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Why is it so goddamn hot at conference / hotels?

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Photo should’ve been of a cabbage taking a languid drag from a cigarette.

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Made it about 1/3 of the way this week, and I'm picking up on a great deal more now than the first time. One such: Pynchon writes a damn fine heartbreaking farewell scene, and because there are so many characters in this book, he has occasion to do so, beautifully, quite often.

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I was a uncharacteristically a little stressed last night thinking about short travel plans this week. Not simply the stuff of planes falling out of the sky or whatever. More the stuff of who my demise would, as a long-time partner, an employer, and what not, would inconvenience in varying degrees.

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Not sure about leaving my wife alone with this guy for a few days.

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Funny, because I sell it as not his best so much as his most commercial & easily read. lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

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One of the challenges we're discovering as we head toward the close of a third month of being open is how oddly slower it is for news of a reopening to spread than was news of a fire destroying it.

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K was prepping to apply for a position, & the company wanted a fucking essay. What is this now, high school again? HR culture is truly toxic.

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It’s a fair thing to wonder what goes on at a bookseller conference. When it comes to EBB, it’s fair to say at any given moment of the itinerary one of us is scowling.

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Like many people, I too I order things that upon arrival make me wonder, WTF, I ordered this?

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Read a fair bit of Byung-Chul Han SPIRIT OF HOPE yesterday during lunch. It hit some notes I didn't disagree with, but ... it felt a bit like I was sitting at a postmodern church service. ebbooksellers.com/item/ZNKvTC8...

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Save the date - though we don’t yet have a date. We’re going to kick off a “vibes only book group” for Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day sometime soon. No chairs. No planned questions. Discuss the book if you care too. Or revel in the atmosphere of being in a shared space with those who refuse to.

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It was nice to see Chumbawamba's "The Day The Nazi Died" trending in my Instagram feed. www.reddit.com/r/Music/comm...

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Erasure is a violent prelude to yet greater violence. And it is the Republican policy playbook through and through. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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Quiet everybody, a footnote of history is talking.

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A fun thing I notice is how many are very pro-labor right up to the moment they, as customers, have to pay more for that labor. E.g., crying about expensive tacos.

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Kind of quietly, they've become one of my "dark horse" publishers. Almost always something new I'm excited about, and a terrific backlist.

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I do not envision a time in which I actually stock Vols 1 & 2 of this ... but I certainly can buying them for myself. ebbooksellers.com/item/yzFhyjz...

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This is merely a new book to me, not truly new; but it makes me happy to see others also stand-offish and annoyed by the over-use of "curation." I look forward to reading it -- not least because Coach House often uses such excellent paper! ebbooksellers.com/item/eICIMlJ...

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To supplement my re-reading of Pynchon. ebbooksellers.com/item/Pccopn0...

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I'm at a bookseller conference next week (called Winter Institute, if you're curious). My recurring curiosity is going to be about how people are already, wish to, or anticipate buying for their stores during Trump 2.0. I'm hoping to be surprised by the responses.

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This looks so very cool ... but I will have to hope against hope & wait 4+ years to see it at a paperback price. ebbooksellers.com/item/MSO9ALx...

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Very cool to see Flood is releasing a new edition of Ronald Johnson's ARK -- the sort of thing that should always be available, to the extent such is possible. ebbooksellers.com/item/Df_tS1y...

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I don't know why I'm so much better posting over there than here, but it's just something we're all going to have to work through one way or another.

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Today I started rereading Pynchon’s Against the Day. A hundred pages in, and I’ve not mis-remembered loving this book.

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Amusing myself during a very quiet normally busy holiday weekend Saturday with the thought that while a fire couldn’t put us out of business something so mundane as foot traffic does.

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I kind of want to get these and decorate the store w/ the flashcards.

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Who cares? A direct line to bullshit or bullshit second band … it doesn’t matter.

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NYC, why do you keep electing Trump stooges?

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