Not sure what to read this holiday season? Have a friend with a particular taste in books? No worries, Book*hug is back with more wonderful recommendations this year! Choose your own adventure with our Personalized Wishlist Series and find a book that suits your literary preferences. For fans of the coming-of-age novel we recommend Big […]
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Today, we’re sharing Hana Shafi’s playlist for People You Know, Places You’ve Been! Join us in listening to this wonderful playlist curated by Hana Shafi, author of People You Know, Places You’ve Been, Small, Broke and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World and It Begins With the Body! Hana selected these songs to accompany […]
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Today, Beatriz Hausner is taking us behind “Everyday Goddesses,” a poem from She Who Lies Above! “Everyday Goddesses” is a distilling of a longer poem inspired by the work of surrealist artist Virginia Tentindo. I initially conceived of it as a kind of incantation in the manner of the ancient elegiac texts. It incorporates elements […]
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Today, we’re thrilled to share a new playlist to accompany As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson translated by Anita Anand! Join us in listening to this wonderful playlist that includes songs from the novel, and songs that inspired Caroline’s writing! Take a listen before, during, or after reading, or if you’re just looking have […]
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Today, we are excited to announce the release of As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson translated by Anita Anand! Happy Book Birthday to As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson, beautifully translated by Anita Anand! Anand is also the author of the award-winning novel, A Convergence of Solitudes. This autobiographical debut novel was a runaway […]
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Today, Sandra Ridley is taking us behind “Torchlight,” a poem from Vixen! Torchlight, as in an illumination in the dark. As experienced by the one who holds the torch? Or as experienced by the one caught in its light? The centered visual element of each page of this sequence in Vixen is the beam of […]
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Join us today in welcoming our guest Beatriz Hausner, author of She Who Lies Above! She Who Lies Above is a book of verse and prose poems built around the figure of Hypatia, the Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician who lived in Alexandria in the fourth century A.D. Can you tell us more about Hypatia and […]
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Today, we are excited to announce the release of She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner! Happy Book Birthday to She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner. In these poems, Hausner merges poetry, fiction, and meditative prose to create a layered world inhabited by characters both historical and imagined. She Who Lies Above is Annie Lennox […]
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Today, we’re thrilled to share Michael V. Smith’s musical accompaniment to Queers Like Me! Join us in listening to this wonderful playlist curated by Michael V. Smith, author of Queers Like Me! These songs compliment Michael’s new book in a playful manner; take a listen before, during, or after reading, or if you’re just looking […]
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