We Are More: Tehranto
I can’t recall a single time that my father has told me about his journey through the mountains . . . It was just something that I picked up, some truth that I have always carried.
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Posts Tagged: Toronto
Tongue Stuck
It was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.
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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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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Maria Cichosz
“Thinking about blurring those lines got me closer to the truth of the clichés.”
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This Week In Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Man in the Empty Suit: Talking with Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel discusses her new novel, THE GLASS HOTEL.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Less-Than-Linear: A Conversation with Georgia Webber
Georgia Webber discusses DUMB: LIVING WITHOUT A VOICE in an illustrated interview!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Inward Place: A Conversation with Claudia Dey
Claudia Dey discusses her first American release, HEARTBREAKER.
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Making Deliberate Choices: A Conversation with Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti discusses her new novel, MOTHERHOOD!
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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A weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world.
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A Kansas bookstore has sold a lot more than books to survive its 125 years. A French bookseller has turned a tiny house into a tiny bookstore and plans to travel the country selling books.
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The Rumpus Interview with André Alexis
André Alexis discusses his latest book The Hidden Keys, puzzles, chance, divinity, and the Toronto literary community.
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Best-selling author James Patterson is handing out bonuses to bookstore employees once again, celebrating the people who make best-selling authors possible. The Daily Beast has a roundup of some of the best independent bookstores across the country. As if you needed another reason to move to Canada, Toronto is getting five new bookstores.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Lucy Dacus’s Journals
What I write in my journals is a personal record of the events in my life, and my reactions to them.
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Monkey’s Paw in Toronto sells random books from a biblio-mat machine. A manhunt is on for a thief who stole two rare books in New York City. The last bookstore in Peshawar, Pakistan is closing. A Dallas, Texas bookstore is tricking people into buying books by making them sound like clickbait.
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If you want to work at The Strand, you first have to pass a literature test. But don’t worry, if you’re among the dozens of applicants that fail, you still can play Pokémon. Glad Day Bookshop, the oldest bookstore in Toronto, Canada and the longest-surviving LGBT bookstore in the world, needs some help. Hong Kong booksellers are […]
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Fresh Comics #9: Bird in a Cage
Countering our culture’s disregard for all things elderly, comics have become a medium of choice for celebrating the lives of our oldest and wisest generation. Bird in a Cage (Conundrum Press, 2016) joins a growing roster of graphic novels about the elderly that explore how much they are loved, how rich and complicated their lives are, and […]
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Saturday was Independent Bookstore Day and hundreds of shops across the country celebrated with discounts, events, and readings. The Bookworm Omaha is the only official bookseller at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting, and Warren Buffett personally approves the books sold at the event. Once Upon a Time Bookstore, located in Montrose, California and the […]
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A Buffalo bookstore owner was the target of an FBI investigation for more than two years, and now he wants to know why. Can independent bookstores survive in the state that gave us Antonin Scalia and Tony Soprano? San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood will not, after all, be a bookstore-free zone. Dog Eared Books is set to […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Veronica Dies in Jamaica
Understand that she is both the gold city in my imagination and its queen, and that her death signifies the end of that dream.
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Yes, it’s true. A new Harry Potter-themed bar, The Lockhart, is officially open in Toronto. “It’s where would-be-wizards can come drink away their muggle sorrows,” TIME reported.
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A new wall mural has been installed in Los Angeles’s The Last Bookstore to coincide with a new rare books section. Bookstores in train stations and airports are seeing sales rise as they begin acting more like traditional independent bookstores and less like chains, offering personalized recommendations from booksellers and stocking lesser known literary fiction. […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Owen Pallett
Canadian musician Owen Pallett talks Tori Amos, perfectionism, percussion, and dark head spaces with Erin Lyndal Martin.
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In The Chairs Are Where the People Go, Shelia Heti and Misha Glouberman explore all topics that Glouberman cares about, including feeling like a fraud, seeing John Zorn play Cobra, and asking a good question.
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