James
@exhaustdata.bsky.social
Bookstore proprietor and I also do marketing for Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive / Open Letter
We have been doing 80s nostalgia for longer than the duration of the actual 1980s! Stranger Things has been going on for long that it is nostalgic for itself! Please god just show me anything new
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We have been doing 80s nostalgia for longer than the duration of the actual 1980s! Stranger Things has been going on for long that it is nostalgic for itself! Please god just show me anything new
Sally Rooney if you cannot publish your future novels due to your unfailing support for the Palestinian people, you can just email your novel directly to me
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sally Rooney if you cannot publish your future novels due to your unfailing support for the Palestinian people, you can just email your novel directly to me
Despite being a National Book Award finalist, and already showing up on a couple of year-end lists, I do not know a single other person who has read/is reading Daanje’s The Remembered Soldier, which is a real shame because so far it is capital-L Literature
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Despite being a National Book Award finalist, and already showing up on a couple of year-end lists, I do not know a single other person who has read/is reading Daanje’s The Remembered Soldier, which is a real shame because so far it is capital-L Literature
Okay NOW it’s about to start feeling like a holiday
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Okay NOW it’s about to start feeling like a holiday
You can listen to Macy’s Day Parade by Green Day with one headphone in even though you are no longer 13 years old. It’s not illegal.
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
You can listen to Macy’s Day Parade by Green Day with one headphone in even though you are no longer 13 years old. It’s not illegal.
Thanksgiving was always my dad’s favorite holiday and it’s always a little strange that he never really got to see any of the things that I now call my life
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Thanksgiving was always my dad’s favorite holiday and it’s always a little strange that he never really got to see any of the things that I now call my life
Very few of those 100 books were notable, to me
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Very few of those 100 books were notable, to me
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
August 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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
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
June 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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
D'Aulaires greek myths on our pride display—if you know you know
June 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
D'Aulaires greek myths on our pride display—if you know you know
Pride happens right outside the bookstore today, and I am considering “free brick with purchase of the Stonewall Reader” as our special thing
June 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Pride happens right outside the bookstore today, and I am considering “free brick with purchase of the Stonewall Reader” as our special thing
I know that extremely wordy bumper stickers are way overdone, but I just can’t shake this idea
June 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I know that extremely wordy bumper stickers are way overdone, but I just can’t shake this idea
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
Let this book break your heart immediately @hubcitypress.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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
Let this book break your heart immediately @hubcitypress.bsky.social
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?
June 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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?
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!
Maybe you really DO get more conservative as you get older!
June 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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!
Maybe you really DO get more conservative as you get older!
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”
June 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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”
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.
June 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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.
Even for America the Islamophobia seems particularly out of control right now
June 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Even for America the Islamophobia seems particularly out of control right now
Looking back on it there was a definite sexual energy surrounding the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen and its fans. Parasocial polycule
June 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Looking back on it there was a definite sexual energy surrounding the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen and its fans. Parasocial polycule
Last night we let the Éditions Gallimard talk
June 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Last night we let the Éditions Gallimard talk
I got involved in books out of a love for art, but I stayed because I love setting up folding chairs
June 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I got involved in books out of a love for art, but I stayed because I love setting up folding chairs
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
June 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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
End of an era end of the world level stuff
June 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
End of an era end of the world level stuff
I don’t even know what to do with myself
June 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I don’t even know what to do with myself
Fittingly this is the question I would ask myself about writing an article for the New York Times
June 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Fittingly this is the question I would ask myself about writing an article for the New York Times