✨NEW EPISODE✨
In our first episode of season 3, host @kdwinchester talks to poet Amy Le Ann Richardson about her new collection OUT OF PLACES. Have a listen wherever you get your podcasts!
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Happy Halloween! Treat yourself to some new books during our fall sale on hubcity.org/books for the next two weeks! 🎃👻📚
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Came home to North Carolina to news that Those We Thought We Knew has won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, the state’s highest honor for fiction. Here’s hoping the book continues to find new readers and do real work.
Introducing the definitive anthology on what it’s like to grow up disabled, Owning It: Tales from our Disabled Childhoods.
Edited by @jenvcampbell, Lucy Catchpole and James Catchpole, and illustrated by Sophie Kamlish. Out 24 April 2025.
Find out more: faber.co.uk/journal/faber-to…
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'As disabled children, we didn't see many people like us in the books we read or the films we watched. And, when we did, we usually wished we hadn't! If they were the good guys, they were sweet inspirational children whose disability was their 'superpower'. If they were the bad guys, their disability was part of their evilness – like Captain Hook.
Which was annoying. And boring . . .
This is the book we wish we'd had when we were young.'
Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, Country Queers paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US. haymarketbooks.org/books/243…
I will always remember that I had to climb the hill a few different times to get cell service to be able to turn this in.
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Cell service still isn’t the greatest and WiFi can’t decide if it’s coming or going. But I did almost cry over my only slightly damaged book mail yesterday, so I’d say we’re doing fine.
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In the SC upstate near the NC border. We’re okay. Most of my town has no power. Few have cell service. We have no idea when folks will get power again. Please send all the love and aid to the Carolinas. We need it.