| No Images? Click here   Say that 10 times fast. No, really, try it.   April 29 is #IndependentBookstoreDay, and in honor of the occasion, we asked people across the HuffPost newsroom to nominate a few stores they’ve grown to love over the years. After days of waxing poetic, we came up with a mega-list of 50 incredible indie bookstores. Let us know how many you've visited!"The Handmaid's Tale" premiered this week on Hulu and if you haven't watched the first three episodes yet, get thee to a streaming device. And then, when you're sufficiently spooked, read what showrunner Bruce Miller has to say about the series' unnerving realism, what star Elisabeth Moss really thinks about the feminist story, and how high school teachers are teaching dystopia like it to students today.  This is a must-read for any music fan, rock historian or feminist individual. Here's a teaser:"It was 1964 and singer Genyusha 'Goldie' Zelkowitz had a problem. The all-girl band she formed in 1962 with drummer Ginger Bianco, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, had a major label record contract and an upcoming Las Vegas stint ― but the bassist, Nancy Peterman, had just told the band that she was pregnant. She’d formed an attachment to the organist of a band they’d been performing with; things had taken their natural course. In the 1960s, birth control for unmarried women was still illegal in certain states. Roe v. Wade was not yet a glimmer in the Supreme Court’s eye, and an attempt to get her an illicit procedure fell through. The situation was unsurprising, and the conclusion was unfortunate: Peterman had to leave the band."Zelkowitz, who now goes by Genya Ravan, practically explodes with laughter remembering the incident now, 50 years later, during a phone conversation. 'She kept saying she was ‘so lonely’!' Ravan hoots. 'Had I known I would have bought her a vibrator.' A vibrator and a career, or a sexual partner and parenthood: That’s a choice The Beatles likely never had to make."       Already read The Handmaid's Tale? Great, here are 17 newer books you should read next. Be warned: Our definition of dystopia is a broad one — any vision of the future that could go awry qualifies.  When Carol Rama was 12 years old, her father committed suicide. Three years later, her mother was committed to a psychiatric clinic. Without any formal training, Rama turned to art as a form of therapy. She continued to make work, with limited recognition, until her death in 2015 at 97 years old. Here's why you should know her name.    1. The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch |
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