Hannah Harlow
@hhharlow.bsky.social
Co-owner of the Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social. Writer. Reader. Co-host of John Updike’s Ghost, a books podcast: pod.link/1594686894
The duo behind the Book Shop AND Four Books a Fortnight being cute in our smocks.
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The duo behind the Book Shop AND Four Books a Fortnight being cute in our smocks.
It seems people like listening on Apple the most so here’s the link to Apple!
Thanks to everyone who's given the new pod a listen so far! Haven't tried out "Four Books a Fortnight" yet? What are you waiting for?
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EP1: A New Hope (well, a new start, anyway)
Podcast Episode · Four Books a Fortnight · 11/05/2025 · 36m
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November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It seems people like listening on Apple the most so here’s the link to Apple!
Listen and let us know what you think!
It's here! Episode 1 of "Four Books a Fortnight" is live and streaming on all your favorite services (seems like everyone just uses Spotify and Apple, tho, yeah?).
Please listen and spread the good word! We're just a little book shop, but we got lots to say about books!
Please listen and spread the good word! We're just a little book shop, but we got lots to say about books!
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Listen and let us know what you think!
I get a little punch drunk by the time I reach title #604 in a catalog, but I'm pretty sure THIRTY LOVE for a gay tennis romance is the best thing I've seen in a while. (Actually would have preferred FORTY LOVE but what can you do. (Damn, it appears to be taken.))
October 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I get a little punch drunk by the time I reach title #604 in a catalog, but I'm pretty sure THIRTY LOVE for a gay tennis romance is the best thing I've seen in a while. (Actually would have preferred FORTY LOVE but what can you do. (Damn, it appears to be taken.))
For Banned Books Week, I wrote a piece about reading dragon books with my 13yo and how things got…complicated.
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Banning books is never the answer. Talking about them is
The first week in October is Banned Books Week, and it prompted Hannah Harlow to reflect on her younger son’s love of dragons, how following his interest helped him gain a foothold in reading, and the...
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October 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
For Banned Books Week, I wrote a piece about reading dragon books with my 13yo and how things got…complicated.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
This article captures a lot of what has been on my mind lately about the industry (and then some). A good read.
“It’s on readers to look beyond the season’s biggest titles that they’re being spoon-fed by major publishers.” We try to encourage this in the store!
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“It’s on readers to look beyond the season’s biggest titles that they’re being spoon-fed by major publishers.” We try to encourage this in the store!
thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
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September 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This article captures a lot of what has been on my mind lately about the industry (and then some). A good read.
“It’s on readers to look beyond the season’s biggest titles that they’re being spoon-fed by major publishers.” We try to encourage this in the store!
thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
“It’s on readers to look beyond the season’s biggest titles that they’re being spoon-fed by major publishers.” We try to encourage this in the store!
thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
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Just posted episode 100 — the very last one! — of John Updike's Ghost. Should be on the streamers shortly. It's just a normal episode. Which means it's awesome, but not, like, more awesome than usual.
Just wait till you see what we come up with next.
Just wait till you see what we come up with next.
September 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just posted episode 100 — the very last one! — of John Updike's Ghost. Should be on the streamers shortly. It's just a normal episode. Which means it's awesome, but not, like, more awesome than usual.
Just wait till you see what we come up with next.
Just wait till you see what we come up with next.
Halfway through this!
August 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Halfway through this!
If you walk into a bookstore and see a bookseller crying, ask us what we just read.
August 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
If you walk into a bookstore and see a bookseller crying, ask us what we just read.
August 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Last night I cleared some books off the nonfiction table and a dozen local bookstore owners came and ate pizza around it. It was pretty great. Dinner in a cozy bookstore! Clinging to the joy of that fellowship as I read the news this AM, which these days always requires a general bracing.
August 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Last night I cleared some books off the nonfiction table and a dozen local bookstore owners came and ate pizza around it. It was pretty great. Dinner in a cozy bookstore! Clinging to the joy of that fellowship as I read the news this AM, which these days always requires a general bracing.
I don't know, I decided to start a blog. Some thoughts on books and bookselling:
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Hannah Harlow
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August 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I don't know, I decided to start a blog. Some thoughts on books and bookselling:
www.hannahharlow.com
www.hannahharlow.com
Sunday morning read, the fictional account of Penelope Fitzgerald’s real-life trip to Mexico. Highly enjoyable so far, somehow the writing keeps you on your back foot in the best way.
August 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sunday morning read, the fictional account of Penelope Fitzgerald’s real-life trip to Mexico. Highly enjoyable so far, somehow the writing keeps you on your back foot in the best way.
I’m hearing a resounding thumbs up.
FOUR BOOKS A FORTNIGHT.
Seriously, if you see this, give a thumbs up or thumbs down for the new podcast name.
Seriously, if you see this, give a thumbs up or thumbs down for the new podcast name.
Seriously, someone talk us out of Four Books a Fortnight.
August 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I’m hearing a resounding thumbs up.
Seriously, someone talk us out of Four Books a Fortnight.
Also, EP100 is probably the last for John Updike's Ghost. It needs a new name for the SEO age.
Feel free to offer suggestions.
Feel free to offer suggestions.
August 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Seriously, someone talk us out of Four Books a Fortnight.
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You guys check out EP97 of "John Updike's Ghost" yet? If you like death and/or time travel, this one's for you:
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July 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
You guys check out EP97 of "John Updike's Ghost" yet? If you like death and/or time travel, this one's for you:
pod.link/1594686894/e...
pod.link/1594686894/e...
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ICYMI: how I put together the talk I give on tour for a new book. Key questions you must answer, nuts and bolts almakatsu.substack.com/p/how-i-prep...
July 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
ICYMI: how I put together the talk I give on tour for a new book. Key questions you must answer, nuts and bolts almakatsu.substack.com/p/how-i-prep...
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Once you see this chart, you will never unsee it.
Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.
June 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Once you see this chart, you will never unsee it.
You cannot opt out of reality!
Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4
June 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
You cannot opt out of reality!
We are very hot and will be sleeping all day.
June 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
We are very hot and will be sleeping all day.
Hala Alyan’s memoir I’LL TELL YOU WHEN I’M HOME is well worth your time. Gorgeously written in short vignettes it embodies the effects of a family’s displacement from their homes (Gaza, Kuwait, Lebanon) over time and generations and how to live with that and survive and endure and rebuild.
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Hala Alyan’s memoir I’LL TELL YOU WHEN I’M HOME is well worth your time. Gorgeously written in short vignettes it embodies the effects of a family’s displacement from their homes (Gaza, Kuwait, Lebanon) over time and generations and how to live with that and survive and endure and rebuild.
This book is so bonkers. I am mostly just along for this wild ride trying to absorb gems of truth and on page 167 I am comforted by the fact that a bookseller goes about bookselling as reality erodes (France, 1940) and is like, yeah, just read some Simenon already. This is basically me.
May 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This book is so bonkers. I am mostly just along for this wild ride trying to absorb gems of truth and on page 167 I am comforted by the fact that a bookseller goes about bookselling as reality erodes (France, 1940) and is like, yeah, just read some Simenon already. This is basically me.
I hate this bc I know good former freelancers who have had to start new careers bc AI stole their jobs and now you’re telling me the few freelancers left are doing a shitty job and not even doing the actual writing.
There are people who like writing! And they’re good at it!
There are people who like writing! And they’re good at it!
What happened was that an experienced human freelance journalist named Marco Buscaglia took an assignment from King Features Syndicate and wrote it with AI, in violation of their policy, whether to hit deadline, or to be able to take on more projects, or just to score a no-effort paycheck.
May 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I hate this bc I know good former freelancers who have had to start new careers bc AI stole their jobs and now you’re telling me the few freelancers left are doing a shitty job and not even doing the actual writing.
There are people who like writing! And they’re good at it!
There are people who like writing! And they’re good at it!
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Representative Becca Balint speaking on habeas corpus passionately.
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Representative Becca Balint speaking on habeas corpus passionately.