East Bay Booksellers
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We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
Another anniversary of the fire passed yesterday. It's funny, we now don't think about it all that much. Far less than many customers, in fact. The human brain, given time, is inclined, to a point, to heal. Resolve and general stubbornness may yet be some of the greatest tools in our toolkit.
for the great @oaklandreviewofbooks.org, I wrote about the On the Calculation of Volume novels, why I find them so bizarrely compelling, and what it might have to do with our favorite new american proverb www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/maybe-it-wil...
Maybe it will happen today
Solvej Balle monitors the situation.
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Happenings at this month’s @oaklandreviewofbooks.org happy hour. We …. * supplied some free book for the taking * met the creator of an amazing podcast (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...) * drank a strong cocktail that looked like a heathy smoothie. You should come next time!
Happenings at this month’s @oaklandreviewofbooks.org happy hour. We …. * supplied some free book for the taking * met the creator of an amazing podcast (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...) * drank a strong cocktail that looked like a heathy smoothie. You should come next time!
By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”
We’re just a bookstore, but just have to say: this is fucking perverse. www.cnn.com/2026/07/17/c...
People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN
As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
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Rose Horowitch recently published a piece in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY that made a bit of noise online about “the end of reading.” I didn’t think I had a lot to say about it until I was actually asked. I thought I’d share a portion of my response.
For those counting that's now FOUR national book banning bills that are moving their way through. This one seems to be a senate companion to 7661 (much of the same language). Call the senate re: 2616 and 4925, call the house re: 8705, 7661 And as always, fuck censorship 📚
American Library Association@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: A federal book banning bill has been introduced in the Senate. It's time to make our voices heard. Tell your Senators to REJECT pro-censorship legislation like S. 4925 that would limit the freedom to read! We need every advocate to speak out against censorship: action.ala.org/campaign/S4925
there is a reading crisis, one element of which is the seizure of control over reading in schools by people who aren't serious readers
Lisa Robertson's RIVERWORK has been our bestselling novel published this year! And, happily, as of right now, this very moment, we have more in stock! ebbooksellers.com/item/eICIMlJ...
Riverwork by Lisa Robertson | East Bay Booksellers
A lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult-favourite poet and author of The Baudelaire Fractal comes a glittering and erudite new novel of Paris.
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Obviously read whatever you like, but the general & consistent laziness of the NY Times “Best Books (So Far)” lists suggest you could just as well ask a stranger for theirs when waiting in line for a coffee.
VAR ruling is official: we’re open July 4th from 11 to 7pm. No foul or penalties.
Bro, you’re one hot mic away from being excommunicated yourself.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last mo.Vance: People hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say, "in this house we believe blah blah blah blah blah. You know, love is love, science is science, whatever. No person is illegal." That sign is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed
Operational note for this weekend: we are open throughout, including July 4th, our normal hours. We encourage everybody to celebrate the holiday with *apparently* un-American behavior like empathy, curiosity, and humility in the face of human and non-human complexity, possibility, and finitude.
New summer reading email is out in the wild! mailchi.mp/ebbookseller...
Time Keeps On Slipping Into the Future
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"The Government Doesn't Want You To Read These Zines" – new benefit zine packets from South Bend Commons! All proceeds go to Prairieland Defendants. firestorm.coop/products/253... @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social
A lot of social media posts (pro and con) about Amazon this week. You can certainly divine our feelings. Amidst the tumult, I esp. like Emily West's BUY NOW for its analysis from the perspective of a media studies scholar. ebbooksellers.com/item/Jt0yuxc...
Buy Now by Emily West | East Bay Booksellers
How Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to become the ultimate service brand in the digital economy.
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Workshopping new store slogans we’ll never merchandise: “East Bay Booksellers — relatively irrelevant”
Public service announcement: we have gifts aplenty for Dad; definitely some for Daddy; and hell, we probably have something around here for Father.
Last night I saw the word "Booksmaxxing," and had to clean my eyes with a strong alcohol concentrate. But now I've typed it, and am back to square one.
The reward for being one of the more loathsome people on the planet is apparently up to a trillion dollars.
Looking for your next read? Our Bay Area indie bookseller friends at Niebla, @ebbooksellers.bsky.social, and @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social shared literary translation titles you’ll want to add to your TBR this summer ☀️⛱️. Read the full list here: buff.ly/0j3rDCv
We very highly recommend giving this conversation a listen -- not least because one of our very own (i.e., ME!) is quoted praising Robertson's book in the introduction.
David Naimon@davidnaimon.bsky.social · 2mo agoVery excited to share today's conversation with Lisa Robertson. We look back across her writing life—in poetry, fiction & nonfiction—using her latest novel RIVERWORK as the frame & portal for it all. Audio🔉🔥: milkweed.org/between-the-... @coachhousebooks.bsky.social
When I last visited (their newer location), I was delighted by the range of unusual and uncommon books and little magazines they had. @ebbooksellers.bsky.social is a model community bookstore — not just recreating the same, expected stock!
Spent a long time with East Bay Booksellers’ staff picks, which are really unexpected and varied and interesting. So many books in the world! ebbooksellers.com/staff-recomm...
East Bay Booksellers
We are a neighborhood bookstore in Oakland, California's Rockridge district with sometimes particular interests and specific tastes.
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We don’t get a lot of A-list celebrities at the store, as far as I know. But we did recently have a dog named Doug.
