Tag: indie bookstores
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7 Black-Owned Bookstores to Check Out During #BlackHistoryMonth
Looking for a way to support black authors AND black bookstores during this #BlackHistory month? Here are some black-owned bookstores from around the United States. Each one has an expansive and interesting catalogue with online ordering available. Enda’s Booktique (Duncanville, Texas) Enda’s Booktique is an independent bookstore located in Duncanville (Dallas), Texas, founded by Enda Jean […]
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Native and Indigenous SciFi, Crime Novels, and more!
Crime novelists dish on writing about cops in a moment of reckoning (Los Angeles Times) Hall and Queally were joined by other L.A.-based crime fiction writers Attica Locke and Ivy Pochoda for a wide-ranging conversation about character voice, avoiding tropes, what they’re reading, the writing process — before and during a pandemic — and more. For Locke, the answer […]
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Indie Bookstores in the Age of Corona…
Indie booksellers turn virtual in response to pandemic (MPR News) Dobrow said Zenith closed the store to browsers in mid-March, long before the governor’s first stay-at-home order went into effect on March 25. Sensing people would want books, but little contact, they began offering curbside pickup in the parking spaces beside their building. They also […]
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A Literary Contest that Excludes Men, the Success of Indie Booksellers, and more…
A Code-Obsessed Novelist Builds a Writing Bot. The Plot Thickens (Wired) A native of India, the 58-year-old Chandra supported himself as a graduate student studying creative writing in the United States by working as a programmer. He is as comfortable with code as he is with prose, and his startup, Granthika, is a geekily sublime merger […]
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