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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie press Two Dollar Radio has opened a bookstore and event space in Columbus, Ohio. Key West Island Books, hit hard by Hurricane Irma, returns to service and launches a fundraising campaign....
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A Queens, New York bookstore is helping people with psychiatric conditions by hiring them. Ireland is celebrating Independent Bookstore week—here’s a look at some of its top indie bookstores....
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Complicating Narratives: A Conversation with Bushra Rehman
Poet, novelist, and teaching artist Bushra Rehman knows a Queens bully when she sees one. In her first novel, Corona, and now in her new poetry collection, Marianna’s Beauty Salon, Rehman depicts a...
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A historic bookstore in Portland could be yours for a cool $1.5m. A San Francisco bookstore started a monthly comedy show. Hilarity ensued. Back in 1991, England’s Broadhursts Bookshop stocked a...
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Harvard Book Store is selling printed copies of the redacted version of the Mueller report. An online Chinese bookstore opened its first physical location in Beijing. Publisher The Head & The Hand...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #173: Hanif Abdurraqib
Before reading Hanif Abdurraqib’s third book, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, my knowledge of A Tribe Called Quest was superficial. I knew that they were one of the big hip-hop...
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Otherwordly: Talking with Rosebud Ben-Oni
Rosebud Ben-Oni is talking with me about quantum mechanics, her face so filled with passionate curiosity, she is glowing on my computer screen. Her cadence is quick and she moves on to the subject of...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #199: Stuart M. Ross
Stuart M. Ross’s debut novel, Jenny in Corona, introduces a brilliant new literary voice. Set in Queens and Manhattan in the aughts, the book is narrated by Ty, a half-Jewish, half-Catholic...
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I Had to Go There: Talking with Enzo Silon Surin
The poems in Enzo Silon Surin’s debut full-length collection reach off the page and grab you by the throat—which makes its title, When My Body Was a Clinched Fist, particularly appropriate. Full of...
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You Can’t Stop Rivers from Running: Talking with Rajiv Mohabir
“Antiman,” a Desi Caribbean slur for gay men, is also the title of queer poet and memoirist Rajiv Mohabir’s high-stakes hybrid memoir, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and...
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