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Amazon “Accidentally” Plans E book Sale Occasion At Similar Time as Impartial Bookstore Day
This Saturday was Impartial Bookstore Day, a really enjoyable day to be a e-book particular person with entry to, and affinity for, an impartial bookstore. On April fifteenth, Amazon introduced a week-long “book sale event” that included the twenty sixth. A number of people weren’t happy about this. And I can perceive why in fact. Amazon says that it was unintentional, although in fact in case you are an indie bookstore this rings fairly hole. So both it was intentional…or it wasn’t. To my thoughts, both is a nasty search for Amazon: both they new the optics can be unhealthy and simply needed to flex anyway or it didn’t perceive that the optics can be unhealthy. (The Machiavellian transfer would have been to have it the week earlier than Impartial Bookstore Day to tug ahead any marginal book-buying {dollars} and declare “we didn’t want to detract from the indies!”).
Texas Invoice Would Criminalize Promoting “Obscene” Books
“Poetry City”: Iowa Metropolis, Iowa
A fairly fascinating city-profile of Iowa Metropolis–which I’ll cede with out protest as probably the most literary metropolis within the U.S. on a per capita foundation (1000 writers out of 75,000 residents. Park Slope may by no means). It’s also smack dab in the midst of Iowa, which like the remainder of the Midwest has gotten pink (and redder) over the previous few a long time. I grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, the house of the College of Kansas, which enjoys/endures an analogous standing as an oasis of strangeness for its state. Iowa Metropolis is iconic, however dozens and dozens of college-towns present valuable incubation and respite for individuals who assume and exist in another way. We’re fortunate to have them, and we must always not take them for (land) granted.
The Books of Marie-Helene Bertino with Marie-Helene Bertino
Final week, I had the good privilege of speaking to Marie-Helene Bertino about her full revealed physique of labor. We talked by way of all 5 of her books in chronological order–what they meant on the time, how they join to one another, and what she thinks of them now. This was on the event of the publication of her new and wonderful short-story assortment, Exit Zero. It is a good gig typically.
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