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Leviathan Bookstore

@leviathanbookstore.bsky.social

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An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, near Tower Grove Park in St. Louis. https://leviathanbookstore.com/

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 1d

That's @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social, for those scoring at home.

Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 1d

Free shipping for online orders today, courtesy of @bookshop.org!

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 1d

Not even the dignity of Comic Sans

Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 2d

Might put that slogan on a shirt

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 4d

Blockbuster author James Patterson is once again opening his wallet to offer holiday bonuses to booksellers. If there's one you think is great, at our store or any other indie shop in the US, nominate them! All of them--there's no limit to how many you can champion!

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James Patterson Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program 2025

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 7d

We're one of only 5 stores in the US hosting a midnight release party for Pynchon's SHADOW TICKET, publishing on Tuesday. Join us for festivities starting at 11pm on Monday, Oct. 6!

Details at leviathanbookstore.com/events

An infographic promoting a Midnight Release Party for Thomas Pynchon's novel Shadow Ticket, starting at 11pm on Monday, October 6 at Leviathan Bookstore, 3211 South Grand Blvd. Refreshments, trivia w/prizes, & novels for sale. An image of the book's sepia-toned cover, showing a neon-lit 1930s Budapest street, with title and author name in coral and purple sans serif type appears next to the informational text, along with a cartoon drawing of the author with a paper bag over his face.

A copy of Thomas Pynchon's novel Shadow Ticket stands upright on a light-colored wooden tabletop, next to a black canvas tote bag advertising the title and author name in coral and purple, topped by a black baseball cap with Shadow Ticket written on the front in purple.

Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 11d

The best laid plans gang aft agley . . .

Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 13d

What he said

Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · 13d

Fo sho!! I got my dealer around the corner @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social

Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 13d

ALL the best bookstores…

A photo of Joan Aiken’s Tales of London Town, a book with a bright green spine and a black-and-white sketch of a London square topped by a colorful rainbow, facing out on a bookstore shelf

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 14d

Join us at @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social tomorrow night for the 7:30pm screening of One Battle After Another, based on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. Your popcorn is on us if we see you wearing our bookstore merch!

Poster for Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie One Battle After Another with Thomas Pynchon’s photo superimposed onto Leonardo DiCaprio’s head

Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 18d

We judged a pie contest this morning and didn't get blueberry stains on any books, so today was a win

Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 19d

Another day of wild internal yo-yoing about what to say in this space. The clown show of politics has us more coulrophobic than ever, yet there’s plenty of good news in the world we’d rather discuss. Would a rant from us help the situation? If so, consider this a red-faced, finger-pointing jeremiad.

Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 21d

Who’s hungry?

A glass jar filled with oatmeal cookies rests on the light-colored wood counter of a bookstore next to piles of branded stickers from Leviathan Bookstore

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 22d

“how do you read so many books?”

a screenshot of the news from the 80s saying DONT: USE THE PHONE

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Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social · 25d

Good morning ☀️ to everyone whose favorite form of exercise is going on a long run-on sentence.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 26d

"In spite of ourselves
We'll end up a'sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize"

John Prine's good for what ails you. So are bookstores. John Prine playing in a bookstore? Couldn't be better.

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · 28d

Congrats to a small local publisher of international scope, @dorothyproject.bsky.social, for having one of their forthcoming titles added to the @nationalbook.bsky.social longlist for Nonfiction!

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The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam

Check out The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam - <b>Situated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, <i>The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam </i>is an incisive response to a modernist cl...

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here too

Four colorful volumes of Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage series stand spine out on a bookshelf

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · Sep 5

Stanza strong! It’s been a big week for poetry sales—this stack had to be replenished, and that’s not all of them.

A pile of poetry books rests on a bookstore counter, with a few scattered face-up in front

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not our work, but putting in a plug for the amazing artistry of 18th-century innovator Mary Delany (and her biographer, Molly Peacock)!

Cover of the book The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock, showing pink-petaled, green-leaved paper flower collages on a black background

Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · Sep 3

Pacific Northwest: Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler / Wild Life by Molly Gloss

Cover of Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · Sep 3

California: I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita / Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

Cover of Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · Sep 3

World's longest shelf talker? It won't fit even in the alt text!

The one thing everyone knows about Transylvania is that it’s the home of Bram Stoker’s fictional Count Dracula. Most also know that it’s an actual territory in Romania. That’s true now, and has been for many decades, but it’s not the whole story. Did you know that this region was for a thousand years, from the turn of the first millennium to the early 20th century, an essential part of Hungary? The trans-sylvan “land beyond the forest” was wide and wild, and its residents were seen as more rugged and authentic than those closer to the capital city of Budapest—it seems to have occupied much the same place in the Magyar imagination that the American West does in ours. The handing over of Transylvania to Romania in the aftermath of World War I was a devastating blow.

That national calamity is what Miklós Bánffy slowly, deliciously works his way toward in his sweeping trilogy. The individual volumes borrow their titles from the famous writing on the wall in the biblical book of Daniel, a prophecy about the collapse of a legendary kingdom—They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided—and together they describe the decline of a fascinating real place.

The story begins as a young nobleman (a Bánffy stand-in) returns from diplomatic service abroad and is flung back into the social and political Hungarian swirl. Tempted by selfish interests but dedicated to the betterment of his society, he charts a course toward the future, beset on all sides by frivolity and obliviousness. Old ladies gossip and young ladies angle to win marital competitions while generals compare mustaches and bicker pettily about their junior status in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, all unaware that their lives are about to turn upside down.

Though written in the 1930s, the trilogy is both in style and substance the last of the great 19th-century novels, grand and stately and ambitious and utterly immersive. The characters, including the upright Count Abady, the captivating Adrienne with …

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Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Primarily in the business of purveying strangeness" might just be our new motto.

Hat-tip to @jpinckney.bsky.social for introducing us to this excerpt.