Did you miss our Elevenses @dieselbookstore.com podcast yesterday? You're in luck, I have it right here... #BookSky

Hanif Abdurraqib on "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times." Beautiful writing, as always.

Some really fabulous books on our Elevenses @dieselbookstore.com podcast today. Check it out here: #BookSky

It's not just Gen Z who hates AI, let me tell you... #AI

On today's Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com, the skinny on literary agents, a celebration of butter, The Troubles, and more. Check it out here: #BookSky

We had a great time on the Elevenses @dieselbookstore.com podcast today; Emma Straub, Willy Vlautin, the runaway YESTERYEAR, and much more. Check it out here: #BookSky 📚

91% of the class members joined. The average in class action lawsuits is 9%. #BookSky

Didn't “enter a story, and interact with its world in real time" used to mean, idk, *reading*...? #BookSky

Make it stop. #AI #BookSky

In this clip from our Elevenses @dieselbookstore.com podcast, Will, our Columbia UP rep, talks about an outstanding new book about Bowie and Prince. Note our rep Julia's face when he introduces it - sheer glee! Full episode here: www.youtube.com/@DIESELBooks... #BookSky 📚

Your periodic reminder that LLMs are incapable of "understanding" anything and that it is all a function of "self working card trick" of language probabilities; it just generates likely sounding bullshit. Sometimes that likely sounding bullshit is accurate because likely sounding things often are.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

I am so tired of living in this upside down world. Every day, the worst of something else. #BookSky

THIS!

I’m voting for (and choosing) the damn bear #california #swallwell

It was an absolute joy to interview Sonya Walger for our Elevenses @dieselbookstore.com podcast today and talk about her fabulous new novel, WIFEHOUSE, a beautifully written examination of marriage, motherhood, and art. Thank you, Sonya! #BookSky 📚

We really need to start normalizing sanity. #losttheplot

This is genius.

On its face, funny enough, but this endless shrimp story gives me an opportunity to recommend (again) one of my favorite books, Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan #BookSky

Check out our latest Elevenses @dieselbookstore.com podcast! We talked about the new Tana French, Ruins by Lily Brooks-Dalton, and a weighty James Joyce bio among many other gems. #BoookSky 📚

Puglia, Italy (Trani) Chalk on paper I love working with chalk, which is very forgiving. #artsky #myart

Make it stop. #AI

In case there was any doubt about the state of things.

I can always tell if writing is AI generated - it's like a bad smell seeping from the page. It would be nice to think that publishers can too but this slop bucket nightmare will happen again. #BookSky 📚

We talked about some fabulous books on our Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com podcast today. Check it out: #BookSky 📚

Incredible moment

Check out the latest edition of our Elevenses podcast (now with "NPR voice"!) with our fabulous reps and their excellent book recommendations. #BookSky 📚

Listening to people talk about Anthropic as being "the good AI" while I wait for my (pathetic) class action settlement money due to me because "the good AI" stole every one of my books to feed into its LLM. What a time to be alive, eh? #BookSky #AI

We are going to be stupided to death.

Christopher Buehlman is a gracious, funny, and fascinating guest on our Elevenses @dieselbookstore.com podcast today. He'll be in-store tomorrow signing Between Two Fires. Info: dieselbookstore.com @buehlmeister.bsky.social #BookSky 📚

BlueSky needs an edit button! Obviously, I mean "Chris" and BETWEEN TWO FIRES

Sneak preview of our upcoming (3/4) Elevenses podcast interview with author Christopher Buehlman who will be at @dieselbookstore.com on 3/5. Here, Vhris talks about “interrogating Christianity” in his novel Newteen Two Fires. @buehlmeister.bsky.social #BookSky 📚 #fantasy

In this clip from a very special upcoming episode of our Elevenses podcast (link in our bio), we chat with author Christopher Buehlman! If you’re a fan of Buehlman’s incredible books, join us for our in-store event with him on March 5th at 6:30pm. @buehlmeister.bsky.social #BookSky 📚

HEY, I AM DOING ANOTHER FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS! AND GIVING AWAY ANOTHER SIGNED ARC (Advance Review Copy) OF OBSTETRIX!!! YOU COULD GET TO READ IT EARLY (it doesn't come out until June) AND HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES STAY HOUSED!!!!

I've recently been informed that "trad wife horror" (a tautology, I know) is the next big genre for 2026. OBSTETRIX by @naomikritzer.bsky.social is a brilliant example. She describes a reality that would have been unthinkable even a year ago. Chilling and so well done. Pre-order it! #BookSky 📚💙

Welp. #BookSky

I'm not sure I'm emotionally equipped to deal with Fridays anymore.

We had two of the best on the Elevenses @dieselbookstore.com podcast yesterdsay - Julia from Hachette and Patricia from Princeton UP. I immediately ordered books books books boooookkkkksssss. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIZ... #BookSky 📚💙

Is there a band called Arya Stark’s List? Because I feel there should be. At least one. #BookSky 📚💙

Two of the best publisher's reps in the book biz talking about some incredible books on our Elevenses podcast @dieselbookstore.com. Catch previous episodes here: www.youtube.com/@DIESELBooks... #BookSky 📚💙

Best Bunny.

Things you believed from reading treasured childhood books that turned out not to be true: * The taste of Turkish Delight is in no way worth selling out your entire family. * Quicksand is not a constant danger. #BookSky 📚💙

It really does seem as if there is a race on to see who can become the most villainous supervillain in the history of all supervillains. There are at least half a dozen current contenders.

Absolutely tracks with the state of...everything. Also, lol.

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Fantastic conversation with our reps today on our Elevenses with the Reps @dieselbookstore.com podcast! Get the inside book scoop here. #BookSky

“If the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death." - John Irving. Or even without stopping those things.

When I started reading this thread, I honestly thought it was a metaphor for the state of the country rn and then, holy crap.