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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sarah Blake
Sarah Blake discusses her new collection, Let's Not Live on Earth, questions in poems, monsters, and the challenge of writing a dystopia.
Finding Freedom
We never want something more than when it has been taken away from us. The opposite of freedom is confinement.
Teaching a Robot to Love
Last year physicist Stephen Hawking suggested that advanced artificial intelligence, or AI, could lead to the end of humanity. How are scientists working on this issue? Teaching robots empathy with…
Morning Coffee
Stephen Hawking: galactic tagger. The long-list for the weirdest titled books of 2009 award (has been announced). NYRB essay on the history of Facebook. The Scentisizer! Prophetic pictures from 1905…