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October 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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... I didn't know she was a bookseller herself!
"Yeah, being a bookseller, I’m always confronting inspectors as they try to check my bookstore for illegal books, so it’s obvious that The Book Censor’s Library was inspired by those actual inspectors in my actual bookstore."
"Yeah, being a bookseller, I’m always confronting inspectors as they try to check my bookstore for illegal books, so it’s obvious that The Book Censor’s Library was inspired by those actual inspectors in my actual bookstore."
“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan
Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …
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October 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
... I didn't know she was a bookseller herself!
"Yeah, being a bookseller, I’m always confronting inspectors as they try to check my bookstore for illegal books, so it’s obvious that The Book Censor’s Library was inspired by those actual inspectors in my actual bookstore."
"Yeah, being a bookseller, I’m always confronting inspectors as they try to check my bookstore for illegal books, so it’s obvious that The Book Censor’s Library was inspired by those actual inspectors in my actual bookstore."