Massachusetts Center for the Book announced the 2021 Top Honor and Honors student writers in its flagship program for young people, Letters About Literature.
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She didn’t know it then, but when Marianne Reiner opened the Run for Cover bookstore in Ocean Beach in October of 2018, time was not on her side. As it turns out, real estate was not really her friend either. And then there were circumstances, which were truly beyond her control.
But when COVID-19 closed her doors and her landlord dashed her dreams, Reiner still had books and book lovers in her corner. And that was more than enough to keep Run for Cover in the race.
“I pivoted as quickly as I could, and I had some amazing things happen. The people who were really faithful customers and who had really taken to the bookstore continued to stay with us, and then more came on,” Reiner said from her home in Ocean Beach.
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Author fights to keep her queer memoir on a Texas high school reading list â dildo and all
A couple weeks ago, author Carmen Maria Machado watched a video of an angry mom wielding a pink strap-on dildo. The clip was from a school board meeting in Leander, Texas. And the woman was upset that Machadoâs memoir, In The Dream House, was on an approved reading list for high school students.
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In The Dream House, about an abusive same-sex relationship, is one of 15 titles up for review in Leander
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Posted: May 12, 2021 6:02 PM ET | Last Updated: May 12
May 11, 2021
By Carmen Maria Machado
Ms. Machado is the author of “Her Body and Other Parties,” a collection of short stories, and “In the Dream House,” a memoir.
When I was in my early 20s, I was in an abusive relationship with another woman. Soon after it ended, I did what I always did when I was heartbroken: I looked for art that spoke to my experience. I was surprised to find shockingly few memoirs of domestic violence or verbal, psychological and emotional abuse in queer relationships. So I wrote into that silence: a memoir, “In the Dream House,” which describes that relationship and my struggle to leave it.