Brad Craft
@usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social
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Long time bookseller, writes a little, draws a lot, reads aloud in public but not unannounced
Happy Eve!
3 days ago
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Spillage
6 days ago
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From all of us working retail today, we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, etc. We will try very hard not to judge you for planning things so very badly and forgetting dear Aunt Phoebe who never didnât have you snug in her heart of hearts, you ungrateful whelp.
11 days ago
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Another day met with the requisite skepticism
13 days ago
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If Nicki Minaj was a book all the pages would be blank
13 days ago
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My reading list for understanding America 2025 edition
15 days ago
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Now more than ever. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Expanded Edition,
@libraryofamerica.bsky.social
16 days ago
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Flop flop flop. Spent a FORTUNE promoting this new iteration of Dumb & Dumber. Turns out? Nobody gives a single shit about the hardest workinâ widow in show business and the Chief Idiot Officer of CBS. NOBODY watched The Skydance Hunting Wives. DE-lighted!
18 days ago
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First NOG of the season. Rum yum.
18 days ago
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Herewith my favorite biographies, memoirs, and letters from major publishers this year â and no, I havenât finished any of the three giant books of letters.
18 days ago
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Someone asked so, okay, THIS is as close as I get to magic mostly. If you havenât you should and if you have you ought to again. The great Robertson Davies about whom no one has asked me in a decade. This is his justly famous Depford Trilogy.
19 days ago
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Front yard in winter.
20 days ago
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Chatting with a dear friend this morning and was reminded of just how absolutely shit Fantasy titles are
23 days ago
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âNo! I will not hide in the fruit cellar! Ha! You think I'm fruity, huh? I'm staying right here. This is my room and no one will drag me out of itâŠâ
24 days ago
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Itâs the Persimmon Princess a.k.a. that tart olâ winter fruit.
25 days ago
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For breakfast yesterday and today, delicious cranberry bread (and a Kay Ryan poem) from my dear friend and regular reading attendee Olivia Libby Hill. Thanks again!
27 days ago
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Thanks to the buttons and advice provided by dear Elizabeth A. Whited Liebendorfer my pants did indeed not fall off at last nightâs Holiday Reading.
28 days ago
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Bouquet of cheer from my reading last night, a gift from my coworker Elliott.
28 days ago
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Tomorrow is the day! Saturday, December 6th at 6PM PST (8PM Central, 9PM EST) I will be reading A Christmas Memory at the bookstore for the 18th year! I will also be going LIVE on my Facebook profile if you want to join us from far away.
29 days ago
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Made me fish and chips
about 1 month ago
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I was surprised at how much I genuinely admired last yearâs Brightly Shining, translated by Caroline Waight. Iâve read ALOT of Christmas stories, as you might imagine. Now from Grove and translator Diane Oatley comes Winter Stories, by the same, Ingvild RishĂži. So good
about 1 month ago
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World AIDS Day. Remembering Peter, Jimmy, Carl, so many others, famous and not. Remembering all that was lost because of bigotry, indifference, neglect, homophobia, racism, and fear. Never forget. Say their names.
about 1 month ago
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âEternity is a terrible thought. I mean, whereâs it going to end?â â Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rest in peace, poet.
#tomstoppard
#rip
#restinpeace
about 1 month ago
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A gift I got myself and through which Iâve been cruising like a queen hawt for tea, The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life, by Hugo Greenhalgh, from Atlantic Books. Fascinating story of a life lived largely before liberation, in search of love, and Guardsmen at two in the morning.
about 1 month ago
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He has achieved pie. Sweet potato. (Also already made greens, gravy, stuffing.) Nothing but turkey breast (and legs for me) and mashed potatoes to do tomorrow.
about 1 month ago
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You know what? People always had shit taste, most of âem; read bad books, loved bad music, ate bad food. Please stop moaning about The Decline of the Bloody West. Your grandma read garbage too. Read better books.
about 1 month ago
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Got a poster in the lobby. A Christmas Memory. Remember? 18th year. Hope to see YOU there. Saturday, December 6th at 6pm
about 1 month ago
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He rolled his big, beautiful, Bette Davis eyes, drawled some idiotic dialogue in an accent that was never not thick as spÀtzle, and was just gay as a Christmas goose in chop frills. Köstlichkeit! I will miss the campy, doe-eyed anarchy of Udo Kier. Ruhe in Frieden, meine Königin.
#rip
#udokier
about 1 month ago
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âCause nothinâ says we down with all the androgynous K-pop cuties, brah, like a 62 year old man in bibs and with a thick book.
about 1 month ago
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Why do I (so far) remain committed to Solvej Balleâs septology? The protagonist, stuck perhaps forever in an endlessly repeating November 18th is or was a used book dealer. Thereâs that. The Calculation of Volume from New Directions, translated by Sophie Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
about 1 month ago
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âUmm Hassan is dead.â Good start right there. Epic novel of the Palestinian exile in Lebanon. Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury (1948 - 2024,) translated by Humphrey Davies for Archipelago Books
about 2 months ago
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Couldnât think who the passive protagonist of Szalayâs Booker winning Flesh reminded me of⊠Chance the gardener from Being There, maybe? Then it hit me. Pete Davidsonâs Chad from SNL.
about 2 months ago
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Oh, Jonathan where are you? Why are you not here yet?!
about 2 months ago
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Ordered myself the hardcover. Bless Gordon S. Wood
about 2 months ago
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December 6th at 6pm. 18th year reading Truman Capoteâs A Christmas Memory aloud at the bookstore (also live on Facebook)
about 2 months ago
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From New Vessel Press, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden, My Dreadful Body, by Azerbaijani novelist Egana Djabbarova. âAccording to my motherâs strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.â Delightful. (Comes out April 7, 2026.)
about 2 months ago
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âWho, or why, or which, or what is the Akond of Swat?â Was there ever a likelier time for nonsense? And so to dear Lear we turn.
about 2 months ago
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If you can read a chapter heading like âHorrible Death of Beaudrot and Swiss Soldiers,â or Chapter XXI, âIs Sentimental, but Short,â from The Newcomes and not want to keep reading, then we will never understand each other, my friend.
about 2 months ago
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I like her books at least as much as her Dadâs. How unlikely is that?! True though. Sheâs that good.
@susancheever.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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It is a constant source of continuous amazement to me that I should live to see in 2025 the entirety of the NYT opinion page staffed by a DAR ladies garden club circa 1951.
about 2 months ago
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Thereâs another winner from yesterday who makes me very, very happy. Australian Helen Garner has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, specifically for her How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998. Sheâs the first diarist to win.
about 2 months ago
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Falling forward falling back
2 months ago
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Consider the humble Medjool date. I only mention because if you grew up where and when I did you probably only saw dates in that round tin at Christmas or in a bread. I am just amazed at how far on the downslope I had to travel before I had the sense to try things I didnât like when I was four.
2 months ago
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Reading Harper Leeâs juvenilia I learned her favorite book was Pickettâs History of Alabama. Iâm game. Ordered a copy.
2 months ago
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Lunch with Lettrrs
#johnupdike
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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Liver and onions (my fave) with fresh green beans and rice and I roasted a stupid bunch of red and gold beets (along with heads of garlic and parsnips and carrots for later) and then finished the beets in a pan with butter, herbs, and some of the roasted garlic. And now tv with the beloved husband.
2 months ago
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Dude. Harper Lee â in a damned ballgown?! Way to not represent.
2 months ago
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Kathy Burke, A Mind of My Own, on audio book, read by the author? Perfect
2 months ago
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Yeah, Daphne Du Maurier spooky stories! Perfect October reading from
@scribnerbooks.bsky.social
2 months ago
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