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Interview With Tiffany Phillips of Wild Geese Bookshop in Franklin, IN
Tiffany Phillips, owner and founder of Wild Geese Bookshop in Southern Indiana, can attest to the medicinal elements of books. Her shop is celebrating its second birthday this summer and it has become the intellectual apothecary to the town of Franklin, Indiana. Wild Geese feels exceptional in a clinical sense. Not cold. Entering the store feels like you’ve just received good news you weren’t expecting.
Devastating Quotes from Susan Sontag's Diaries
When able to stomach the voyeuristic flavors of reading a published diary, there are full bodied excerpts that appeal beyond the consumption of someone’s private life. This is how I felt while reading Susan Sontag’s diaries: complicit and enthralled, with a guilt of ingesting something that was never meant for me. Yet the most reassuring and sensitive parts of Reborn might be that the universal anxieties of adolescence and identity are articulated by one of America’s greatest philosophers.
5 Art History Books You Can Read In A Weekend
If you are, like me, an uncultured amorphous lump of tweets, then you’re starving for short educational remedies in modern art history. So here are five easily digestible art history books you can consume before you’re exposed as dilettante. It is not quite an art history, a biography, or a memoir. It is a stirring of the three by the iconic Françoise Gilot to make something a more intimate history.
What Happens When A Radical Bookshop Dies
Every month or so I check the Wikipedia page for LGBT bookstores to update the “closed” section, a list that has started to reach an upsetting length. Occasionally certain entries have been deleted from the page entirely, likely the result of a far-right edit-a-thons or careless moderators. While the erasure of LGBTQ+ history online is upsetting enough, the dissolution of brick and mortar bookstores, the physical spaces that hold Queer history, is heartbreaking.
5 Books To Read After The #MarchForOurLives
While there is a large amount of nonfiction concerning the dismantling of gun rhetoric in the US, these five book reflect by the inclusivity of the #MarchForOurLives. Each of these works examine gun violence and how it affects a wide diaspora of communities, in unequal and discriminatory fashion, and how the #MarchForOurLives might bring change for the groups that desperately and immediately need it.
When Live Poetry Nights Turn Into Parties
After the intermission, the MC Shavonne Kaye bounds up on stage with a seven year old clutching her hand. “She’s gonna help me host the rest of the night, y’all cool with that?” She gets loud whoops and soft coos from those charmed by her co-host. Shavonne introduces the next poet amidst the noise of forks scraping the home-cooked buffet, the artist Rae Parker discussing their live painting, and the soft sounds of an impromptu jam in the far corner where a few couples dance.
10 Books to Read Before the 2018 Oscars
This was an exceptional year for film. Every opening seemed to offer a cultural antidote to the headlines; wildly entertaining films imploring us for change, compassion, and understanding. Naturally there was a healthy body of literature behind each of them. So while we wait for the best picture to be announced, here is a tailored list of books to read before the Oscars: Jordan Peele’s directorial debut will remain one of the most influential American horror films.
The Best Comic Book Stores
It’s no secret that comic book stores are not always welcoming and wonderful places. They should be awesome nerd havens, but sometimes they can be unwelcoming or full of gatekeepers. So, we here at Book Riot thought we would compile a list of the best comic book stores we’ve been to and what makes them so great. Enjoy, and make sure to share the best comic book stores in your area in the comments! What really makes me love Comics Factory are the people who work there.
7 Books To Binge If You've Just Seen Lady Bird
Mumblecore darling and acclaimed actor Greta Gerwig has just released her directorial debut to universal praise. The Sacramento-set story concerns Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) and her senior year at a Catholic high school. The film is one of the most original films to be released this year, so we put together a reading list that will deepen your next viewing, when you drag your parents to see it.
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