Join us for Books & Beans this Saturday!
11 days ago • 1 min readBooks & Beans this Saturday! Did you know that Poinciana Paper Press, our happy home, has a resident coffee roaster on the premises? Blooming Good Coffee is teaming up with us for Books & Beans, highlighting the cozy pastime that all book nerds know to be true: reading with a hot cup of bean juice. (Don’t worry, we're big tea fans over here, so there will be a selection of tea available too!)Come spend some time with us on Saturday, October 10. Browse books, chat with fellow bibliophiles,...
READ POSTJoin Rabble! Bookshop at the Conference on Healing, Trauma & Social Transformation
16 days ago • 1 min readWe're at the Conference on Healing, Trauma and Social Transformation this week! Rabble! Bookshop is thrilled to announce our booth at the first ever edition of the Conference on Healing, Trauma & Social Transformation at University of The Bahamas! We will be bringing along titles that reflect the themes of the conference, as well as a selection of handmade notebooks, feminist gear, and unique gifts for children and adults alike. If you get to us early enough, you may even be able to grab some...
READ POSTBook Spotlight - Clam Down
19 days ago • 1 min readBook Spotlight What would you do if your world was irrevocably changing and, in a text message, your mother suggested that you "clam down"?Would you do whatever you could to be calm?Would you clam up?Anelise Chen's Clam Down: A Metamorphosis is an experimental memoir that is loaded with natural history. She tells the story of embodying a clam, with all of its characteristics. On this journey, she learns about her father through an interview about his decade-long disappearance, uncovering what...
READ POST40 for 40: Books for the Willie Mae Pratt School for Girls
7 months ago • 1 min read40 for 40: Books for the Willie Mae Pratt School for Girls I like a quiet birthday, and this year is shaping up to be that way. I’ll probably spend most of it reading. While there will be no party and there is no need for gifts, I’m inviting you to help do a ting! For no particular reason, I have landed on the number 40. I would like for 40 (or more!) people to donate $20 toward the purchase of 40 books for the Willie Mae Pratt Centre for Girls. I have always loved reading, and it has exposed...
READ POSTJoin Rabble! Bookshop at Jollification this weekend ❄️
11 months ago • 1 min readGet your holiday shopping done early with Rabble! Bookshop at Jollification 🎄🎁 Rabble! Bookshop is excited to announce our booth, with Poinciana Paper Press, at this year's Jollification! Join us and find amazing gifts for yourself, your friends, and family. We'll have a selection of holiday cards, handmade notebooks, feminist gear, and unique gifts for children and adults alike – from graphic novels to cookbooks, come check out a selection of books you won't find anywhere else in The...
READ POSTCelebrating Women in Translation
about 1 year ago • 1 min readWomen in Translation Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Translating Myself and Others, called translating the “most profound, most intimate way of reading.” She said, “A translation is a wonderful, dynamic encounter between two languages, two texts, two writers. It entails a doubling, a renewal... It was a way of getting close to different languages, of feeling connected to writers very distant from me in space and time.” Winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 Jenny Erpenbeck said, “There are so...
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