Some hand-sells yesterday: Cal Flynn, Islands of Abandonment; Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire; Lauren Groff, Matrix

Wrote a little about my favorite books and movies of 2025 kasiareads.com/2025/12/31/b...

Great thread

Want to return to a paper planner in 2026. Any recs?

Can’t wait!

Queued up for my run tomorrow…

Fabulous list, natch. A lot of these are in stock at @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social , just sayin…

Little bit on Joan Silber eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2025/12/18/a...

This is the way

Trust me on this one

This is such a rich list, featuring several novels in translation by excellent presses: necessaryfiction.com/reviews/reco...

Our 4th annual! Can you believe it??

Quote with your model of masculinity

I think to maximize my happiness I will only be reading books from the 1970s by women writers. This was *excellent*.

Thanks are due to @neglectedbooks.com for bringing this terrific novel of exile from 1940 back from the brink. Insane to me that an utterly compelling depiction of German Jewish life was written by a non-Jewish English woman who eventually spent much of her life in New Zealand.

A true dilemma

I get texts from my mom

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

In which we take on TikTok

umsteigen in ottakring für verbindungen nach shouldakring, wouldakring und yeahbutactuallynevermindjustfuckitkring

Just a note to say that if you were a supporter of @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social podcast, you could ALREADY listen to my conversation with the boys about getting rid of books. The rest of you have to wait until Thursday.

Rereading I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Roz Schwartz. Chatting about it with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social on Tuesday for the next episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social. Would love to hear your thoughts.

let’s see how long it takes the “owner” of this acc to realize I made this post (he’s yelling at the tv rn so it should be a while)

May her memory be for blessing www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...

Wait, do I want to read Tom’s Crossing?????

Omg MASTERMIND is so good

On a Very Special Episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social I’m joined by @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social to talk about William Makepeace Thackeray’s wonderful VANITY FAIR onebrightbook.com/2025/10/28/b...

29 years ago @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social assigned me this book. I did not read it. But now I have performed my teshuvah (repentance)... onebrightbook.com/2025/10/28/b...

chicken

For the weekend crowd eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2025/10/24/o...

“you’re too straight and old to know that” - me to the “owner” of this acc bc he asked me abt ao3 my culture is not your costume 💔💔

Now here’s a man who talks sense

Thoughts on Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Cards eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2025/10/24/o...

Oh hell yes new Haber!

Put my intro to @onebrightbook.bsky.social episode on Galdós’s Miaow up at the blog eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2025/10/22/o...

NOBODY SHOULD GET TO TRASH THE WHITE HOUSE EXCEPT CANADA 😤

Dan Bejar is a vibe

Great book—y’all should think about reading it.

How your email finds me

BIRTH on Criterion!!! www.criterion.com/films/34221-...

My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...

Bear subtweet????

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

As a man who *did* have a mammogram once (long story), I can absolutely confirm that this is true.

More of this, PLEASE

HAPPY YANKEES ELIMINATION DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!

Quebec continues to be awesome

I hate it when I go out in public and the public is there.

The Laurentians are good for making you forget about other things

American Airlines gatekeeping, as per