Brad Craft
@usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social
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Long time bookseller, writes a little, draws a lot, reads aloud in public but not unannounced
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“… freedom produced by love was the highest condition available in the given order of things.” Congratulations László Krasznahorkai, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2025!
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I neither meditate nor pray, instead I watch Cooking at Home videos of the great Jacques Pepin. It’s like watching Michelangelo sketch, or Louis Armstrong solo on an old-timey blues. National and international treasure, is our Jacques.
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“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had…” — Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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Remember decency? Take a dose. David McCullough, History Matters, @simonandschuster.bsky.social
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“What did it really mean to be a writer in such times as these?” Best answer? My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction, by Arundhati Roy. From @haymarketbooks.org
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“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.”
Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall, (The quote is from grr book, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe.) #Hero @janegoodallcan.bsky.social
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It’s Orange Shirt Day, which commemorates the experience of Phyllis Jack Webstad, whose new orange shirt was taken away on her first day at a residential school.
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Arundhati Roy’s memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, is easily the best book I read this year. So now it’s time for her collected nonfiction, My Seditious Heart, from @haymarketbooks.org
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Damn it. Another book I want to read about someone I said I never need to read another book about
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The great state of Oklahoma ranks 50th in education. For children in Oklahoma public schools, let me explain that there are only fifty states so that means… ? This feller wanted not just Bibles, but Trump Bibles in every classroom — and that was not even his worst idea. Bye, buddy.
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Concord grapes are the last joy of summer.
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Licorice because I’m old?
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No I don’t. But I DO love Louis
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Buonanotte, bellezza. #claudiacardinale
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@marinerbooks.bsky.social encouraging to find the glory that is MFK Fisher! Thank you!
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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by @rabihalameddine.bsky.social Rabih Alameddine, from @groveatlantic.bsky.social nothing if not unexpected and so, so good. Masterful writer
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Does anyone still read the genius Dennis Potter?
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You want to stay married? Order two pizzas
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Halloween between hardcovers.
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Anybody still read John Gardner?