Posthumous Charles Bukowski poems are finally 100% dolphin-free

When poet/novelist Charles Bukowski died in 1994, he left behind sixty-some published books and hundreds of unpublished poems. Black Sparrow Press, his lifelong (indie!) publisher, along with Ecco, his post-life (HarperCollins-owned)… Read more »

Writers come together to share their experiences with rape culture in a forthcoming book, edited by Roxane Gay

Over the last month, the spotlight of popular outrage has once again turned (rightly) to illuminate the heinous, often habitual, sexual abuse that takes place in our culture. The details—the names, the… Read more »

Austin celebrates the grand opening of its new central library

This past Saturday in Austin, Texas, community members and public officials celebrated having made good on something they’d promised each other some four years earlier: to build, in the words of Democratic Mayor Steve… Read more »

New York Observer columnist who offered ISIS money to kill him thinks we should close all public libraries, takes heat

This past Sunday morning, the New York Observer columnist Andre Walker took to Twitter to declare the following: “Nobody goes to libraries anymore. Close the public ones and put the… Read more »

DIESEL, A Bookstore encourages donations of children’s books following the northern California wildfires

In troubling times like these, you do what you can with what you have (that’s what we always say, anyway) and what Larkspur, California’s excellent DIESEL, A Bookstore has is a keen… Read more »

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has turned city landmarks “Amazon orange” in a bid for the company‘s second headquarters

Sigh.    

Novelists Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jesmyn Ward are officially geniuses, too

Early yesterday morning, while you were sleeping, twenty-four other people became geniuses, officially. It happens every year about this time. You get in bed, you sleep (or try to sleep),… Read more »

Moonlight director heads to Harlem to film James Baldwin adaptation

Last week, Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar Award-winning Moonlight, attended a meeting of Community Board 10 in Harlem, where he took to a podium and spoke to the neighborhood’s representatives and residents about his intention to film… Read more »

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Moon Palace III: Journey to the Booze

Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is moving — again! As you may recall, the beloved indie in the city’s Longfellow neighborhood moved to their current Minnehaha Street address just last year, in… Read more »