C'mon Katie! The Seattle mayor race is wild!

Congratulations to David Szalay! I wrote this card months ago and added Ha! Called it! after Flesh made the longlist.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

Sunday morning.

TOAD WILL NOW DANCE, AND HE WILL BE WONDERFUL.

Saturday morning.

My vote for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social was counted! Seattle people check your ballot status.

She's a fancy tree.

Yesterday's excellent book mail from @graywolfpress.bsky.social!

This is beautiful.

Saturday evening.

November! A stack of short story collections to starve off the doom and well everything for a brief moment. Titles are in the alt text.

Excellent book mail from @ndbooks.bsky.social! All out in early 2026. I'm reading City of Rats today. Titles are in alt text

⚾️ Blue Jays!

Tuesday evening

Saturday afternoon.

Excellent galley mail! A collection of early 2026 titles from @graywolfpress.bsky.social! 🐺🐺🐺 Titles are in the alt text.

C'mon Mariners!

Monday morning.

Sunday evening.

Saturday night at a bus stop.

Friday afternoon.

Waiting for a bus.

Looking for spooky season books? Here are recommendations from my co-bookseller Brad and I! islandbooks.com/blog/haunted...

From the title story "Waiting for the Fear" by Oguz Atay and translated by Ralph Hubbell: "My country and its people infuriated me: No one read anymore. No one even knew how to properly feel. Which is why you couldn't trust the culture of a people who repeated everything they heard."

I just picked up my copy of I Used to be Charming by Eve Babitz and opened it up to the first essay. "All This and The Godfather too." "I hope everyone's having a good time. I know I certainly am." – Diane Keaton #NYRBWomen25

This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

Last night I told László (the cat)* to wake me up at 4 a.m. in case he won a big prize. Many congratulations to László Krasznahorkai (not a cat)for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature! *My cat was not named for László the writer. *I doubt László Krasznahorkai also answers to the name Buzzy.

Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes.

Big stack of galleys from @wwnorton.com, poetry from @yalepress.bsky.social, and one from New Directions in yesterday's book mail! Titles are in the alt text. All due out in early 2026.

One of my favorite books this year!

🎉📚The finalists for the 2025 @nationalbook.bsky.social! Congratulations to all! 📚🎉

Monday morning.

Saturday evening.

A spectacular galley mail day! Titles are in the alt text.

This banana peel is ready and waiting for its victim.

Today's excellent mail delivery! A copy of Time Tunnel by Eileen Chang; translated by Karen S. Kingsbury and Jie Zhang. Due out from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social on October 21.

fuck Cheney

👻October! A month for the weird, the fantastical, and the spooky! Here's a stack of short story collections I'll be reading from. Titles are in the alt text.

László on Tuesday.

One of my co-booksellers unearthed this ancient WordStock manual.

Meanwhile in Seattle...

Squirrel nest!

Sunday morning.

Saturday evening.

The sky over Seattle earlier this morning.

I came here to hunt whales, not my commander’s vengeance.

The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns is the current New York Review Books read together. Chapter 1: "Quite soon after I left Richmond station I turned into a quiet street where the snow was almost undisturbed and, climbing higher, I came to a road that appeared to be deserted." #NYRBWomen25.

I'm spending my Friday afternoon with Vigil by George Saunders. In Vigil Jill "Doll" Blaine is sent down to earth to escort the soul of K J. Boone the CEO of an oil company into the afterlife. Out in January 2026 from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social.