Brad Craft
@usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social
Long time bookseller, writes a little, draws a lot, reads aloud in public but not unannounced
Chatting with a dear friend this morning and was reminded of just how absolutely shit Fantasy titles are
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Chatting with a dear friend this morning and was reminded of just how absolutely shit Fantasy titles are
“No! I will not hide in the fruit cellar! Ha! You think I'm fruity, huh? I'm staying right here. This is my room and no one will drag me out of it…”
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“No! I will not hide in the fruit cellar! Ha! You think I'm fruity, huh? I'm staying right here. This is my room and no one will drag me out of it…”
It’s the Persimmon Princess a.k.a. that tart ol’ winter fruit.
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It’s the Persimmon Princess a.k.a. that tart ol’ winter fruit.
For breakfast yesterday and today, delicious cranberry bread (and a Kay Ryan poem) from my dear friend and regular reading attendee Olivia Libby Hill. Thanks again!
December 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
For breakfast yesterday and today, delicious cranberry bread (and a Kay Ryan poem) from my dear friend and regular reading attendee Olivia Libby Hill. Thanks again!
Thanks to the buttons and advice provided by dear Elizabeth A. Whited Liebendorfer my pants did indeed not fall off at last night’s Holiday Reading.
December 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Thanks to the buttons and advice provided by dear Elizabeth A. Whited Liebendorfer my pants did indeed not fall off at last night’s Holiday Reading.
Bouquet of cheer from my reading last night, a gift from my coworker Elliott.
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Bouquet of cheer from my reading last night, a gift from my coworker Elliott.
Tomorrow is the day! Saturday, December 6th at 6PM PST (8PM Central, 9PM EST) I will be reading A Christmas Memory at the bookstore for the 18th year! I will also be going LIVE on my Facebook profile if you want to join us from far away.
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Tomorrow is the day! Saturday, December 6th at 6PM PST (8PM Central, 9PM EST) I will be reading A Christmas Memory at the bookstore for the 18th year! I will also be going LIVE on my Facebook profile if you want to join us from far away.
Made me fish and chips
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Made me fish and chips
I was surprised at how much I genuinely admired last year’s Brightly Shining, translated by Caroline Waight. I’ve read ALOT of Christmas stories, as you might imagine. Now from Grove and translator Diane Oatley comes Winter Stories, by the same, Ingvild Rishøi. So good
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I was surprised at how much I genuinely admired last year’s Brightly Shining, translated by Caroline Waight. I’ve read ALOT of Christmas stories, as you might imagine. Now from Grove and translator Diane Oatley comes Winter Stories, by the same, Ingvild Rishøi. So good
World AIDS Day. Remembering Peter, Jimmy, Carl, so many others, famous and not. Remembering all that was lost because of bigotry, indifference, neglect, homophobia, racism, and fear. Never forget. Say their names.
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
World AIDS Day. Remembering Peter, Jimmy, Carl, so many others, famous and not. Remembering all that was lost because of bigotry, indifference, neglect, homophobia, racism, and fear. Never forget. Say their names.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rest in peace, poet. #tomstoppard #rip #restinpeace
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rest in peace, poet. #tomstoppard #rip #restinpeace
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rest in peace, poet. #tomstoppard #rip #restinpeace
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rest in peace, poet. #tomstoppard #rip #restinpeace
A gift I got myself and through which I’ve been cruising like a queen hawt for tea, The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life, by Hugo Greenhalgh, from Atlantic Books. Fascinating story of a life lived largely before liberation, in search of love, and Guardsmen at two in the morning.
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A gift I got myself and through which I’ve been cruising like a queen hawt for tea, The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life, by Hugo Greenhalgh, from Atlantic Books. Fascinating story of a life lived largely before liberation, in search of love, and Guardsmen at two in the morning.
He has achieved pie. Sweet potato. (Also already made greens, gravy, stuffing.) Nothing but turkey breast (and legs for me) and mashed potatoes to do tomorrow.
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
He has achieved pie. Sweet potato. (Also already made greens, gravy, stuffing.) Nothing but turkey breast (and legs for me) and mashed potatoes to do tomorrow.
You know what? People always had shit taste, most of ‘em; read bad books, loved bad music, ate bad food. Please stop moaning about The Decline of the Bloody West. Your grandma read garbage too. Read better books.
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
You know what? People always had shit taste, most of ‘em; read bad books, loved bad music, ate bad food. Please stop moaning about The Decline of the Bloody West. Your grandma read garbage too. Read better books.
Got a poster in the lobby. A Christmas Memory. Remember? 18th year. Hope to see YOU there. Saturday, December 6th at 6pm
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Got a poster in the lobby. A Christmas Memory. Remember? 18th year. Hope to see YOU there. Saturday, December 6th at 6pm
He rolled his big, beautiful, Bette Davis eyes, drawled some idiotic dialogue in an accent that was never not thick as spätzle, and was just gay as a Christmas goose in chop frills. Köstlichkeit! I will miss the campy, doe-eyed anarchy of Udo Kier. Ruhe in Frieden, meine Königin. #rip #udokier
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
‘Cause nothin’ says we down with all the androgynous K-pop cuties, brah, like a 62 year old man in bibs and with a thick book.
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
‘Cause nothin’ says we down with all the androgynous K-pop cuties, brah, like a 62 year old man in bibs and with a thick book.
Why do I (so far) remain committed to Solvej Balle’s septology? The protagonist, stuck perhaps forever in an endlessly repeating November 18th is or was a used book dealer. There’s that. The Calculation of Volume from New Directions, translated by Sophie Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Why do I (so far) remain committed to Solvej Balle’s septology? The protagonist, stuck perhaps forever in an endlessly repeating November 18th is or was a used book dealer. There’s that. The Calculation of Volume from New Directions, translated by Sophie Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
“Umm Hassan is dead.” Good start right there. Epic novel of the Palestinian exile in Lebanon. Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury (1948 - 2024,) translated by Humphrey Davies for Archipelago Books
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“Umm Hassan is dead.” Good start right there. Epic novel of the Palestinian exile in Lebanon. Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury (1948 - 2024,) translated by Humphrey Davies for Archipelago Books
Couldn’t think who the passive protagonist of Szalay’s Booker winning Flesh reminded me of… Chance the gardener from Being There, maybe? Then it hit me. Pete Davidson’s Chad from SNL.
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Couldn’t think who the passive protagonist of Szalay’s Booker winning Flesh reminded me of… Chance the gardener from Being There, maybe? Then it hit me. Pete Davidson’s Chad from SNL.
Oh, Jonathan where are you? Why are you not here yet?!
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh, Jonathan where are you? Why are you not here yet?!
Ordered myself the hardcover. Bless Gordon S. Wood
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Ordered myself the hardcover. Bless Gordon S. Wood
December 6th at 6pm. 18th year reading Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory aloud at the bookstore (also live on Facebook)
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
December 6th at 6pm. 18th year reading Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory aloud at the bookstore (also live on Facebook)
From New Vessel Press, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden, My Dreadful Body, by Azerbaijani novelist Egana Djabbarova. “According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.” Delightful. (Comes out April 7, 2026.)
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
From New Vessel Press, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden, My Dreadful Body, by Azerbaijani novelist Egana Djabbarova. “According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.” Delightful. (Comes out April 7, 2026.)
“Who, or why, or which, or what is the Akond of Swat?” Was there ever a likelier time for nonsense? And so to dear Lear we turn.
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Who, or why, or which, or what is the Akond of Swat?” Was there ever a likelier time for nonsense? And so to dear Lear we turn.