What Working at a Used Bookstore Taught Me About Literary Rejection

What Working at a Used Bookstore Taught Me About Literary Rejection

“Try this. If you don’t like it, I’ve got more.”

By Carl Lavigne | August 24, 2022

How Death Masks Blur the Lines Between Art, Mourning, and Remembrance

How Death Masks Blur the Lines Between Art, Mourning, and Remembrance

Hayley Campbell on the Painstaking Process of Depicting the Dead For the Living

By Hayley Campbell | August 24, 2022

The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

Or, We're All Still Locked Away in Edward Rochester’s Attic...

By Gwendolyn Kiste | August 24, 2022

Can a Critic of “Wokeness” Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

Can a Critic of “Wokeness” Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

William Deresiewicz in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 24, 2022

Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

Dan Bouk in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | August 24, 2022

Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World

Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World

Sinclair McKay in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 24, 2022

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Jason Chin on Developing Emotional Connections with Places in Order to Illustrate Them

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A teacher was removed after sharing this QR code for students to get banned books.

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A new book will collect Jack Kerouac's writings from when he worked as a fire lookout.

By Corinne Segal | August 23, 2022

Kate Chopin threw her most famous character under the bus in this ironic rebuttal to critics.

Kate Chopin threw her most famous character under the bus in this ironic rebuttal to critics.

By Corinne Segal | August 23, 2022

Look at these beautiful book sculptures adorned in fungi and coral.

Look at these beautiful book sculptures adorned in fungi and coral.

By Jonny Diamond | August 23, 2022

I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Release

I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Release

Lauren Acampora on the Public Consumption of Art, and How Not To Let It Consume You

By Lauren Acampora | August 23, 2022

What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

Dan Bouk on “Madam and the Census Man” and the Untold Stories Behind Census Records

By Dan Bouk | August 23, 2022

The History of Riga’s “Little Nuremberg” Trial

The History of Riga’s “Little Nuremberg” Trial

Linda Kinstler on Paranoia and Justice in Soviet-Occupied Latvia

By Linda Kinstler | August 23, 2022

Stuck in a Spaceship: On <em>The Expanse</em> and Redrawing the Lines of a Body

Stuck in a Spaceship: On The Expanse and Redrawing the Lines of a Body

Allison Wyss Considers Bodies in Space and Our Communal Body on Earth

By Allison Wyss | August 23, 2022

WATCH: Elizabeth Crane Talks to Leslie Jamison About Divorce, Transformation, and More

WATCH: Elizabeth Crane Talks to Leslie Jamison About Divorce, Transformation, and More

The Author of This Story Will Change in Conversation at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 23, 2022

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