Voices on Addiction: Heroin/e
She introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
...moreShe introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
...moreKelly Harris-DeBerry discusses her debut poetry collection, FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME.
...moreAlison Stine discusses her new novel, ROAD OUT OF WINTER.
...moreCarter Sickels discusses his new novel, THE PRETTIEST STAR.
...moreMarianne Chan discusses her debut poetry collection, ALL HEATHENS.
...moreI searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
...moreIf the art of drag has taught me one thing, it’s that I am not unique.
...moreElizabeth Lindsey Rogers discusses her new collection, THE TILT TORN AWAY FROM THE SEASONS.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...morePart of looking closer is seeing what is hard to face, and part of having courage is addressing what seems futile.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreAnd the trees—each positioned in corner windows in the front of the house—they will be the talk of the neighborhood. This is how a house becomes a home.
...moreHanif Abdurraqib discusses They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, honoring survival by showing up, and refusing to be governed by genre.
...moreOne thing I was taught about travel—because my father is a black man born in Alabama in 1950—was that there are safe places for black people to go and places that aren’t as safe.
...moreMaggie Smith discusses her new collection Good Bones, how motherhood has changed her writing, and what it felt like to have a poem go viral.
...moreA weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreSridhar Pappu discusses his first book, The Year of the Pitcher, writing it over six years, and the roots of his baseball fandom.
...moreHarris thoughtfully examines what happens when privilege and lack of privilege are forced to coexist in the same neighborhood—and, occasionally, in the same apartment.
...moreJeff Wood discusses The Glacier, his genre-bending book combining novel, poetry, screenplay, and collage, how heritage has become a brand, and the American Midwest.
...moreThis Los Angeles bookstore is confronting censorship in Iran with a focus on books banned in the nation. Zhongshu Bookstore in China is designed to wow customers with its bold interior.
...moreLisa Factora-Borchers talks about being a Catholic feminist, writing across genres, and pushing back against a singular narrative about New York.
...moreAmazon’s revolutionary new way to sell books in a physical brick and mortar store, has opened in New York City. Everyone old is new again. Even chain bookstores, like the UK’s Waterstones, thrives because of booksellers’ personal touches, like book recommendations.
...moreAll those prank calls were partly a way of taking control of the unknown, the ambiguity of that space between “hello” and whatever comes next.
...morePoet Claudia Cortese talks about her new book Wasp Queen and Lucy, the rebellious 90s teen whose voice inspired the collection.
...moreLoganberry Books in Cleveland, Ohio is drawing attention to female authors by turning books by men around on the shelves, leaving the books pages out to hide the spine. A Pittsburgh bookstore is providing a home to books by writers in exile, drawing attention to the authors’ works. The collapse of the coloring book market is hurting […]
...moreTake a musician born in London, raised for a time in Sudan, and relocated to Ohio at five years old. Have his parents make him listen to Bob Marley, and let him eventually discover great Afrobeat like William Onyeabor, and Pharoah Sanders’s legendary saxophone. Here is how we get to Ahmed Gallab, the mastermind behind Sinkane, who […]
...moreI tried to forget again that I once meant to leave, that on a few occasions I had actually felt transported by love.
...moreJ.D. Vance talks about his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, the perils of upward mobility, and never forgetting where you come from.
...moreDonald Ray Pollock has been steadily serving up plates of mild horror since his first book of short stories, Knockemstiff, appeared in 2008. Pollock followed the explosion of Knockemstiff with The Devil All the Time, in 2011, his first novel, which also bordered on the genre of mystery, again with generous servings of darkness. His […]
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