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"I would argue that bookstores are more important in the sprawl of L.A. than in a walkable city like San Francisco or New York … I came to California, the land of reinvention, to shed light on the literature at the door. It’s here," Kate Gale, @redhenpress.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Los Angeles is a great literary city (no matter what New Yorkers say)
The city's iconic bookstores remain essential third places for Angelenos — sanctuaries that pull us away from screen-surfing and back into our minds.
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September 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
"I would argue that bookstores are more important in the sprawl of L.A. than in a walkable city like San Francisco or New York … I came to California, the land of reinvention, to shed light on the literature at the door. It’s here," Kate Gale, @redhenpress.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
September 18, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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I wrote on Emily St. John Mandel's latest, "Exit Party," for @bookpostusa.bsky.social
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Anthony Domestico on Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel’s popular books meet a yearning for post-apocalyptic fiction even as they wonder how to have such a thing
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September 10, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I wrote on Emily St. John Mandel's latest, "Exit Party," for @bookpostusa.bsky.social
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Hear Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, and Larry Pine doing a reading of Wallace Shawn's play The Designated Mourner 10/11 at @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Live jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/t...
The Designated Mourner
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September 9, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Hear Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, and Larry Pine doing a reading of Wallace Shawn's play The Designated Mourner 10/11 at @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Live jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/t...
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My first time writing for Book Post - about the history of the hobo, a uniquely American migrant.
. @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social reflects on how a new history of the "Hobo" broadened her image from "jumbled and wrong . . . cultural references" to that of a "highly skilled seasonal laborer": books.substack.com/p/review-ste... @princetownpress.bsky.social
Review: Stephanie deGooyer on Hobos
The rootless, unprotected seasonal workers who were America’s first climate migrants
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September 6, 2026 at 8:33 AM
My first time writing for Book Post - about the history of the hobo, a uniquely American migrant.
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The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die.
September 8, 2026 at 5:34 AM
The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die.
Book being read at my gate at the airport: Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
Book being read on my train: Zizek, Zero Point
Book being read on my train: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, by a girl with impressively long and complex nails
September 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Book being read at my gate at the airport: Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
Book being read on my train: Zizek, Zero Point
Book being read on my train: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, by a girl with impressively long and complex nails
Books being read on my train: Mob Psycho 100 Vol I (bespectacled tween)
September 3, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Book being read on my train: Zizek, Zero Point
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Emerson on AI, in 1845:
“Art requires a living soul. The dunces believe that, as it must, at any one moment, work in one direction, an automaton will do as well, or nearly; & they beseech the Artist to say, ‘In what direction?’ ‘In every direction,’ he replies, ‘in any direction, or in no direction, but it must be alive.’”
September 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Emerson on AI, in 1845:
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I have bought prints of conflict photography from photojournalists for a few years because an ex of mine told me how hard it was for them to get insured and how badly they’re supported
September 3, 2026 at 3:25 AM
I have bought prints of conflict photography from photojournalists for a few years because an ex of mine told me how hard it was for them to get insured and how badly they’re supported
Our visit to the Berry Center last fall for Kentucky Arts and Letters Day, where Wendell Berry read from his beautiful last book, Marce Catlett books.substack.com/p/notebook-1...
Notebook: (1) Days of Arts and Letters, Two Southern Festivals
Keeping it going: The Berry Center’s Kentucky Arts and Letters Day and the Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books
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September 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Our visit to the Berry Center last fall for Kentucky Arts and Letters Day, where Wendell Berry read from his beautiful last book, Marce Catlett books.substack.com/p/notebook-1...
Honoring the ongoing work of the Berry Center to foster a culture of agriculture books.substack.com/p/announcing...
Announcing Our Fall 2025 Partner Bookstore: (I) The Berry Center in New Castle, Kentucky!
Culture and agriculture
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September 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Honoring the ongoing work of the Berry Center to foster a culture of agriculture books.substack.com/p/announcing...
Wendell Berry's reflections on art and place and community have been central to our thinking at Book Post about how to build a thriving life of ideas. We were grateful to publish his work & celebrate it through our former bookselling partner The Berry Center books.substack.com/p/diary-wend...
Diary: Wendell Berry, The Writer Going Home
Kentucky was a place that I could not leave behind simply by going to another place
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September 1, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Wendell Berry's reflections on art and place and community have been central to our thinking at Book Post about how to build a thriving life of ideas. We were grateful to publish his work & celebrate it through our former bookselling partner The Berry Center books.substack.com/p/diary-wend...
Book being read on my train: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, by a girl with impressively long and complex nails
Books being read on my train: Mob Psycho 100 Vol I (bespectacled tween)
Books being read on my train: SPQR by Mary Beard, library book of Red Rising, and this mystery with a kind of @versobooks.bsky.social vibe
August 28, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Book being read on my train: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, by a girl with impressively long and complex nails
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Given how quickly Google capitulated on the Gulf of America garbage, it will be interesting to watch how they handle Lake Ontario. It’s a perfect 1:1 comparison to measure change over time in institutions’ willingness to bow and scrape to Trump
August 27, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Given how quickly Google capitulated on the Gulf of America garbage, it will be interesting to watch how they handle Lake Ontario. It’s a perfect 1:1 comparison to measure change over time in institutions’ willingness to bow and scrape to Trump
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Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
August 27, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
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“Throughout her 58 years as a proud member in good standing of Local 257, she set the gold standard for supporting her band and fellow musicians. Dolly and her team consistently filed AFM union contracts for gigs, sessions, and tours".
AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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August 25, 2026 at 9:24 PM
“Throughout her 58 years as a proud member in good standing of Local 257, she set the gold standard for supporting her band and fellow musicians. Dolly and her team consistently filed AFM union contracts for gigs, sessions, and tours".
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1. Accept an exceedingly modest advance and then sell a few thousand copies. 2/end
August 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM
1. Accept an exceedingly modest advance and then sell a few thousand copies. 2/end
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Tonight I learned that “Why Christians Should Be Leftists” is the third of my three books to sell through its advance in the first year. this is terribly gratifying news. To celebrate, I’m going to give a brief master course in how to sell through your advance. 1/?
August 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Tonight I learned that “Why Christians Should Be Leftists” is the third of my three books to sell through its advance in the first year. this is terribly gratifying news. To celebrate, I’m going to give a brief master course in how to sell through your advance. 1/?
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looking forward to Woke IV: A New Hope
August 22, 2026 at 7:15 PM
looking forward to Woke IV: A New Hope
Book Post author and Anthropic case plaintiff @charlesgraeber.bsky.social in @nytimes.com today on the fertile irony that AI needs real authors, whom it’s running out of business, to provide uncontaminated training for future AI www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...
Opinion | Even Millions of Stolen Books Cannot Satisfy Ravenous A.I. Chatbots (Gift Article)
The model collapse scenario threatens to wipe out whatever gains chatbots like Claude enjoyed from being trained on books in the first place.
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August 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Book Post author and Anthropic case plaintiff @charlesgraeber.bsky.social in @nytimes.com today on the fertile irony that AI needs real authors, whom it’s running out of business, to provide uncontaminated training for future AI www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...
Books being read on my train: Mob Psycho 100 Vol I (bespectacled tween)
Books being read on my train: SPQR by Mary Beard, library book of Red Rising, and this mystery with a kind of @versobooks.bsky.social vibe
August 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Books being read on my train: Mob Psycho 100 Vol I (bespectacled tween)