Not our insurance company rolling into my inbox wanting to know how many male employees and female employees we have. Kristen, baby, gender is e x p a n s i v e, the boxes on your forms are b r o k e n.
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Greg got a standing ovation and WELL DESERVED
At the Publising Triangle watching the amazing @juliewbach.bsky.social giving an award to the fantabulous Greg and Donnie from @bgsqd.bsky.social and man I love booksellers! And I am so DELIGHTED the hive mind handover of bgsqd is funded! good news for once!!!
This book is so good! I can’t wait to handsell it.
A galley of Lucky Creatures by Joseph Trinadad. Out in June from Sarabande Books. The cover is royal blue and features a cow with its calf nursing. There are rainbow colored streaks emerging from the cow and her calf's hooves. Quote from Alexander Chee on cover: "an entirely original voice"
I'm currently reading and absolutely loving Lucky Creatures by Filipinx writer Joseph Trinadad about growing up and his family. Funny and to echo @alexanderchee.bsky.social "an original voice" Out in June from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social.
"Marietta Zacker, co-owner and agent with Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency, describes “shifts in conversation” and coded language. Zacker says more conversations are held on the phone than via email, suggesting an attempt to stay off the record."
A flamenco dancer lifts her arm in the air as her skirt swirls around her ankles. She’s dancing on a piece of plywood in the middle of a small bookstore. Behind her, a man is seated and playing guitar, while another man is standing at a microphone, singing and and clapping. A bookshelf is behind them. Around the serves of the frame, there is the audience.
Queer flamenco and poetry at the bookstore tonight. Gorgeous, gorgeous.
Why a dozen wide-eyed "just asking questions" repackagings of lobbyist talking points & not a corresponding number of pieces asking why the generation that grew up protesting Vietnam & Apartheid became the board members & admins who urged felonies for students
for the past year, I’ve been organizing with fellow Jewish authors to push the Jewish Book Council away from its alignment with the Israeli state. after a long back-and-forth and no tangible change, our open letter is live today at @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/an-open-lett...
This fucking sucks.
Donnie and Greg have made such a special place. Thank you for sharing far and wide!
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IMAGINE a Manhattan with no gay bookstores, it would be AGAINST NATURE and not in the gay way
If you live in NYC, or care about gay bookstores, please consider helping @juliewbach.bsky.social and @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social keep @bgsqd.bsky.social running
once may be regarded as a misfortune
i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!
ALA is disappointed that the House Committee on Education & Workforce moved forward dangerous federal book banning legislation yesterday. HR 7661 contains vague, confusing, and overly broad language, inviting government censorship.
More from ALA: www.ala.org/news/2026/03... (1/2)
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
“There’s a Marxist analysis of the puppygirl polycule to be made, and I don’t think my book does it, but (like the puppygirl herself) it’s fun to poke around in.”
it is very frustrating when the same org that is pushing shop small (a good thing!) is structurally set up to (almost exclusively) shop big
awards from indie bookstores are great but if you have to shell out (thousands!) to participate in Indie Next to qualify, how indie is this really
Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.
These events have been so fucking good Philly ya owe it to yourself to make it if you can
Gwen just read in Baltimore, and I am a cheerleader 4 her ofc, but it was one of the best literary readings I've ever seen, real star is born shit: if you want to see a show that is a legitimate incredible time, real entertainment like the movies, and for free, make room in yr schedule for this
Are there any booksellers out there who are also writers? Or do you know of any booksellers who are writers? There's a little virtual event thing happening soon and I'd love to share an invite to any writer-booksellers.
(6/?) Jules Wernersbach - Offsite Reading: Writer’s Best Friend: A Cat Reading
Ah, you guys are so wonderful to do this! Thank you!
Oh shit you guys it's the pub day for the paperback of A/S/L!! Copies have been a lil scarce (since it ahem sold through two 💪 hardcover 💪 printings 😇 😈 ❤️) so if you have been looking for it with no luck now is your chance okay!!!
