If you watch Grey’s Anatomy with cc on you can enjoy one of my favorite acts of microfeminism: none of the doctors they page in the background have traditionally masculine first names. Everyone they page could easily, arguably be a woman ♥️ I love you, Shonda

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

just saw robert frost referred to as bobby chills and I will never be the same

less a book buyer and more a rachel reid inventory manager (not complaining, these are serious aaWOOOOgah sales numbers, I’ll take em)

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Mayor Mamdani is at the 5 alarm, 3 building fire that broke out in my neighborhood this morning and my first thought was Eric Adams Would Never (derogatory). ♥️ I love you, Ridgewood.

Classic January uptick in Body Keeps the Score sales ✅

Respect to the PRH marketing assistant that got the catalog copy on Papa Mamdani’s 2005 book updated within days of the inauguration

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Watching publishers abandon the mass market pbk in real time. I am taking NOTES I will NOT FORGIVE nor forget this 😡

12/23 is a ridiculous day to post about indie bookstore day but imma do it anyway- you know we’ve had a new Emily Henry book out the week of IBD for each of the last 3 years but there is no new EH scheduled for 2026? Leaving a big hole for IBD (4/25/26)!

am having a rough go of things this week but at least I’m not the inventory manager at Harper who ran out of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn wk 2 December 🙄 way to hedge your bets, no telling if that one was ever going to sell so this was a smart move I’m sure

idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see

I complain every year that no one makes my life easier by putting the full NYT top 100 books into one catalog/ grid, figured out this year that I could just… do it myself. So here it is: www.edelweiss.plus?catalogID=53...

No one does it like @mysteriousbookshop.com

Am buying from a spring catalog where one title had “Bestselling Comps” as its FIRST key selling point in the markup notes. You picked the comps! And then said hey look how bestselling these comps are! Anyone could do this for any book! There is a reason no one does!

Dick Cheney: Over my dead body. NYC: Don’t mind if I do god I love you, New York. So proud of us for this one.

Not enough carmen sandiego jokes about the Louvre heist. Hit it rockapella

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

This is the very first appearance of Dr. Teeth, on March 18, 1975, promoting the upcoming MUPPET SHOW: SEX & VIOLENCE special. It’s remarkable to see how comfortable Jim Henson was both performing & improvising this brand new character, & just how fully-formed he already was...

Posited: children’s Booker was invented to give to Katherine Rundell (I approve, for the record)

book covers featuring the muppets: thread

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists. I ❤️ Portland

New power animal just dropped

How’s everyone’s Nobel prize betting odds work group chats going

store hasn’t opened yet, have been listening to Bush’s Machinehead on repeat for 2 hours, already used this gif in my work slack twice this morning things are going great also what year is it

still slaps

love this ♥️

Earnest discussion about the differences between your favorite muppet and the muppet you are most similar to really bringing a lot to the surface here at the strand offices today

🚨new George Saunders digital ARC on edelweiss 🚨

My Year of Rest & Relaxation sales more than doubled last week vs the previous. What are we doing here, girls in sundresses? I thought he we were past this?

Saw a 12yo in a Blink-182 shirt and stopped dead in the middle of the sidewalk on e 11th. This is the absolute value of a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac and I don’t like it.

Am up to book 3 in Thursday Murder Club and this run of internal monologue Ron has during his couples’ massage is about the most fun I’ve had in a book in a decade

6:45am crying on the L train at the Zohran goes to a Wu-Tang show clip how bout you

Got bag checked getting on the subway this morning like it’s 2011 or something

Ordered more books for the store at the news of Ozzy Osbourne’s death than I did for the Pope but at least I’ll finally have something to talk about at confession

Tim Weiner: Here’s my first book in 17 years! PRH: {immediately runs out of legacy of ashes}

Reverse Ebenezer Scrooge: he's a queer socialist librarian who hates having to close on the 4th of July because he knows people in the community need the wi-fi and air conditioning

we did not give “stormin through the party like my name is El Niño” nearly enough credit as a song opener but there’s time to fix that, friends

Have been responding “eat shit” to any vote Cu0mo texts or phone calls for weeks but since they’ve really ramped up in the last week I’ve had to as well, so now I just start reciting poetry as soon as I pick up the phone

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

Yesterday I got to hear @lexiatwork.bsky.social describe My Sister, the Serial Killer as “Jacob Have I Loved with knives” and fully lost my mind. Top that, handsellers. The bar has been SET.

If I worked for Penguin I would try to figure out a way to make custom meme covers of Penguin Classics.

I know there’s a metric ton of menopause books releasing this year but I choose to wait for American Girl Co.’s Care & Keeping of You Vol 3

I (a nerd) love getting JSTOR’s suggested readings email newsletter and today’s had a wonderful Pride roundup, all free and with accessible scholarly research ♥️ daily.jstor.org/lgbtq-pride-...

Edmund White dies during Pride with his last published work being The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir, what an effing legend.

We wind up talking about Frankenstein every day at work and everyone else’s comments are getting progressively more erudite as time goes on while I’m just “he’s just a big, mixed-up guy!” in every convo, not that that is inaccurate but still

“Back in my day stuffed animals were actually animals” did not get as big a laugh as you would think out of my coworker grinding to fulfill web orders for JellyCat pancakes

“I vote for the one with the horse on the cover but this ain’t about me, I guess” -trying to get the work slack to pick an Alice Notley book to display