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Love can feel muddled, vast, diffuse; so little to do with the singular volatility of a firework. I hunger for that kind of crystalline precision, though. That clarity. To scream myself across the sky just once—consuming everything in my wake—and then vanish from view.
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Meg Waite Clayton discusses her new novel, THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS.
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What makes a body violable? This jaw, a piece of evidence. This body, the remains of a life.
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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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It hadn’t felt like teasing. It felt the way it always did these days—that I had disappointed her.
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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You want to live by your ideals, but it’s hard to make them align with reality.
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Sejal Shah discusses her debut essay collection, THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE.
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Hadley Freeman discusses her new memoir, HOUSE OF GLASS.
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Music was noise, and noise was music, and George Antheil was on his way.
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I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
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This food as love repairs, protects, and grows the heart and soul.
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Each poem opens a window into cities and vocabularies of exile.
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Who is Adèle Robinson, really, and what is it, exactly, that happened to her?
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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We must find a way to keep the roots of love and justice strong.
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Rabeah Ghaffari discusses her debut novel, TO KEEP THE SUN ALIVE.
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Rebecca Makkai discusses her forthcoming third novel, The Great Believers, how she arrived at the book’s structure, and the story and its characters.
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If we really believe that love is important and necessary then where is it, especially when it comes to world politics and power?
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John Freeman discusses his debut collection of poetry, Maps, displacement, empathy, and trying to find a way forward in the nation and the world.
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Nathan Englander talks about his new novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, the experience of being interviewed, and why he believes books can save lives.
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…yet she did what she did, and in the process made the most successful album of her career.
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I am meditating. In a room in Rodeo, at the rickety old secretary/dresser I use as a desk. It is by a window. I look out at the roadway, and think I am glad to live at a crossroad. The house across the street is silver grey. By its front stoop is a tree all […]
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Chen Chen discusses his new collection When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, playing the game white supremacy has set up, and if God is trying and failing to be a cool dad.
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“No one knows how to handle it,” I tell her, but I can see she’s angry and I’m speaking into the wind.
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