I’m gonna have to stitch a hellgate bridge to distinguish my hellgate towel from the other hellgate towels at Riis Park. Here’s to a great 2026 @hellgatenyc.com

All ERIS Gems available now from @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/series/eris-...

The reason everyone hates events is the reason they are never going to go away

Oprah Daily calls Wild Things "Resplendent with hard-won hope and unvanquished love, this book is both a meditation and an invitation." @columbiaup.bsky.social www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...

Cam Newton's assistant reads off a tweet that says Cam Newton looks like a Scooby-Doo Villain, while Cam listens in classic Scooby-Doo-villain-fashion

years ago—never mind how long precisely

From @weisenthal.bsky.social’s twitter and I thought he might enjoy my answer since my workplace uses it constantly because no one wanted to migrate to slack

I’m wrapping presents all day @communitybookstore.bsky.social come by say hi and let me recommend you True Grit

Publishing fun fact: Jonathan Baumbach help start Fiction Collective and Fiction Collective 2

The first place you are going to see it because they already do it is bookstores

We're just going to let Patti Smith have another bestseller?

Informed my boss of the existence of Ella McKay, what did you do today?

I love the sharp angle of the entrance to the Columbus Circle train station

Remember this is all going in your Shelf Awareness Obituary

I imagine they are friends but it feels like Geese over-powered MJ Lenderman, which is good

once every other year I remember Girl Talk

Community Goose at @communitybookstore.bsky.social

train smelled like Christmas this morning

A country buried in gambling debts yearns for Sharia Law

Tis the season

Today! All old and new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Film & Culture series are 50% off, including NOMADIC CINEMA by Alison Griffiths; MAN OF TASTE, by Rob King; THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS by @bleudeciel.bsky.social; and DEATH BY LAUGHTER, by @hennefem.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9 #CyberMonday

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Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine (1988)

Every vacation is now an archive of paperwork to make sure you are not overcharged by various companies

On Monday, December 1, Columbia University Press will be selling all books at 50% off! (And some books at 70%!) tinyurl.com/7wzhyfmv @columbiaup.bsky.social

Am I late to the genre "Cozy Translation"

I drink wokeness for breakfast (especially in woke 2) but it is great to see an ERIS press (a press I work with very closely) book reviewed at @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

What is the name of Ethan Hawke’s second book in Before Midnight? (Not a trick question, cannot remember)

There's a town called Realito in The Big Sleep. Realito

Train hero of the week is the guy yelling at everyone to move in because there was space in the middle

This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social

Two yoga studios that I have been to are closing down due to the cost of living (anecdata)

"MX Missile," slide 3 of 29 [gallery]

I had a really fun, dorky, SciFi-inflected conversation with Matthew Ying Yeung Metz about #GaiaWakes on the Kroc School at the University of San Diego's #KrocPod podcast. Please check it out!! open.spotify.com/episode/3McT...

folks . . . @daveweigel.bsky.social

I’m at the tiki bar in SF and a tech guy ordered a beer because he’s avoiding sugar

Seems like a timely book! ebbooksellers.com/item/u60uZZa...

People will argue that the modern left-wing populist turn started with Occupy but mark it down there will be someone who argues that it started with De Blasio

Coming from Europe to New York for four days then leaving for California for three nights is what I call “the jetlag speed ball”

Samsterix the guew

Copies of *The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza* have arrived! Full details, with 30 per cent discount offer, here: tinyurl.com/mry8864j. Many thanks to @franceskalbs.bsky.social and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for their generous comments (see linked page).

I.G. Farben moment

Trains running so bad in Frankfurt they could use an eichmann

“Martin Shaw was one of the first to recognise genocide in Gaza... His book charts new pathways for understanding genocide – an endeavour urgent now more than ever.” Francesca Albanese on 'The New Age of Genocide' by @martinshaw.bsky.social - out this week. www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Every literary classic has a gross moment. Sperm in Moby-Dick, bestality in Last Picture Show, eating shit in Gravity’s Rainbow, the woman who sleeps with the bear in The Bear

Now more than ever it is important to find community.