It was one thing that my two year old wants to listen to Weezer’s Beverly Hills all the time, but now he has started calling it “daddy’s song.” It is a thankless job being a parent

Mark Polizzotti’s introductory note on his new translation of Nadja, where he gets into the fate of the real woman that Breton wrote about, is just devastating. I am completely heartbroken good god

D'Aulaires greek myths on our pride display—if you know you know

Pride happens right outside the bookstore today, and I am considering “free brick with purchase of the Stonewall Reader” as our special thing

I know that extremely wordy bumper stickers are way overdone, but I just can’t shake this idea

Read an early version of Andy Anderegg’s PLUM back in 2023, and am so psyched to finally have my hands on a real copy. Let this book break your heart immediately @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Eleven sexual harassment accusations, and a resignation in disgrace, and Cuomo still got 30% of the vote. What the fuck is wrong with a lot of people?

10 years ago I was a real anarcho-misanthrope who loved to pick fights with the DSA set, saying things like “lmaoooo you still believe voting can enact real change?” and now I’m like “I’m glad all my friends voted early for Zohran” Maybe you really DO get more conservative as you get older!

David Lynch begins his memoir by completely straight-facedly saying that he remembers being a baby and that he was born knowing how to whistle, and you just sort of go “yeah that makes sense”

In 2012 it seemed like every single person in New York City was reading The Art of Fielding. On Goodreads it has 30,000 more ratings than Infinite Jest, and almost 3x as many readers as 2666. And yet it’s just completely gone. Never discussed. Zero impact.

Even for America the Islamophobia seems particularly out of control right now

Looking back on it there was a definite sexual energy surrounding the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen and its fans. Parasocial polycule

Last night we let the Éditions Gallimard talk

I got involved in books out of a love for art, but I stayed because I love setting up folding chairs

Two hours left until I’m reading stuff I made with my brain in front of real human beings for the first time ever and I feel like a mountain lion in a suburban neighborhood waiting to be hunted down and tranquilized

End of an era end of the world level stuff

I don’t even know what to do with myself

Fittingly this is the question I would ask myself about writing an article for the New York Times

Spilled my iced coffee all down the front of my Sabrina Carpenter shirt and I don’t think I can be upset about it because, well,

Leftist guy getting fomo after seeing all of this vicious political infighting

Remembered a guy I knew when I was a teenager who very confidently said that “Yo La Tengo” was Spanish for “Yes I Have It.” Added an extra word out of nowhere. I’m sure he works at McKinsey or something now

Edmund White is a huge loss. When we had him at Book Culture in 2018, it was probably the most reverent audience I’ve ever seen at a reading. You could quite literally look around the room and see how much his work meant to people

Wes Anderson taking five years off between films and getting fucking ripped. Like completely shredded. Showing up to the premier of his new movie in a tweed suit with no sleeves. Suddenly nobody thinks his quaint homage to Soviet animation is quite so funny anymore…

It’s my bookstore and I say that we’re listening to the entire Promise Ring discography, yes even “Wood/Water”

The language part of the brain has very clearly turned on in my toddler’s head, and he learns 100 new words a day, which is unbelievable to watch, but apparently this is called the “language explosion” which is such a stupid undignified name for a small miracle

Do you think astronauts come back to earth like foreign exchange students, starting every conversation with “so when I was in space…….”

Ugh I wish I could review your novel, but I’ve got my hands cupped together like this because I caught this yucky bug a minute ago, and if I try to hold a book right now it’ll get away. It’s really a public service I’m performing here.

Had a dream that Elena Ferrante was doing her first ever public appearance, but it was television interview with Jimmy Fallon

Every time I try to explain the concept of William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops to someone new, I get slightly and progressively worse at it

Starting the movement to call Jon “the Foss” like how people call Springsteen “the boss”

One of my most controversial opinions is that the internet is still fun

Alright folks here are the top selling books for the first month of Recluse Books: 1) Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich 2) Worry by Alexandra Tanner 3) The Employees by Olga Ravn 4) Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro 5) Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados

Changed a tire on the side of the road by myself but you’d never be able to tell because I was already covered in grease and soot from being on my phone

Stereolab are a band whose catalog you have go through backwards because they’re so forward thinking that you have to start with the full picture, and then see how the various layers developed over time. New album fits the process perfectly

Didn’t want to listen to the new Stereolab until I knew I could give it my full attention and so I got up at 5:30am on a Saturday. If you’re ever curious about what having a toddler is like, this is it

If I think too much about David Wojnarowicz I start to cry

I’ve seen Jeff Rosenstock side projects you’ve never heard of at DIY spaces you could never imagine. What does Kudrow mean to you? Where was free candy? Put the five dollars(suggested) in the bucket when it comes around

At some point in the last couple years Penguin added language to their copyright pages thanking readers for only enjoying authorized, copyrighted versions of their books, and not scans distributed via the internet. Loser shit lmao

Madeline Gins, instructions for a “group novel”

Totes are in

Just had a meeting about the first Fum d’Estampa book that we are publishing since absorbing them as an imprint, and the pitch is: “what if you used Southern/Appalachian contractions to do James Joyce language experiments?” Really wild, unique thing it’s attempting

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North Texas dust cloud sunrise. 150 years ago, my great-great-great ancestor (mother’s side) came through these parts on a horse. I am related to him in name, but connected to him by sweating in the Fort Worth heat, wearing a stupid hat

Hands clasped behind my back, gazing up at the menu at the ice cream place with the thoughtful solemnity that one might contemplate the weathered frieze of a Greek temple

Today I am reading 104 internship applications, and I already know that there’s going to come a moment where I will want to say “fuck it” and accept all of them, creating a locust-like swarm of twenty two year olds that I can unleash like a biblical plague unto your inbox

Abortions are healthcare, yes, but also people should be able to get them whenever they want for whatever reasons

Something that’s been making me feel insane recently is the reputation for the 1990s as the Chill Vibes Decade like it wasn’t built atop a century of unending horror

Rainy Friday night, closing the bookstore by myself, listening to a forgotten slowcore band for whom I might be the top listener on earth. This is what it’s all about

Before the end of the year we will witness a full Clarice Lispector backlash. Surface level “she’s overrated, and everyone reads her performatively” stuff, but it’s going to happen nonetheless

Olivia Rodrigo is reading Lispector, Lorde is an Ernaux fan, so Sabrina Carpenter does the name Carole Maso mean anything to you? If not we can change that