ICYMI last week, we published our feature on Indie bookstores that promote masking. Please give these stores your business if you’re local, or even if you’re not! Support good people doing great work, for literature and for public health 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/indie-bookst...

Hi, new followers! We publish every week, and will have more like our bookstores piece: more from a covid-conscious perspective, more features with a social/political scope. We also do lists of upcoming books each month & reviews. You can support us by subscribing 🧡 #booksky www.whoevenreads.com

"Current actions, like those taken by the booksellers mentioned in this article, are what will make the difference in saving and bettering individual lives, in raising public awareness, in determining how soon people who have already been disabled by Covid get the care and attention they need."

Love to learn about other book shops across the nation standing up for public health and safety! BookWoman in ATX is the goat! Give them your business if you live here

Did you happen to notice that 200-something people had interacted positively with this post at the time you made this little “joke”? Anyway, I do hope you find community some day. It’s pretty nice

I loved working on this. These booksellers are amazing, please take a look and consider buying your books from these stores! #booksky

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

trans girls only want one thing and it's disgusting (take a powerbomb off the top off an abandoned soviet megastructure)

What to read first 🤔 #booksky

Check out Elisabeth’s review of A Splintering by Dur e Aziz Amna. If you like the genre “A woman did something terrible but…patriarchy, but ALSO she’s an unreliable narrator and maybe a horrible person” this one’s for you #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/review-a-spl...

Ok, so this is not the most obvious choice of a book to share on Mother's Day, but if you have a mother who is a fan of literary suspense about morally grey women (they exist!) A Splintering will last longer than flowers. Anyhow, read our review #booksky

This Thrush(?) is like “This object was made with me in mind” #birds

Great to see Hachette employees fighting back against management to get the unionization they’re entitled to. This will be the biggest publishing union in history. As a fellow NewsGuild member, I am cheering you on 📚💙 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Honey and The Hill are both out today! Check out these and more of the best new releases in May. I loved The Hill and I highly recommend looking into the author’s mother’s real life story #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

Congrats to @torreypeters.bsky.social on being a Pulitzer finalist. Stag Dance (the novella) is one of the most linguistically exciting (and funniest) things I’ve read in probably a decade 📚💙

it's funny that men are so into history but can't remember anything that you like or believe or said

ICYMI We covered the best books coming out in May! If you liked Karen Russell’s The Antidote you will also love Babylon, South Dakota by @tom-lin.bsky.social. Such an elaborately constructed universe. Don’t miss it. #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

I think framing a type of platform that allows for individual autonomy as being opposed to the existence of collaborative publications is unnecessarily scarcity minded and, if only incidentally, implies blame on people being too ignorant to know that they should be doing something more legit

To the people RUNNING down the sidewalk with their dogs, flinging full iced coffees out of their cars into traffic, and making fun of masking: SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO LIVE IN A SOCIETY To NICE people also trying to live in a society: Here are some books, we picked these out for you 🧡 #booksky

Do you like NEW books? Check out our picks for May. These are the books everyone will be talking about in a few weeks when the NYT rips off my hard work and diligence. I’M ON TO YOU NEW YORK TIMES #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

and I will to my lazy best and co-sign boost! as a 1st CA from Northern Migration Yankee Black folk, I needed books growing up to connect me to this culture.

🎉🎉It’s time for BOOKS WE LIKE THE LOOKS OF 🎉🎉 We’ve got the best new releases for May picked out for you, including books from Jesmyn Ward, Imani Thompson, and @tom-lin.bsky.social #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

Subscribe to Who Even Reads! We do book reviews, author interviews, and other book-related features. We are very author focused and take books seriously. If you do too, please check us out! #booksky Whoevenreads.com

Check out my review of No God But Us by Bobuq Sayed (out May 26). This incisive novel looks at the experiences of queer refugees who come to Turkey seeking access to the EU but still find themselves lacking rights and protections 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/review-no-go...

James Joyce, speaking of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien, said that they were his "son of laughter" and his "son of tears". But which was which? Horror and cozy are the way of projection and the way of manifestation. But which is which? Both give readers space to explore how to respond to change.

Although we're a web publication, one of our greatest inspirations is @davidnaimon.bsky.social's Between the Covers podcast, and we try to reflect similar intellectual integrity and respect for authors in what we do If you haven't listened, check it out! #booksky milkweed.org/between-the-...

Ohhhhh look who scooped the New York Times AGAIN! #booksky www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

I picked the @torreypeters.bsky.social episode because it was very funny and real but there are so many good ones. If you don’t already listen to Between the Covers, do yourself a favor and check it out 📚💙 milkweed.org/between-the-...

Amid the latest wave of irrelevant trash anti-masking rhetoric, please enjoy Lisa's non-trash* thoughts on Kim Samek's stories "Return" and "The Sharpest Knife" #booksky *Some stories in Samek's collection are literally about trash, a perfectly fine subject www.whoevenreads.com/i-am-the-gho...

fench fy #art

lol #gay #verse #damnitstrue

It's Independent Bookstore Day! Incoming: a thread of AMAZING indie bookstores to support today and all year round #booksky These are all stores that practice some form of Covid mitigation, so be sure to check their masking policy if you visit in person, and bring your own respirator if possible

You can order books from Firestorm and support a great mutual aid hub. ✨📚✨

Do you refuse to wear a mask for COVID & make fun of those who do? Do you mock the mentally ill & call them bad names? Do you make fun of people who need public support for their disabilities? Congrats! You're on RFK Jr.'s team. There's your leader, so get in line under him!

ICYMI I wrote about @kimsamek.bsky.social’s I Am the Ghost Here, a beautiful story collection that addresses the pandemic and its #longcovid legacy, climate crisis, disability, and fractured identity. Breathtakingly honest book 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/i-am-the-gho...

Put the Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl at the top of your list too! #BookSky

I yelped.

Elisabeth: What should I post on the Who Even Reads account? Lisa: Something controversial Elisabeth: Hmm, like what? Lisa: Something about Lena Dunham Elisabeth: You know I only barely know who that is #booksky

I wrote about the discussion of #longcovid and the ongoing pandemic in @kimsamek.bsky.social’s electrifying debut collection I Am the Ghost Here 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/i-am-the-gho...

Y’all are killing me out here with these intense coughs in public and no mask on

Yes, nothing to see here... except 53,000 headstones, plus 503,000 living people potentially facing medical/funeral debt that might require personal or equity loans. Also represents grief, lost time, unfulfilled needs, and sorrow, but you're just a statistic now, folks, so we don't consider that.

Don’t miss this little gem of a book. It pairs well with the new Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End if you’re looking for honest reckonings with how we got to our political present and what a truly liberated future might look like 📚💙

So look, we'll admit we could be queerer. Not personally (we're already very queer), but yeah, there could be even more gay books on our site and more books that are even gayer. We'll look into it. In the meantime, this very queer content is here #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/the-transfor...

I think it would be funniest if this blurb appeared on the cover of an Ottessa Moshfegh book 📚💙

Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by @patrickcottrell.bsky.social publishes today! I hope you took our advice and preordered your copy, along with the others on our list for April. Put your email in the box to subscribe so you don’t miss our picks for May! 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!

I reviewed Dear Monica Lewinsky WEEKS before the New York Times because I am hella prescient with good books. This novel is fiercely feminist and funny and cool and you’ll love it 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/review-julia...

ICYMI, that Lindy West Slate article was trash, and the internet outrage about her marriage is anti-poly, misogynist, and racist! Read our explainer on the Lindy West outrage and read her very funny memoir Adult Braces 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/polyamory-po...

Reposting this because I just finished The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...