Today while working at the library, a man came in to pick up his holds with a bird perched on his shoulder. A woman was wearing a shirt that said “I love God but some of his children drive me crazy.” Was a good day.

wildly excited for this, coming April 2026

Finally, a Holy War I can join

Thursday inspo / weekend inspo / life inspo

Advance copies of Katharina Volckmer’s CALLS MAY BE RECORDED have arrived! Out Sept. 16! To request, plz email brett at twodollarradio dot com (thanks!) 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/cal...

Advance copies of THE SOFA by Sam Munson have landed 🪬🛋️ Out November 11, 2025 🌀 request a PDF or print ARC by emailing brett at twodollarradio dot com (thank you) “A weird hug of a novel. A nightmare, warm and cozy.” —Adam Levin 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/the...

Incredible new bookseller endorsement for Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE — out July 15! Thank you Bryan at Literati! 💖 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/abs...

Gernika was bombed 88 years ago this week by German and Italian air forces at the behest of Franco, and laid bare for all the world to see the ultimate conclusion of fascism. WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE author— @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social —was on @theworld.org👇 theworld.org/segments/202...

social media has been part of my job for years, but I will never ever feel qualified to open the Threads app

Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 26!

Happy Earth Day 🌱📖 Love the planet? So do we 💚

ANNOUNCING: Seven Stories Press x Two Dollar Radio ✨ 👀 @sevenstories.bsky.social Read all about it in Publishers Weekly: 🔗 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 26!

On the way to Michigan with a box of damn good books. See you soon, booksellers. @twodollarradio.bsky.social

the cat is indeed out of the bag. meow. 💖 @sevenstories.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Very happy with how much better our new website looks. Hope you'll check it out. ⚡📻 twodollarradiohq.com

⚡️ Announcinge: CALLS MAY BE RECORDED, a novel by Katharina Volckmer — out from yours truly in the US & Canada on Sept. 16, 2025!! *Critics/booksellers and the like: if you’re interested in receiving a galley, please email brett at twodollarradio dot com 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/cal...

TRIANGULUM by @masande.bsky.social is included on this wonderful list of “5 Underrated Dystopian Books” for @reactorsff.bsky.social 💖 Big thanks to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social ✨ 🔗: reactormag.com/backlist-bon...

goods picked up from @downboundbooks.bsky.social 💙

design is MY passion

design is my passion

Happy April Us Fools or whatever

Testing this out here idk

happy birthday to poet champ @nathanthegreathan.bsky.social, a person I am very happy to be friends with. Love you, buddy

latest library display for my portlandia millennials

The Basque Educational Organization has chosen WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE as their next book club pick, and I'll be joining the conversation! This takes place virtually on Monday, March 31, 5:30-6:30 PDT. Join the party here: www.basqueeducational.org/event/book-c...

“I realized that most monuments were erections, one way or another. And it became clear to me, after the sun had gone down and the tourists had dispersed, that someday the monuments would be ruins.”

Today at the bookshop⚡

Hello @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social 💖💖

ABSENCE galleys have landed🛬 Haunting and atmospheric, Issa Quincy’s novel, ABSENCE, is an indelible nesting doll of human impression and memory. Out July 15! 🗣️booksellers, librarians, critics and the like: If you’re interested in receiving a galley, please email brett @ twodollarradio dot com

casual reminder that we sell French toast at the bookstore

BREAKING(book) NEWS: On October 14, 2025, we are delighted to release the New Classics Edition of Karolina Waclawiak’s HOW TO GET INTO THE TWIN PALMS 🌴🌴 Originally published in 2012, we are stoked to have this title back in print moving forward. 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/how...

We are celebrating our 20th anniversary as a press this year! Big thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for sharing the news! 💖💖 lithub.com/two-dollar-r...

I guess me and the book boiz can’t hangout here

Chemtrails over the Book Shop, or something like that

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last night at my weird ass bookstore

What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a @latimes.com Book Prize finalist! Mila esker to the LA Times Book Prize, their panel of writers, and the team at @twodollarradio.bsky.social for making this possible. And congratulations to my fellow nominees. I’m honored & overjoyed to be in their company.

⚡️ BREAKING NEWS: What We Tried to Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize! 🔗 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

🚨 ANNOUNCING: The Sofa, a novel by Sam Munson — coming November 11, 2025 🛋️🌀 We are thrilled, thrilled I say!, to be publishing this Kafkaesque slow-burn domestic horror from a master of the uncanny. 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/the...

WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE by @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social is featured in Alida Becker’s new and fantastic historical fiction column for The New York Times. Check it out! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

Editors of The New York Times Book Review recommend WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE by @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social

I think so

Big day at the library. Today, I recommended THE RED-HEADED PILGRIM by Kevin Maloney to an 18 year old kid/guy who doesn’t like to read (enjoy that ride!) and made this tastefully groan-worthy display of “band books” 😎

MY VOLCANO by John Elizabeth Stintzi makes this list of "Queer Books About the Environment for When All You Can Think About Is Climate Crisis" at @autostraddle.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 🔗 www.autostraddle.com/queer-climat...

Happy 1-year book-anniversary to I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays about the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am by Zachary Pace 🎤📚 This book is a vital and affecting reflection on how popular culture can shape personal identity. 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/i-s...

Big News! Nora Lange’s US FOOLS makes the short list for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction:

OUT TODAY! The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich (New Classics Edition), featuring an introduction by Steve Erickson and a new original afterword by Laura van den Berg 🌙 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/the...

In my attempts to be less self conscious, here’s a little diddy/mantra I wrote for myself. Could be helpful for anyone who deals with health anxiety or for people trying to live cleaner.

We're closed tomorrow but back at it Friday. L8r sk8rs. Also read this book.