Grab Hold the Rope of Language: A Conversation with Jan Beatty
Jan Beatty discusses her new memoir, AMERICAN BASTARD.
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This Week In Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Complicating Unhelpful Binaries: Talking with Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lauren J. Sharkey
Lauren J. Sharkey discusses her debut novel, INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER.
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Everyone You Meet Is God in Drag
If the art of drag has taught me one thing, it’s that I am not unique.
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Voices on Addiction: Katie Calls
I want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
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The Proustian Wilbur Bud
We all will have lost something in the forgetting.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Factory Is Anointed”
He wonders at how fast it all changed.
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Off the Grid: Talking with Jamie Beth Cohen
Jamie Beth Cohen discusses her debut novel, WASTED PRETTY.
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ENOUGH: Crime and Composure
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Strip District Meats
Already, at nine, my son knows that eating makes me happy.
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Samuel Barlow
Writer Samuel Barlow talks with Cullen Thomas in the prison where he was held for half a century.
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Voices on Addiction: Jokerman
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
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The Image-Maker: A Conversation with Sam Brown
Artist Sam Brown discusses the highs and lows of big artistic dreams.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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I Assimilate into Mere Bubbles
It’s subtle, the violence of language.
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The Thread: Outside the Gaze
This is the story I needed as a young girl; this is the story we all need.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week In Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Any Day Now: A Conversation with Anjali Sachdeva
Anjali Sachdeva discusses her debut story collection, ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD.
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Coming Clean
Intellectually, I know Gracie’s mom loves her and needs help. In practice, I just want my daughter safe.
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Don’t Think Twice and the Power of Improvising through the Unknown
It’s a little extraordinary when you realize that you’re the one getting in your own way.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Abeer Hoque
Abeer Hoque talks about coming of age in the predominantly white suburbs of Pittsburgh, rewriting her memoir manuscript ten times, and looking for poetry in prose.
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Stocking backlist titles helps some bookstores differentiate themselves. Harvard Book Store has set up a section commemorating the Bowling Green Massacre. A Florida bookstore has become a source of food for those in need, serving as a Little Free Pantry.
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Who Run the World?
Look through these images, and feel proud. Feel inspired. Know that yes, the battle is uphill and will be hard-won, but it will be won.
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Although Brooklyn stalwart BookCourt is sadly set to close at the end of the year, Modern Lovers author and former BookCourt employee Emma Straub plans to open a new shop in the the neighborhood. Books Are Magic, as the shop will be called, will be 1,500 square feet and hopes to open by April. Straub wouldn’t be […]
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Rapture of the Deep
The point is not to lose yourself to that landscape, and to not become fearful of new landscapes.
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The Oakmont Carnegie Library outside of Pittsburgh hosted Booktoberfest, a celebration of books and Bavarian beer. The event not only merged the two great pastimes of reading and drinking, but also helped raise $9,000 for the library.
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