Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast)
@drinkswithnick.bsky.social
Bookseller at Lovestruck. Cocktail creator for some of the great books I love. Podcast? Sure. At DrinksWithNick, too. Also, I break things.
Have I mentioned how hard you’re going to groove to Hot Wax from @mlrio.bsky.social?
Need something nice and naughty to get you in the mood? Pull up to the drive-in and flag down @drinkswithnick.bsky.social to keep you cool until this hot stuff drops 🍒 #books #hotwax @simonbooks.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Have I mentioned how hard you’re going to groove to Hot Wax from @mlrio.bsky.social?
Can you find Crush from the incomparable @adacalhoun.bsky.social on the shelves @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social? Of course! In her debut novel, Calhoun delves into the perils and pleasures of a midlife affair in this whip-smart, funny and fabulously honest look at a rebellious romance.
April 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Can you find Crush from the incomparable @adacalhoun.bsky.social on the shelves @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social? Of course! In her debut novel, Calhoun delves into the perils and pleasures of a midlife affair in this whip-smart, funny and fabulously honest look at a rebellious romance.
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I wrote a highly biased guide to (most of) my friends' books being published in 2025. This feels like the perfect use of my newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/mariskre...
The Maris Review, vol 36
Happy new year. Who can say what 2025 has in store for us, but I know for sure there will be good books. Allow me to shout about my friends for a bit?
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January 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I wrote a highly biased guide to (most of) my friends' books being published in 2025. This feels like the perfect use of my newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/mariskre...
Ok, at Lovestruck Books this year, we definitely had the hunky Australian firefighter calendar — next year we add the Sexiest Collard Farmer calendar, naturally.
Everyone knows about North Carolina's annual Sexiest Collard Farmer Contest?
The 2024 winner is Patrick Brown of Brown Family Farms.
There's a calendar too, apparently. www.collardsonly.com
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The 2024 winner is Patrick Brown of Brown Family Farms.
There's a calendar too, apparently. www.collardsonly.com
gardenandgun.com/articles/mee...
December 28, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Ok, at Lovestruck Books this year, we definitely had the hunky Australian firefighter calendar — next year we add the Sexiest Collard Farmer calendar, naturally.
When you keep finding old friends in your brand new store and it makes you smile! Like @minjinlee.bsky.social, who has a fabulous spot on our shelves! Yay, Pachinko!
December 21, 2024 at 6:23 PM
When you keep finding old friends in your brand new store and it makes you smile! Like @minjinlee.bsky.social, who has a fabulous spot on our shelves! Yay, Pachinko!
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Thanks to Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Republicans cut $190 million for pediatric cancer research from the funding bill.
Congrats to DOGE on their first victory.
Congrats to DOGE on their first victory.
December 19, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Thanks to Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Republicans cut $190 million for pediatric cancer research from the funding bill.
Congrats to DOGE on their first victory.
Congrats to DOGE on their first victory.
My retail brethren! I come to you today with a question, maybe THE question of our times! When setting up your cash drawer, do you arrange it as pictured, with your one dollar bills and your pennies on the left, or — are you a monster?
@newtonvillebooks.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social
@newtonvillebooks.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 4:50 PM
My retail brethren! I come to you today with a question, maybe THE question of our times! When setting up your cash drawer, do you arrange it as pictured, with your one dollar bills and your pennies on the left, or — are you a monster?
@newtonvillebooks.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social
@newtonvillebooks.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social
Really wish this was real, darn it.
December 12, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Really wish this was real, darn it.
This was for yesterday, the 2nd! Go read this book. There’s gin on, um, pg 147? Or 149. Gin is good. This book is better. Martyr, by Kaveh Akbar. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 10:35 PM
This was for yesterday, the 2nd! Go read this book. There’s gin on, um, pg 147? Or 149. Gin is good. This book is better. Martyr, by Kaveh Akbar. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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We need to keep talking about how weird it is for people to think they should have a say in reading choices for anyone's kids but their own. You're not in charge of what other people's children eat or wear or when they go to bed. Why on earth would you get to choose what they read?
December 3, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Last year, starting on December 1st, I posted a book a day for a month. I vowed not to do that again. I’m a bookseller, not an influencer, as Dr. McCoy could have told Kirk in an alternate universe. But! JT Geissinger gave me Ruthless Creatures, and now all bets are off. @panmacmillan.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Last year, starting on December 1st, I posted a book a day for a month. I vowed not to do that again. I’m a bookseller, not an influencer, as Dr. McCoy could have told Kirk in an alternate universe. But! JT Geissinger gave me Ruthless Creatures, and now all bets are off. @panmacmillan.bsky.social
Small Business Saturday was a response to 2008’s horrific financial crisis brought on by — well, the usual suspects. So today, please remember, oligarchs never have your interests at heart. Small businesses often do. Buy a book from a neighbor, keep your $ local. Like at the @mysteriousbookshop.com!
November 30, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Small Business Saturday was a response to 2008’s horrific financial crisis brought on by — well, the usual suspects. So today, please remember, oligarchs never have your interests at heart. Small businesses often do. Buy a book from a neighbor, keep your $ local. Like at the @mysteriousbookshop.com!
Yes, I’m religious, I believe in the Holy Trinity.
November 30, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Yes, I’m religious, I believe in the Holy Trinity.
It’s beginning to look a lot like…
…at Green Apple Books in San Francisco!
@greenapplebooks.bsky.social @raeannethayne.bsky.social
…at Green Apple Books in San Francisco!
@greenapplebooks.bsky.social @raeannethayne.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 7:39 PM
It’s beginning to look a lot like…
…at Green Apple Books in San Francisco!
@greenapplebooks.bsky.social @raeannethayne.bsky.social
…at Green Apple Books in San Francisco!
@greenapplebooks.bsky.social @raeannethayne.bsky.social
Listening to Patti Smith. Trying to take comfort from a poet. Usually, that’s a recipe for disaster. I mean, poets! But Smith is always freaking brilliant.
“I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools…”
(and relax. i’m joking about poets. mostly.)
“I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools…”
(and relax. i’m joking about poets. mostly.)
November 27, 2024 at 3:46 AM
Listening to Patti Smith. Trying to take comfort from a poet. Usually, that’s a recipe for disaster. I mean, poets! But Smith is always freaking brilliant.
“I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools…”
(and relax. i’m joking about poets. mostly.)
“I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools…”
(and relax. i’m joking about poets. mostly.)
Had champagne — which reminded me of the drink I made for Good Night, Irene, from @urrealism.bsky.social. A simple drink, just a nod to the champagne dinners Irene left behind & the raspberry pastilles she took with her when she enlists w/the Red Cross in 1943. A gorgeous book, beautifully told.
November 25, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Had champagne — which reminded me of the drink I made for Good Night, Irene, from @urrealism.bsky.social. A simple drink, just a nod to the champagne dinners Irene left behind & the raspberry pastilles she took with her when she enlists w/the Red Cross in 1943. A gorgeous book, beautifully told.
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Tell me your fave indie bookstore by tonight to be entered to win a box of some of my favorite things. Books! Tea! Swag! Girl Scout cookies! (US only, because international shipping is well outside my budget.)
I said that when (if) I hit 2k followers, I'd do a giveaway. I'm currently sitting on 2.3k, so I'm making good. REPLY to this with the name of your favorite indie bookstore by midnight EST on Sun., Nov. 24 & you could win a box of some of my favorite things. (US only, since int'l. shipping is $$$.)
November 24, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Tell me your fave indie bookstore by tonight to be entered to win a box of some of my favorite things. Books! Tea! Swag! Girl Scout cookies! (US only, because international shipping is well outside my budget.)
Post a movie gif from the year you were born.
(The best adaptation of them all.)
(The best adaptation of them all.)
November 24, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Post a movie gif from the year you were born.
(The best adaptation of them all.)
(The best adaptation of them all.)
My short shelf-talker for James by Percival Everett when it was released? “Read next year’s Pulitzer winner today.” I could have substituted National Book Award for Pulitzer, but you get it. I loved it so much I purchased a signed copy from another Indie — it’s so good!@doubledaybooks.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 7:30 PM
My short shelf-talker for James by Percival Everett when it was released? “Read next year’s Pulitzer winner today.” I could have substituted National Book Award for Pulitzer, but you get it. I loved it so much I purchased a signed copy from another Indie — it’s so good!@doubledaybooks.bsky.social
Did I mention I have a podcast at DrinksWithNick? I do, I do. The latest is my conversation with the fabulous @abbottkahler.bsky.social discussing her latest, Eden Undone. Recorded at the wonderful @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social.
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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#7 - Abbott Kahler - Drinks With Nick
Abbott Kahler's wonderfully outrageous non-fiction has never been on better display than with her latest work, "Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II."...
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November 19, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Did I mention I have a podcast at DrinksWithNick? I do, I do. The latest is my conversation with the fabulous @abbottkahler.bsky.social discussing her latest, Eden Undone. Recorded at the wonderful @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social.
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
www.buzzsprout.com/1443181/epis...
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
www.buzzsprout.com/1443181/epis...
Like I said, I create drinks for fab books w/ingredients I find in those books. This is a Chee Royale — mixed for @alexanderchee.bsky.social & his book How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Ever in Boston? Let’s have a drink and we can discuss this spin on a Kir Royale. Or even better — the book!
November 18, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Like I said, I create drinks for fab books w/ingredients I find in those books. This is a Chee Royale — mixed for @alexanderchee.bsky.social & his book How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Ever in Boston? Let’s have a drink and we can discuss this spin on a Kir Royale. Or even better — the book!
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This feels like when you were 21 and none of your friends could decide what bar to go to so everyone just stood there on the cold sidewalk debating and not going anywhere
November 14, 2024 at 12:46 AM
This feels like when you were 21 and none of your friends could decide what bar to go to so everyone just stood there on the cold sidewalk debating and not going anywhere
I think a handy people barometer these days is to share Zora Neale Hurston’s words: “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” I myself am in the former category re 2025.
(Sign found in @portersqbooks.bsky.social in the Seaport. If you haven’t visited, do!)
(Sign found in @portersqbooks.bsky.social in the Seaport. If you haven’t visited, do!)
November 14, 2024 at 8:57 PM
I think a handy people barometer these days is to share Zora Neale Hurston’s words: “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” I myself am in the former category re 2025.
(Sign found in @portersqbooks.bsky.social in the Seaport. If you haven’t visited, do!)
(Sign found in @portersqbooks.bsky.social in the Seaport. If you haven’t visited, do!)
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Great to be on here. A relief. Hi. I'm a fiction writer and teacher, author of 6 books including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake & The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, ever invested in folklore and magical realism as ways to consider our lives. Big believer in community of all kinds.
November 12, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Great to be on here. A relief. Hi. I'm a fiction writer and teacher, author of 6 books including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake & The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, ever invested in folklore and magical realism as ways to consider our lives. Big believer in community of all kinds.
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