SALT LAKES, a glorious debut by @cetracey.bsky.social, is out next week. Catch her on the road, including at P&T Knitwear in NYC on 3/18 with Jake Bittle...

If you’re in DC tomorrow and want to see a lot of bookish people in one place, I have good news:

If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...

I'll say more before too long, but for now: Thanks to anyone who has ever read and supported the Post's books coverage.

Join author of A COMPLICATED PASSION Carrie Rickey as she introduces a screening of THE GLEANERS AND I tomorrow at the Film Forum in New York City at 6:15pm. filmforum.org/film/the-gle...

Happy birthday, Delmore Schwartz

Book buyers of the Midwest, we've got ya covered at @wwnorton.com

a great opportunity "We are pleased to invite distinguished writers with an interest in serving as the next Paris Review Visiting Professor of Literature at the Bard Prison Initiative to apply for the role. Please do spread the word!" www.theparisreview.org/about/opport...

"It wasn’t designed with tomorrow in mind"

Wonderful and moving tribute by @timadamswrites.bsky.social to Rachel Cooke, the brilliant Observer journalist who also frequently lit up the pages of the Guardian Weekly, who has died at the age of 56. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Writers! Applications for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award are open. This year, we've increased the prize to $15,000 to account for the higher cost of pasta. Apply now: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...

Coming in March from @wwnorton.com...

Don't we all love looking, as a wonderful poet observed, at dead things? A good season for that perspective. Thanks to @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social @mattweiland.bsky.social @therumpus.net. Companion piece from a WIP appearing soon in @revelliterary.bsky.social #booksky therumpus.net/2025/11/10/t...

Congrats to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on IS A RIVER ALIVE? being named one of the 24 nominees for the Goodreads Choice Award in Nonfiction! Vote here... www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...

Great "live" thread on the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago today. cc @petejohnsimon.bsky.social

A celebration of the opening of the first bridge, from the St. Paul Weekly Minnesotian (sic), January 27, 1855:

Most Minnesotan photo of the day: The view inside the Moorhead, MN bureau of @mprnews.org. All credit to @claymasters.bsky.social.

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A few years ago, @garyhornseth.bsky.social and I wrote an entire researched local-history article about the Minneapolis phone book that Robert Redford pulls off the shelf at the Washington Post in that scene from "All the President's Men"

I wrote a book called "Stories Are Weapons" which is a history of psychological war in the United States. In it, I describe how the US military came to a simple definition of rhetoric used for destructive purposes in war (so-called psyops) vs. for democratic debate. Want to know what it is? (1/3)

Alaska reentry has its ups and downs but amazing reads are an up.

"the jarring juxtapositions whiplash the viewer between bleak slapstick (the car is on the roof!) and horror (the car is on *the roof*)" --Nathaniel Rich on Richard Misrach's photos of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath

Let's see... $5.50 in 1965 was worth $17.21 in 1983. A ticket to the 1983 Prince show for Minnesota Dance Theatre at First Ave cost $25.00. Therefore Prince was 45% better than the Beatles.

Finally: the All That and a Bag of Chips scandal

Delighted to receive my galley of @cetracey.bsky.social’s forthcoming masterpiece on our planet’s imperiled salt lakes—“a debut as gorgeous and vibrant as the lakes she loves,” as I put it in my blurb. Enamored of that pastel cover so evocative of Utah. Preorder below! bookshop.org/p/books/salt...

On this day in 1958, Art Kane photographed 57 musicians at 17 East 126th Street in NYC for Esquire magazine. It was a Great Day in Harlem, 67 years ago today. Sonny Rollins is the only musician from this photo still living. #SonnyRollinsBridge

Speaking of water books... "What his brilliant colleague Richard Powers has done for trees and oceans, Robert Macfarlane here does for embattled waterways."―Pico Iyer, @airmail.news

Out early next year: SALT LAKES by @cetracey.bsky.social. A book that captures the nature world and the human one with rare clarity and feeling.

Out in paperback this week: the celebrated biography of Agnès Varda by @carrierickey.bsky.social. "Enthralling."―The New Yorker "Intellectually satisfying and inspiring."―WSJ "One of the best books ever written about the intersection between a director’s personal life and their work."―IndieWire

Today in: can I sneak read this book at the front desk galley mail: A Guardian and a Thief by @meghamaj.bsky.social coming from @aaknopf.bsky.social in October. Be nice to your future self and preorder a copy today! islandbooks.com/book/9780593...

The @apnews.com says that its ending its weekly book reviews.

This is delightful. Would pay premium for a social media platform that consisted only of people suggesting books for Anne Trubek's mom forever.

Worth reading again: John Lanchester's profile of the BLS (which also appeared in Michael Lewis's recent book, "Who Is Government"). Gift link: wapo.st/4l7AJjR

"In fact, the crowd was so quiet [hearing "Purple Rain" for the first time], producer David Z had to tweak the recording. 'I cheated and put a crowd from the Minnesota Vikings in the audience track.'"

42 years ago today, on Aug. 3, 1983, Prince "and Friends" (soon to be known as The Revolution) performed songs for the first time that would appear a year later on the soundtrack album and in the movie "Purple Rain."

In the fifties the covers of Anchor Books were printed with a flat color process that limited them to three colors and black, each printed separately. Edward Gorey turned this limitation into a virtue and many of his covers, like this one, have a distinct Japanese woodcut flavor.

prestige Sumerian myth

Some great worms of recent cultural history 1. Lowly Worm, in Richard Scarry BUSYTOWN books (1960) 2. Slimey, Oscar the Grouch's pet worm on SESAME STREET (1971) 3. Sandworms, in Frank Herbert DUNE (1965) 4. The ones in Carlo Ginzburg THE CHEESE AND THE WORMS (1976)

This month, the #SciFriBookClub has been reading “Frostbite” by Nicola Twilley, a book about the hidden global network that keeps food cool. Join us this Thursday, July 31, at 8:00 PM ET for our "Ask the Author" virtual event. Come with your queries and wonderings. RSVP Here: buff.ly/BKwPX0Q

What is "fish & amp chips"? It looks like someone screwed up somewhere in the signmaking process and included the HTML code for ampersand: "fish & chips"

HAPPENING TONIGHT: If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, come join us at the @cwclub.bsky.social for an important conversation on SHADE, with journo @samkbloch.bsky.social! Bloch’s new book, “Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource,” expands on an article published in Places in 2019.

What a line, from this 2002 classic: "Most of the victims, like Joseph Lazcko, came into contact with the two things that might have saved them, air conditioning and attention from state agencies, only after their bodies were delivered to the morgue." thebaffler.com/salvos/heat-...

Congrats to one-of-a-kind Ed Park on his new book

Cover Spotlight!✨ Check out the stunning cover of the memoir A Silent Treatment by Jeannie Vanasco (9.9.25), designed by Beth Steidle! ✨ “Unspeakably compelling.” —Ed Park ✨ More info and preorder: bit.ly/SilentTreatm...

Only in America does elementary school entail the same things as prison: putting on a clear backpack, passing through metal detectors, then spending the day locked in with armed police and attack drones all around. Just so that adults can get assault rifles with no background check or waiting period

The Fonseca tour! Event links to come soon.

Pruning an elm tree Malden, Massachusetts c. 1896