People steal the weirdest things. E.g., our gnarly rubber doormat.

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Just saw a wild turkey gobble angrily at a car honking at it while it was crossing ... despite the turkey having the walk light. Had the thought that the Claremont & College intersection could use for some angry gobbling. C'mon over, turkeys!

Ta-Nehisi Coates expresses here on Ezra Klein’s podcast a fundamental ethic that informs my sense even of what should be & will not be housed in a welcoming, truly curious bookstore. As ever, he gives us a lot to think about.

These bitches are like "1984 made some points"

(1) So the Secretary of Defense says that the soldiers who fought at Wounded Knee will keep their medals. In the evening they marched off up Wounded Knee Creek, and then we saw all that they had done there.

Was alerted yesterday that it had been a minute since I'd updated the curated Coming Soon portion of our website. Mon Dieu!! October is stacked. Our little store is going to be bursting at the seams. ebbooksellers.com/lists/Lovk68...

My favorite response to “Is this your new permanent location?” is “Oh, but what is permanent in this life anyway?”

a serious, ethical media industry could leverage modern op/ed sections to amplify revolutionary, thought-provoking, under-platformed ideas instead it's all been converted into lazy, engagement-chasing contrarian trolling by the least remarkable thinkers and writers imaginable

Is wishing the Times would replace Bret Stephens with a better writer & thinker a free speech issue?

Had a funny surprisingly prolonged, perplexed conversation with a co-worker today. The whole while she was talking about Jon Klassen, I kept hearing Jon Fosse. Confusion ensued.

If the horns fit ... www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

In 1958, Link Wray’s ‘Rumble’ was banned from the radio by FCC: as far as I know, it’s still the only instrumental ever banned. Recorded Live: 11/19/1974 • Winterland • San Francisco, CA

To be clear. We are against fascists. Anti-fascists, even. I gather most of you are, too. Don't let the (not at all new) scaremongering, alchemizing of disdain for *them* turn into an organization fool you. This is a great book to start with, if you're curious: ebbooksellers.com/item/UfU8gx4...

Still true.

Given the capitulatory pressure / temptation experienced by corporate media and institutions, there has arguably been no greater moment in recent history for us all to increasingly, vocally and materially support independent media.

Well- and mal-intentioned people have sometimes described bookstores' inventory decisions as censorship. To these folks, we simply insist: open a newspaper.

“Legends” is used loosely here, at least for my contribution to things. But this is going to be fun. Sparks and I are always trying to one-up each other via text message re: cool books that just arrived. Time to take the show on the road — well, next door for us at Local Economy.

Our neighors at Local Economy are hosting a ton of great events starting in October. You simply must keep an eye on their website / subscribe to their newsletter / etc. www.thelocaleconomy.com

A good thread here still ongoing here. Curiosity is not the an easy thing to make the cornerstone of your "commercial business." It doesn't turn a quick buck, let's say. There's so much money invested with far deeper pockets that compel consensus, it's hard to compete.

Remain flummoxed how we’re still facing books out on shelves. A bit of a Borges library situation going on here in 1000 sq feet.

"The school shooting industry" is one of the most grisly phrases crafted in recent memory.

The US Supreme Court’s storied history of white people determining what’s inconvenient and/or oppressive to non-white people continues.

History’s fascists are united in a lot of things, but most fundamentally in being epic losers.

New bestseller report is up. See what everybody's been reading w/out, you know, looking all nosey and such. ebbooksellers.com/lists/LkbIwt...

No single person has so influenced how we got about stocking a bookstore as Paul Yamazaki.

We've never been much of a merch store. A tote bag. A short-lived eraser. That's about it. Friends insist we're missing the $$$ boat on this, but I've tended to think not doing so was part of our outlier charm. But I also tend to over-think most things. Would you, Bluesky, buy an EBB-branded hat?

Signing pre-orders of Kalivas! my new book from @clashbooks.bsky.social at @ebbooksellers.bsky.social

A (maybe!) fun fact about us: we've somehow managed to only have 30% fewer individual titles in this space 50% smaller than our previous one. How do we do it? Mischievous magic, surely.

It’s true! We still have a few unclaimed copies coming this week, in fact!

Anybody know any good neon sign artists in the Bay Area you can recommend?

Another entry in our multi-volume journal titled, “Or, maybe we could not?” www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

Considering our local coffee consumption, we may get that up to 35%.

*gouges out eyes*

I dunno, if a small bookstore like ours can sustainably operate by not simply catering to what people are conditioned by marketing to want, surely a major opposition political party can do the same re: “what polls show.”

My advice to every anti capitalist writer is to study the means of production and make conscious tactical decisions.

Always funny to be told “You have too many good books here,” while unboxing yet more.

Sure, but hear me out: what about out of fear, rage, loathing & dread? Did anybody ask about those? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don't have occasion to tell the story of our creation very often anymore. (Prior to the fire, it's all we ever asked about.) It reminds me just how amazing our community has been to us over the years -- & still.

Tell us your university has over-invested in GenAI without telling us ...

This is so cool.

The clock is ticking for good things too, it turns out. Really looking forward to this.

“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was…”

It is beyond depressing to watch so many major universities gut the hearts and souls out of their various humanities programs.

Best damn customers in the business, I tell people. Why, they may ask or wonder. Because I know in my heart of heart that at least some small number of them will buy something like this from us. ebbooksellers.com/item/CtzAEpO...

If you’re in the Bay Area (and even beyond), just a heads up that the new community space we’re opening up in Oakland has opened up memberships ahead of our October open. We’ve got so much good programming on tap. Way more info here: www.thelocaleconomy.com

This is far more generous than Boyne himself deserves, but we are the better for it.

We'll go one further and agree by saying some of the most dynamic writing we're seeing these days is being written by trans writers. Cat, Paul Preciado, Vera Blossom, Casey Plett, hannah baer, T. Fleischmann, Jos Charles ... on and on. These are stylists par excellence.

I confess I don't entirely (or even partially) know what this book is going to be like, but I'm heading to the store tonight to check it out after being told my copy arrived. All this is to say, being a bookseller is not 100% different from being a customer. ebbooksellers.com/item/Nm-s8A9...