James Meader
@jameader.bsky.social
Part of the publishing team at @ireadvintage and Everyman's Library. Grady’s dad.
Like @joe-hill.bsky.social, I remember watching 'Salem's Lot on TV when I was a kid. Of course, I wasn't watching from @stephenking.bsky.social's living room. Via @nytimes.com, here's Joe on his dad's classic, which turns 50 next month. @ireadvintage.bsky.social
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So You Think Stephen King Has Scared You? Try Being His Son.
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September 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Like @joe-hill.bsky.social, I remember watching 'Salem's Lot on TV when I was a kid. Of course, I wasn't watching from @stephenking.bsky.social's living room. Via @nytimes.com, here's Joe on his dad's classic, which turns 50 next month. @ireadvintage.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...
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James Baldwin didn’t believe in reform; he believed in revolution. “Anything less than a total social reckoning—a complete psychological makeover of white America—was worthless,” Louis Menand writes.
The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin
An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.
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August 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
James Baldwin didn’t believe in reform; he believed in revolution. “Anything less than a total social reckoning—a complete psychological makeover of white America—was worthless,” Louis Menand writes.
"If your library has a dedicated space for Tolstoy, there should be room for Resurrection, which contains some of the most powerful scenes he ever wrote..."
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Fiction: Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Resurrection’
A long-neglected novel by the author of ‘Anna Karenina’ tracks a privileged man’s confrontation with his own moral failures.
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August 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"If your library has a dedicated space for Tolstoy, there should be room for Resurrection, which contains some of the most powerful scenes he ever wrote..."
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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John Haskell has been one of my favorite writers for a couple decades now. New book out this fall, a "slim but potent volume...An unconventional and quietly eloquent rumination on what it means to live well." via @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9781573662147
Trying to Be: A Collection by John Haskell
Novelist Haskell (Out of My Skin) ventures into nonfiction with this slim but potent volume. He begins by reflecting on the work...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
John Haskell has been one of my favorite writers for a couple decades now. New book out this fall, a "slim but potent volume...An unconventional and quietly eloquent rumination on what it means to live well." via @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9781573662147
My son’s reading Animal Farm. He just got to the part where Boxer is taken to “the doctor.” I know this because I heard him exclaim, 2 rooms away, “This is BULLshit!!!”
July 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My son’s reading Animal Farm. He just got to the part where Boxer is taken to “the doctor.” I know this because I heard him exclaim, 2 rooms away, “This is BULLshit!!!”
RIP Chuck Mangione www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtx...
Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good (Nana's Journey Into Song, March 8th, 1979)
YouTube video by Chuck Mangione
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July 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
RIP Chuck Mangione www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtx...
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It's raining. Again.
July 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It's raining. Again.
“Minden was genuinely convinced that a paperback in the right hands could help crack the cement of totalitarian thinking…”
Winning the Cold War With le Carré and Cosmopolitan Magazine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
Winning the Cold War With le Carré and Cosmopolitan Magazine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
Winning the Cold War With le Carré and Cosmopolitan Magazine
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July 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
“Minden was genuinely convinced that a paperback in the right hands could help crack the cement of totalitarian thinking…”
Winning the Cold War With le Carré and Cosmopolitan Magazine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
Winning the Cold War With le Carré and Cosmopolitan Magazine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
Jonathan Lethem on James Salter via @publisherswkly.bsky.social: "When someone is such a perfectionist and his prose is so exquisite, there are no bad books. But I think LIGHT YEARS is the one that bears the most rereading and the most contemplation..."
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Writers Talking Writers: Jess Walter on Charles Portis and Jonathan Lethem on James Salter
The National Book Award finalist talks about Portis's appeal as the “patron saint of journalists who become novelists” and the National Book Critics Circle Award winner discusses Salter's “breathtakin...
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June 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Jonathan Lethem on James Salter via @publisherswkly.bsky.social: "When someone is such a perfectionist and his prose is so exquisite, there are no bad books. But I think LIGHT YEARS is the one that bears the most rereading and the most contemplation..."
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
How Do You Adapt James Baldwin? Very Carefully. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/t...
How Do You Adapt James Baldwin? Very Carefully.
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June 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
How Do You Adapt James Baldwin? Very Carefully. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/t...
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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?
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June 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
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Exactly.
So far today I've received 28 pitches for upcoming books. By 28 different publicists representing 28 different authors. There is so little space to cover any of them. Which is why this AI-created and unedited by humans summer reading list is such a slap in the face.
May 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Exactly.
James Salter's LIGHT YEARS turns 50 next month (which would also have been Salter's 100th birthday) and we have a repackage coming from @ireadvintage.bsky.social that is too beautiful for words.
May 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
James Salter's LIGHT YEARS turns 50 next month (which would also have been Salter's 100th birthday) and we have a repackage coming from @ireadvintage.bsky.social that is too beautiful for words.
Rocket Man is great and all, but recently I've been on a late 70s / early 80s Elton John kick. Enjoy (thread):
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Little Jeannie
YouTube video by Elton John - Topic
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May 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Rocket Man is great and all, but recently I've been on a late 70s / early 80s Elton John kick. Enjoy (thread):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4q6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4q6...
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Publishers are joining in the fight against book banning. The CEO of Macmillan, Jon Yaged, says, “The battlefront is really everywhere there's a school, everywhere there's a library, every community. Someone's got to say something, & the publishers are starting to say something.” #Velshi
Velshi Banned Book Club: Publishers Enter the Book Banning Battle
As part of an Executive Order signed in mid-March, the Trump Administration ordered several governmental entities be stripped down. One of them is called the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The IMLS is a tiny, independent federal agency with just about 70 employees. It provides funding for public libraries in every single state and territory. Could this be the beginning of the end for the main source of federal support for public libraries? Many people fear that the answer is yes. But some people – publishers, authors, and libraries – aren’t waiting around to find out. They’re fighting back. One of those people is Jon Yaged, the CEO of Macmillan Publishers.
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April 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Publishers are joining in the fight against book banning. The CEO of Macmillan, Jon Yaged, says, “The battlefront is really everywhere there's a school, everywhere there's a library, every community. Someone's got to say something, & the publishers are starting to say something.” #Velshi
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Publishers Ask Congress to Defend Libraries as Federal Library Grant Funding Ends publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... via @publisherswkly.bsky.social
Publishers Ask Congress to Defend Libraries as Federal Library Grant Funding Ends
Four of the Big Five publishers and Sourcebooks sent a letter to Congress on April 3 expressing “deep concern” for the nation’s libraries following a week of unprecedented turmoil at the Institute of ...
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April 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Publishers Ask Congress to Defend Libraries as Federal Library Grant Funding Ends publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... via @publisherswkly.bsky.social
Trump is an arsonist. Full stop.
April 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Trump is an arsonist. Full stop.
The PRH server just returned an error page reading:
"To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy"
And I've gotta say, I'm feeling seen.
"To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy"
And I've gotta say, I'm feeling seen.
April 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The PRH server just returned an error page reading:
"To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy"
And I've gotta say, I'm feeling seen.
"To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy"
And I've gotta say, I'm feeling seen.
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Secretary Lutnick: You are a billionaire.
Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would.
They're not fraudsters. They earned it.
How out of touch are you not to realize that?
Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would.
They're not fraudsters. They earned it.
How out of touch are you not to realize that?
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Secretary Lutnick: You are a billionaire.
Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would.
They're not fraudsters. They earned it.
How out of touch are you not to realize that?
Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would.
They're not fraudsters. They earned it.
How out of touch are you not to realize that?
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Defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe. If Elon doesn't understand that, maybe he should leave it to those of us who do.
Musk calls Sen. Kelly a 'traitor' over trip to Ukraine, Kelly hits back
Elon Musk called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly a "traitor" in a post on X after Kelly posted that he had visited Ukraine over the weekend.
abcnews.go.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe. If Elon doesn't understand that, maybe he should leave it to those of us who do.
"There are certain books that bide their time...waiting decades to flower...If a copy of THE UNDERGROUND MAN, a novel from 1971, by Ross Macdonald, has been sitting on your shelf for ages...try opening it now. Suddlenly it's a book in full bloom."
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The Classic Mystery That Prefigured the Los Angeles Wildfires
Ross Macdonald’s “The Underground Man” is exquisitely attuned to the Californian landscape—how it rises, falls, smells, and, most indelible of all, how it burns.
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March 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"There are certain books that bide their time...waiting decades to flower...If a copy of THE UNDERGROUND MAN, a novel from 1971, by Ross Macdonald, has been sitting on your shelf for ages...try opening it now. Suddlenly it's a book in full bloom."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What a petty, petty, petty, small man.
March 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
What a petty, petty, petty, small man.
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It’s like that gallows humor joke people sometimes told in the last years of Mobitu’s Zaire:
Daddy what did people do for light at night before there were candles?
Well, son, we had electricity.
Daddy what did people do for light at night before there were candles?
Well, son, we had electricity.
Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.
March 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s like that gallows humor joke people sometimes told in the last years of Mobitu’s Zaire:
Daddy what did people do for light at night before there were candles?
Well, son, we had electricity.
Daddy what did people do for light at night before there were candles?
Well, son, we had electricity.