This Week in Indie Bookstores
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...more“Was it vodka?” Mama said. Her voice had cracks in it. Why ask? She knew.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreVivian Gibson discusses her debut memoir, THE LAST CHILDREN OF MILL CREEK.
...moreRon A. Austin discusses his debut novel, AVERY COLT IS A THIEF, A SNAKE, A LIAR.
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreIndie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreEileen G’Sell discusses her debut collection, Life After Rugby, how and why she chose her book’s title, and challenging gender categories.
...moreLiterary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
...moreSunday 7/30: Michael Brownlee will be presenting his book The Local Food Revolution: How Humanity Will Feed Itself in Uncertain Times. Common Good Books, 1 p.m., free. Monday 7/31: Tune up your guitar, warm up your voice, and check out Day Block Brewing’s weekly Open Mic night! Open Mic is hosted in the dining area and is […]
...moreFor a moment, seeing the small figures walking before the elk makes me think that white people know the Great Elk too.
...moreTonight my loneliness is infinite and I could eat dinner or dance with my limbs wild because there is no gravity keeping me grounded.
...moreI’ve begun to question my place in society, my place in a country that wants me to remain silent. Mostly, I question my choice to remain silent.
...moreIf I was a ghost, I wouldn’t want nothing to do with the world that killed me.
...moreShe pauses and says it again. “In my head, I live in my dollhouse.”
...moreEarly in August, unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. While protests broke out in the weeks following Brown’s death, Wilson remained free, awaiting a grand jury indictment. Grand juries decide whether or not a crime has been committed, not […]
...more…if you want more, the music can meet you where you are. It can instruct on the meaning of music itself, on its history, on its cross-cultural possibilities.
...moreOn Saturday, August 9, an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a police officer. The boy was on his way home from a convenience store in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, where about two-thirds of the residents are black. With so few of the facts confirmed, many of the […]
...moreTom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator who’s also been a longtime member of the NY Comics Symposium.
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