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@exhaustdata.bsky.social

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Bookstore proprietor and I also do marketing for Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive / Open Letter

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James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Aug 23

What’s up? Kinda forgot about bsky lol

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Aug 23

It was one thing that my two year old wants to listen to Weezer’s Beverly Hills all the time, but now he has started calling it “daddy’s song.” It is a thankless job being a parent

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 28

Mark Polizzotti’s introductory note on his new translation of Nadja, where he gets into the fate of the real woman that Breton wrote about, is just devastating. I am completely heartbroken good god

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 28

D'Aulaires greek myths on our pride display—if you know you know

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 28

Pride happens right outside the bookstore today, and I am considering “free brick with purchase of the Stonewall Reader” as our special thing

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 28

That really is the entire text lol

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 28

I know that extremely wordy bumper stickers are way overdone, but I just can’t shake this idea

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 25

Read an early version of Andy Anderegg’s PLUM back in 2023, and am so psyched to finally have my hands on a real copy.

Let this book break your heart immediately @hubcitypress.bsky.social

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 25

Eleven sexual harassment accusations, and a resignation in disgrace, and Cuomo still got 30% of the vote. What the fuck is wrong with a lot of people?

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 24

10 years ago I was a real anarcho-misanthrope who loved to pick fights with the DSA set, saying things like “lmaoooo you still believe voting can enact real change?” and now I’m like “I’m glad all my friends voted early for Zohran”

Maybe you really DO get more conservative as you get older!

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 24

David Lynch begins his memoir by completely straight-facedly saying that he remembers being a baby and that he was born knowing how to whistle, and you just sort of go “yeah that makes sense”

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 22

In 2012 it seemed like every single person in New York City was reading The Art of Fielding. On Goodreads it has 30,000 more ratings than Infinite Jest, and almost 3x as many readers as 2666. And yet it’s just completely gone. Never discussed. Zero impact.

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 22

Even for America the Islamophobia seems particularly out of control right now

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 17

Looking back on it there was a definite sexual energy surrounding the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen and its fans. Parasocial polycule

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 14

Last night we let the Éditions Gallimard talk

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 13

I LIVED

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 12

I got involved in books out of a love for art, but I stayed because I love setting up folding chairs

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 12

Two hours left until I’m reading stuff I made with my brain in front of real human beings for the first time ever and I feel like a mountain lion in a suburban neighborhood waiting to be hunted down and tranquilized

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 11

End of an era end of the world level stuff

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 11

I don’t even know what to do with myself

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 7

Fittingly this is the question I would ask myself about writing an article for the New York Times

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 7

Spilled my iced coffee all down the front of my Sabrina Carpenter shirt and I don’t think I can be upset about it because, well,

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 5

Leftist guy getting fomo after seeing all of this vicious political infighting

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 5

Remembered a guy I knew when I was a teenager who very confidently said that “Yo La Tengo” was Spanish for “Yes I Have It.” Added an extra word out of nowhere. I’m sure he works at McKinsey or something now

James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · Jun 4

Edmund White is a huge loss. When we had him at Book Culture in 2018, it was probably the most reverent audience I’ve ever seen at a reading. You could quite literally look around the room and see how much his work meant to people