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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2h

Congrats, bud 🍻🍻🍻

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 13h

This store is pure magic, and so are the incredible talents who run it! What a wonderful place to be!! 😍 We even had a ghost in attendance; a lovely (but empty) rocking chair began to rock of its own accord! Definitely visit this *spirited* store!

Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you to @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE event and book signing tonight. Leanna is a force of nature, making dark history come alive through a passionate understanding and appreciation of the gothic tradition. Thank you Leanna & thank you to everyone who took part tonight ❤️

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 14h

John Carpenter’s Mystic Pizza

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 14h

John Carpenter's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 15h

John Carpenter’s Lawrence of Arabia

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 15h

Leanna is wonderful and you should buy her & Andrea’s book yesterday because it’s fascinating and fun in equal measure. Genre study, folklore & history retelling, personal essay, ghost stories and tour guides all in one

Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you to @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE event and book signing tonight. Leanna is a force of nature, making dark history come alive through a passionate understanding and appreciation of the gothic tradition. Thank you Leanna & thank you to everyone who took part tonight ❤️

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 20h

Reposting for the afternoon people, the middle-day-walkers: I got a newsletter now and a little story to go with it, check it out

John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 22h

I've decided I'm gonna give a newsletter a proper go again on Buttondown as I try to structure my life around consistent literary work + the store. To celebrate I've got a new flash fiction story about men who make TikTok skits about their exes not appreciating them:
buttondown.com/chrostek/arc...

Tokyo Drifting Into Your Inbox (With A Fun Little Short Story At The End As A Treat)

What’s good, pals? I’ve decided to do a newsletter. Like all things with me, it will be sporadic, unorganized, likely infrequent but full of grit and...

buttondown.com

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 21h

LATHE OF HEAVEN is in my DNA, I don't know if FEAST could have come out of me without it. Le Guin forever

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 21h

Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 22h

the children (me) yearn for the mines (developing new habits that enable a rich, full life)

John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 22h

I've decided I'm gonna give a newsletter a proper go again on Buttondown as I try to structure my life around consistent literary work + the store. To celebrate I've got a new flash fiction story about men who make TikTok skits about their exes not appreciating them:
buttondown.com/chrostek/arc...

Tokyo Drifting Into Your Inbox (With A Fun Little Short Story At The End As A Treat)

What’s good, pals? I’ve decided to do a newsletter. Like all things with me, it will be sporadic, unorganized, likely infrequent but full of grit and...

buttondown.com

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 22h

oh absolutely

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 23h

okay what if we gave them large extendable solar panel wings so they looked like metal cherubim sailing across the highways, that'd be sick

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 23h

yearn for a future where we can primarily use tiny electric buggies to zip around in like they do elsewhere

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

"The poet must not avert his eyes"
-Werner Herzog

real ones love dogshit and divinity

Werner Herzog's bizarre love for WrestleMania

Werner Herzog's not exactly the first guy you'd associate with an interest in pro-wrestling, yet he's spoken of his bizarre love for WrestleMania a few times.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1d

Dearest Buffalo, NY! Tonight!
Let's talk Gothic tropes and Ghost Stories! They have A LOT in common and I have THOUGHTS for you!
(and my own personal ghost stories to share)
Let's go!!! 👻

Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 3d

REMINDER:
This Thursday night in Downtown Buffalo, we've got a book signing & literary chat with @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC! Come hang out, grab a book and set your October up right with gothic history & good vibes:
eveninghousebooks.com/event/leanna...

Leanna Renee Hieber Book Signing & Author Talk - Evening House Books

Come hear from haunted NYC guide and historian Leanna Renee Hieber, who will be discussing her latest nonfiction title, AMERICA’S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION. […]

eveninghousebooks.com

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 1d

GET IN, LOSER! We are sinking under the accumulated weight of centuries of misrule over Central Europe that has produced a mindset both cravenly supplicant and splenetically hostile.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

We saw!! Between that and their big focus on North Sun and We Were Green and Trembling Amanda's been pre-selecting a lot of winners this year :D

Thanks for always being so sweet, Teresa, this put a big smile on both our faces

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

As a writer, I don’t consider myself in competition with anyone outside of a hypothetical variant of me that lives in my head and is a better writer than me and is a fucking asshole about it

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

Window Boy is really something special, had the same reaction lol

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

It is very rad that bookshop is doing free shipping, and hell, you can pick up FEAST for 15 bucks if you've been hungry for this odd ass book:
bookshop.org/p/books/feas...

Feast of the Pale Leviathan

Check out Feast of the Pale Leviathan - <p>A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found and devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what Ow...

bookshop.org

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

and hey, while you're at it, if you like this thread and wanna check out my two new books this year, that'd be very lovely of you, and I hope they end up being up your alley

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

It's a really important moment for us to take the extra step and diversify what businesses we support, and indie bookstores go the extra mile to make our towns and cities better, support good writing for its own sake, and enrich our lives with community and culture!

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

then of course you got your local shops that all have different human booksellers who take time to select books based on their own standards, criteria and vision, which can help take the vast sea of new book releases and make them accessible, all so you can find the perfect new book for you :)

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

there's also @asterismbooks.bsky.social which is a treasure trove of indie presses, run by extremely sweet and talented booksellers. Great place to pick up the latest @malarkeybooks.bsky.social releases like @renbolger.bsky.social, @vikhinao.bsky.social + @abasketofcraig.bsky.social

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

but you got choices! there's @bookshop.org (bookshop.org) where you can support indie bookstores by choosing them as your affiliate link. Check to see if your local shop has some hand-picked favorites:

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

bookshop.org

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

Of course I'll recommend @eveninghouse.bsky.social, the fledgling bookstore my partner and I run, with our beautiful website and great selection of high-quality literature, focusing on small presses, books in translation and bangers new and old (which ship anywhere in the US:)
eveninghousebooks.com

Evening House Books

Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.

eveninghousebooks.com

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

It's a great day, like any other day but especially today, to buy books from indie bookstores or your local library, you sexy bastards

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