It's the season of people holding up their phones to show you a picture of a book they're looking for.

Reluctantly liking this.

I love Eliot Weinberger beyond words. Of his time at Yale: "Everybody I met had a name like 'Hi, I’m Bob Colgate,' or 'Hi, I’m Bob Schick.' It was like opening the bathroom cabinet."

Unpopular opinion: booksellers should be a bit snobby.

Nice coincidence seeing you pop up here, John. Just this afternoon the poet Clark Coolidge came in and asked about your book, which I happily sold him a day before its official publication date.

James Galvin's 'The Meadow' is one for me. I have no attachment to the landscape he writes about, but feel like I know it through his prose.

I love this.

Was this in a box on your front porch, Caroline

I read it last year, felt the same. Beyond the eerie resonance, it's a very good novel.

Legends means we're old, doesn't it.

Field Companion for Wandering; lots of Etel Adnan; Puddles; Like a Sky Inside; Notes on Nothing; Lynne Tillman; My Heart Has So Many Flaws; Short Talks; and lots of stuff from World Poetry and Winter Editions, among others.

I found Adam Nicholson's How to Be a nice addition to this canon.

Let's talk!

Closing in on 2,000 copies sold of that edition of John Fowles' Tree. So happy to see it going and going at @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social.

Was led to that and the Antimemetics book above it by the New Yorker article. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...