another angle and you see a regular person living a multi-faceted, flawed life.
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All around me were strangers. All around me were friends. A dark glittering sea of fists. What a terrible, wonderful thing, to be welcomed into this fellowship at last.
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Without men around to impress, I discovered my own taste—what desire meant beyond the desire to be desirable.
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Allyson McCabe talks with Anthony DeCurtis, author and music journalist, about the art of the interview, his friendship with Lou Reed, and teaching in the digital age.
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