This Week in Indie Bookstores
New York’s Mercer Street Books (a shop astute readers of this column might recognize in the column’s featured image) is facing hard times because of COVID-19 and NYU construction, and has turned to...
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Completely Embodied: Talking with K-Ming Chang
My friends and I refer to K-Ming Chang as a beacon of Gen Z excellence, though it can be said that she has achieved excellence that transcends generational divides. Bestiary is Chang’s debut novel,...
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Indie bookstores across the country are wrapping storefronts in an anti-Amazon protest. A Philadelphia bookstore staged a sit-in after receiving racist emails. Local booksellers are struggling for many...
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Vox takes a look at how the pandemic is pounding local bookstores. A Seattle bookstore’s labor union wants to keep cops out of their shop. Help your local bookstores now, and get your holiday shopping...
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Starting to shop for the holidays? Don’t forget the books! And, celebrate indie bookstores on Small Business Saturday. Netflix teen romance Dash & Lily arrived just in time to make NYC’s the Strand...
View ArticleReading the Landscape of the Past: Jessica J. Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest
When I was in graduate school for geotechnical engineering, a professor summarized the field of geology into one sentence: “The tip of Mt. Everest is a glacial marine clay.” Geology tells the story of...
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The Song and the Silence: Talking with Shin Yu Pai
Shin Yu Pai is the author of ENSŌ, a book which in its very construction exemplifies the possibility and practice of art-making as a form of devotion. Combining poetry, prose, imagery of all kinds, and...
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Cherry Blossom Girl
When Ahmma visited us in New Jersey, I had nothing but greed in my heart. She was a first-rate smuggler of agricultural contraband from Taipei to Anchorage to Newark: wax apples nested in the cups of...
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My Grandfather’s Laugh Is like Thread
It is not the wheelchair, the sunken cheekbones, or even his bony legs that shock me. Rather, it is the lack of warmth and spirit that renders him unrecognizable. My grandfather, the one who let me use...
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This past year saw huge growth in YA graphic novel sales. Check out these five Kentucky bookstores, with more than two centuries of bookselling combined. A new Boston bookstore has plans for cozy...
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