Quimby's has launched a print and design service Quimby's Ink! Check Quimbys.com/blog for info! We offer publication design, in-house risograph, letterpress, and tabloid color Laser Printing and binding for zines and comics! Stop in to the bookstore or contact us to tell us about your project!

This is one heck of a good used bookstore in Cooperstown, New York. www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...

We got our Christmas tree up today, the first one with all three of us living together. It's been a tough year so it's been nice to get into the spirit.

My local train station snack/gift shop has two bookcases and three spinning racks of books. All three racks and 75% of the shelf space is for local authors. I travel a fair amount and don't see these ratios often, so props to Friar Tuck in the Albany-Rens Station.

I mean, just the absolute best. The new box set has been such a fun way to once more re-explore my favorite band that almost made it while definitely making it at the same time. Few bands feel more like home than The Replacements.

Submissions are open to the end of the month, no fees ever. All subs get a response by November 30. If you don't get one, let us know! Now and then one gets lost and we want to make sure you get a response within the submission period. Thanks! hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission...

My review of a classic upstate NY bookshop in Hudson Falls. www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...

I saw Train Dreams this weekend and enjoyed it. Nothing quite breaks your heart like the understanding that time, love, friends, family, and life is passing you by, and when it's gone it's not coming back. And that's scary, and that's beautiful, and the film nailed all the emotions of the novella.

Every legal pundit every time Trump does something illegal

We are currently open for submissions with guidelines at our website! hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission...

A Halloween poem from my book Nassau. Have a spooky night out there!

Our submission window opens in 4 days! Guidelines at our site... hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission...

My write-up of Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Airy, Philly, Pennsylvania is now up at The Bookshop Hunter blog. www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...

It's the time of year I set aside an evening to watch Sport Team I Like try to put a bouncy ball into a score hole more times than Sport Team I Feel Indifferent Toward. It is the only sport I know anything about so please do not take this as an indication that I know of other sporting circumstances.

We got the Lucha contingency out here

A bookshop interview with poet Cheryl Rice! www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...

Sadly closed a while back, because we need bookstores like this now more than ever. www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...

Submissions will open November 1 and close at the end of November, 2025, for an issue that will go live in early 2026. No theme, no fee. If you don't hear back within that window, reach out to us. Now and then a sub slips into our junk folder. We want to make sure you get a response ASAP!

Every single true crime story that takes place before 1920 goes: "He entered Otis Jefferson's apothecary and asked for 44 tablets of strychnine to kill some rats in his barn. Two days later his new wife disappeared, or as he said, left to visit a distant relative. No one asked further questions."

It appears I have won a MacArthur Fellowship Doofus Grant and I now owe them $800,000. This writing degree gets more useless by the day!

Submissions open November 1 and close at the end of the month for an issue that will go live in early 2026. No fee, no theme. hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission...

My write-up of the excellent Oblong Books in Millerton, NY www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...

Ten years from now, after trillions more dollars spent and untold limited resources wasted, we'll still be making fun of how useless and shitty AI is, all while it absolutely ruins numerous industries, occupations, and the environment.

One Battle After Another is easily the best movie I've seen all year, by a mile. I walked out of that the same way I felt walking out of No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, and Once Upon a Time In Hollywood.

Coming to Troy, NY in a couple weeks!

It's very likely we will open to submissions one more time before the end of 2025. Details will be coming soon but the issue will have no theme, with no fee as always.

I have an indie bookstore blog called The Bookshop Hunter and here's my entry for the great Uncle Bobbie's Coffee & Books www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

I have a dentist appointment tomorrow on 9/11 and if he doesn't say, "Never forget...to floss" I'll be filing a report with the better business bureau.

I found an old notification from Ello from that one day I used it in, what, 1758?

City Sunlight No. 7, watercolor on paper by Michael Chapman

It dawned on me today that I'm getting close to 20 years since joining MySpace/social media and meeting a bunch of "online friends" who became face-to-face friends. I met more important people this way who I'm still in touch with than high school and college combined.

My write-up of McNally Jackson down at the seaport is over at The Bookshop Hunter. It's an astoundingly beautiful branch of their stores. #booksky www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...

As a Spurs fan, I am bathing in glorious schadenfreude. Will Kawhi get the Pete Rose treatment? Probably not. But will Ballmer and the Clippers? sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/...

now up for pre-order at magical jeep square.link/u/Ax2KRd0C #poetry #booksky #milestone

A real throwback from 2019 😳 early bookshop hunting days... hvwg.org/2019/06/the-...

Here's a somewhat silly little story of mine about Hemingway and Mama Fratelli from the Goonies having an arm wrestling contest from my book Both Ways Home. Enjoy! www.jameshduncan.com/blog/2023/2/...

I don't know who all is in charge of ordering pillows for major hotel chains but y'all are terrible at your jobs.

Few things feel better than waking up in Maine to a sunny day, walking through a garden, knowing you're going to sit by a lighthouse later, eat a lobster roll, and see good friends. In a world full of chaos, Maine never fails to sooth.

My write-up of the wonderful Nowhere Bookshop is over at my blog, The Bookshop Hunter. www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

Let's goooooo!

My write-up of Cheever used and rare books in San Antonio, TX is over at The Bookshop Hunter blog. www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...

jane austen did not agonise over the written word to be spit on like this

Everything bagel seasoning should be on every restaurant table.

I haven't kept my website updated with news as much as I'd like this year. So here's a post about summer happenings and Autumn plans. www.jameshduncan.com/blog/2025/8/...

If you see a lot of people living on the streets and your first thought is "We need a military crackdown on this" and not "We need to figure out how to help these people," then I've got news for you - you're a truly awful human being.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

My latest bookshop review is up, this one for A New Leaf in Pine Plains, NY www.jameshduncan.com/the-bookshop...