Lo! After these many long years we are finally bringing #WeirdBookWednesday videos over to #BookSky
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Well, hey! A certified #WeirdBookWednesday is a finalist for a National Book Award in fiction! If you need a whaling novel with very little whaling & and unspecified pallor of dread woven throughout mundane experiences all told in beautiful, pensive prose, North Sun is your book!
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Since Helen DeWitt is basically the St. Teresa of Avila of #WeirdBookWednesday we have to celebrate the official release of Your Name Here! It's not for everyone, but does anyone really want a book for everyone? And remember, like a modern day Mrs. Dalloway, buy yourself the 3 motherfucking hams.
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Hello #WeirdBookWednesday readers! You know Helen DeWitt has a "new" book, right? If anyone needs to know that, it's you: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781628...
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Hi #BookSky We're a bit up against it today so you'll need to recommend #WeirdBookWednesday books to each other. You can do it! (Ya weirdo!)
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WHY YES, YOUR WEIRD BOOKSTORE DAD AND #WeirdBookWednesday POSTER IS EXCITED ABOUT THIS!
Hungarian 'Master of the apocalypse' Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature | Reuters share.google/Jl6EvD4UqB07...
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Just reminding #WeirdBookWednesday fans on #BookSky to preorder Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff (who does seem to be a real person) and then read it and then come into the store and tell me what you make of it. (Please! It is so weird!)
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The heads of 7 toxic state leaders spontaneously fall off & giant crocosmia flowers grow in their place, but the weirdest thing about our #WeirdBookWednesday is that is unabashedly, almost ecstatically...hopeful. Miranda Mellis presents Crocosmia tonight in Cambridge!
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So give Kathryn Davis a try! She's got other books that are great too! And come join us tomorrow night. Along with celebrating Davis herself, it will also be a celebration of an important type of reading and writing! Happy #WeirdBookWednesday and we'll see you soon!
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Duplex was my introduction to Davis and you'd be hard pressed to find a better #WeirdBookWednesday book. Robots. Wizards. Suburban discontent. An apocalypse. Maybe a second apocalypse. What more could you ask for?!
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It's #WeirdBookWednesday AND our Kathryn Davis symposium is tomorrow! It will be a great introduction to her work. The symposium will feature 4 essays about her books AND she'll be in conversation with @kellylink.bsky.social Here's a thread of a few of her books to get you psyched!
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Was under the weather for #WeirdBookWednesday but it's my thing so, like who's going to stop me, The President of Calendars? Anyway, I'm going to highlight one of my all time favorite authors with a thread, Victor Lavalle, who just got the fancy re-release with new covers treatment. Here we go...
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Hooray for #WeirdBookWednesday Today, the Patron Saint of Weird Book Wednesday, Renee Gladman is back with To After That. You could base an entire course on writing around this slim volume in which Gladman considers, analyzes, explores, remembers, & wonders about a novella she failed to publish.
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Hey #BookSky One more #WeirdBookWednesday for #WomeninTranslationMonth so we'll do Poso Wells! You got yer corrupt politicians, yer ghosts of colonization, yer economic exploitation, yer public urination-caused dramatic electrocution. You got yer--wait. share.google/quhwL7XLdPnY...
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#WeirdBookWednesday is a little late this morning, because I was at a meeting, so let's a do a weird book with meetings! Like most of Helen DeWitt's books Lightning Rods ain't for everyone but if there's a better book about how capitalism corrupts language I haven't read it.
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It's #WeirdBookWednesday again, it's still #WomeninTranslationMonth so we're going to recommend Woodworm, a feminist, antifascist take on the haunted house. What makes this weird (besides furniture eating people)? The biggest impacts don't come from the scary shit, but the emotional shit.
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It's #WeirdBookWednesday AND #WomeninTranslationMonth So today, let's hype Jawbone by Monica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker. Think Shirley Jackson (strong start) meets Secret History (hell yeah!) plus an academic essay about the work of Edgar Allen Poe! (All rig--huh?) Just, trust me.
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It's Wednesday! Which means it's #WeirdBookWednesday Today, we're remembering that #Kidslit can be plenty weird too, like in A Sleepless Night where all attempts, predictable & odd, fail to get a baby to stop crying, until grandma arrives with a...bicycle? portersquarebooks.com/book/9798893...
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Of course I have a whole pitch for My Volcano as a perfect #WeirdBookWednesday book, but I also kinda want you to discover how its weirdness unfurls.
My Volcano | Porter Square Books share.google/O358qjKliZRh...
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I know I've hyped this one for before, maybe even for a #WeirdbookWednesday but Strange & Perfect Account from the Permafrost is my staff pick this month and so is 20% off! (And it's not like that other "bookstore" having a sale right now is going to hype books like this for you)
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Someone liked this post today so we'll so another DeWitt for #WeirdBookWednesday As salacious as the premise is Lighting Rods is really about how capitalism corrupts language & the type of thinking that language allows/encourages. (Yeah, preeetty uncomfortable at times) share.google/uTENzDMUZY9h...
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I'm trying to come up with a really good #WeirdBookWednesday but I am an intellectual white guy struggling with the heat so here's a book with some of that in it. Reinhardt's Garden (There's other good stuff in the book, I promise) Reinhardt's Garden | Porter Square Books
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For today's #WeirdBookWednesday I'm going wayyyyy back in time. I think one of the big things we as a culture can forget is how WEIRD the stuff we consider mainstream was when it was 1st published. Often it's important now because of how weird it was THEN. Anyway, here's an all timer.
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Father's Day is Sunday so here's a thematic #WeirdBookWednesday from your Weird Bookstore Dad.
The Long Form is a towering achievement that centers, unlike so much literature, caring for a baby...& Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. Shouldn't be weird, but is. Thank Dad for caring for you
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It's #WeirdBookWednesday and since it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to post a link to a book you can't buy at the moment, we'll just hype our event with Donald Niedekker tonight!!! www.portersquarebooks.com/event/donald...
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We're using #WeirdBookWednesday to hype our event with Donald Niedekker author of Strange & Perfect Account from the Permafrost. Wednesday June 4 at 7PM! Hey, @themountaingoats.bsky.social likes the book, so you should definitely check this out! www.portersquarebooks.com/event/donald...
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A beautifully baffling book about the peripatetic wanderings of your own mind through the hotels, hallways, & postcards of the protagonists, or about the instability hiding in every apparently solid building. The Incompletes is a quintessential #WeirdBookWednesday
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It's #WeirdBookWednesday!!! Perpetual Law by Mario Bellatin (the Baron of Weird Books) is a perfect version of...something. Maybe several somethings. Also hard to say whether it comes together or falls apart. Or both. www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9781646...
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We find ourselves in another #WeirdBookWednesday Today, we feature The Long Form by Kate Briggs. Since all of us were born & cared for in some capacity, Briggs' intellectual exploration of caregiving for an baby shouldn't be unusual, but, well. Oh, there's a whole lot about Tom Jones (the novel!)
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We find ourselves at another #WeirdBookWednesday Today we feature an absolute classic in the genre of books that make you go, "Wait, where did these magic spiders come from?" (And also a contemporary masterpiece in weird world lit) www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9780811...
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