Josh Cook
@joshthelibromancer.bsky.social
Co-owner of @portersqbooks.bsky.social Author of The Art of Libromancy & An Exaggerated Murder. Opinions my own. BlueSky for @authorsabb.bsky.social & @massaabb.bsky.social He/him https://linktr.ee/joshthelibromancer
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· Oct 21
www.portersquarebooks.com
An intro post for the latest BlueSky wave! I'm a writer & bookseller w/ @portersqbooks.bsky.social where I mostly hype books from small presses written by marginalized voices or works in translation. If you're into the books on this list www.portersquarebooks.com/category/sta... you dig my taste
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Layli Long Soldier's poem 38 from the collection Whereas is worthy of your time today
38
If this is the first time you’ve heard of it, you might wonder, “What is the Dakota 38?” The Dakota 38 refers to thirty eight Dakota men who were executed by hanging, under orders from President Abra...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Layli Long Soldier's poem 38 from the collection Whereas is worthy of your time today
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🦋 Welcome to Buesky! 🦋
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🦋 Welcome to Buesky! 🦋
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
Hold the fuck up! Listen, I have seen what you all publish & how you justify it and y'all are passing on something that booksellers could put right next to On Tyranny. My eyes do not have enough side.
Also: I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Publishing, let me write a media literacy book, I am begging you. I keep being told that there's no appetite for this...
But how can there NOT be, when it's an urgent and pressing issue, especially with how we aggregate news + use of AI?
Publishing, let me write a media literacy book, I am begging you. I keep being told that there's no appetite for this...
But how can there NOT be, when it's an urgent and pressing issue, especially with how we aggregate news + use of AI?
December 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Hold the fuck up! Listen, I have seen what you all publish & how you justify it and y'all are passing on something that booksellers could put right next to On Tyranny. My eyes do not have enough side.
Not the important part of this, but...you don't need to respect conservative arguments or ideas because they sure as fuck don't respect yours. Deplatform on everu platform
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Not the important part of this, but...you don't need to respect conservative arguments or ideas because they sure as fuck don't respect yours. Deplatform on everu platform
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That's a wrap on the holiday season! We'll be closed tomorrow (for the holiday) & Friday (for a breather) and back to standard hours on Saturday (8AM-7PM) Our website is open, though please allow a little extra processing time as we catch up. Thank you and happy holidays! portersquarebooks.com
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December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
That's a wrap on the holiday season! We'll be closed tomorrow (for the holiday) & Friday (for a breather) and back to standard hours on Saturday (8AM-7PM) Our website is open, though please allow a little extra processing time as we catch up. Thank you and happy holidays! portersquarebooks.com
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Are you… well, you know…
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Are you a… FRIEND OF THE PUSS?
Well now, for only $99 per year, you can make it official! It’s the gay marriage of liking books too much!
SIGN UP to be a FRIEND OF THE PUSS for the discounted introductory price of only $99/year including shipping!
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Annual LittlePuss Subscription — Become a Friend of the Puss — LittlePuss Press
Automatically receive every book each year as they’re published, plus an annual package of secret subscribers-only swag! Are you… well, you know… do you have more than two edges to your battle-axe?...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Are you… well, you know…
Are you a… FRIEND OF THE PUSS?
Well now, for only $99 per year, you can make it official! It’s the gay marriage of liking books too much!
SIGN UP to be a FRIEND OF THE PUSS for the discounted introductory price of only $99/year including shipping!
shorturl.at/NYRRw
Are you a… FRIEND OF THE PUSS?
Well now, for only $99 per year, you can make it official! It’s the gay marriage of liking books too much!
SIGN UP to be a FRIEND OF THE PUSS for the discounted introductory price of only $99/year including shipping!
shorturl.at/NYRRw
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The best feeling in writing is that feeling when all the cobwebs clear and you're like YES that is THE ANSWER!!!
I cannot imagine just...never experiencing that.
I cannot imagine just...never experiencing that.
December 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The best feeling in writing is that feeling when all the cobwebs clear and you're like YES that is THE ANSWER!!!
I cannot imagine just...never experiencing that.
I cannot imagine just...never experiencing that.
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Well, friends, we are right down to it now. Though there's nothing wrong with a gift card, here are some great last minute gift ideas for the reader in your life that aren't, you know, gift cards...
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Well, friends, we are right down to it now. Though there's nothing wrong with a gift card, here are some great last minute gift ideas for the reader in your life that aren't, you know, gift cards...
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I won’t be taking any criticism from these folks about what’s normal and what isn’t, thanks though
December 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I won’t be taking any criticism from these folks about what’s normal and what isn’t, thanks though
From Susan Cooper's The Shortest Day, a poem of the winter solstice:
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
December 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
From Susan Cooper's The Shortest Day, a poem of the winter solstice:
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
"They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
and hope for peace."
That's really everything, isn't is. Not just today, but in life. Everything else either feeds into or draws away from them
The cost to get us from where we are now to a dramatically better world with drastically less material suffering is, frankly, paltry when compared to the wealth in our economy
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The cost to get us from where we are now to a dramatically better world with drastically less material suffering is, frankly, paltry when compared to the wealth in our economy
You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
I've only got one day left for the holidays, but it's the last Saturday before Xmas.
Can Josh sell anymore copies of Melvill? Can anyone sell our copy of portersquarebooks.com/book/9781421...
Melvill
Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award Winner of the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize, USA & Canada A dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his ruin, and his most beautiful journey--the crossing on foot of the frozen Hudson River. His son, still a child, sits at the foot of the bed, attentively collecting these final, hallucinated words. Could the work of Herman Melville--masterful author, misunderstood, far too ahead of his time, and considered crazy and dangerous by some critics--have as its source this ultimate paternal legacy? Questioning the intricacies of fiction, which constantly oscillatates between reality and imagination, Rodrigo Fres n's approaches the enigma of the literary vocation in a new light. An invented biography, a gothic novel populated by ghosts, and an evocation of a filial love, Melvill contains all the talent, humor, and immense culture found in the other great works from one of Spanish literature's most ambitious writers.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I've only got one day left for the holidays, but it's the last Saturday before Xmas.
Doom-scrolling break with some kickass books that are 20% off and actually in stock!
As promised, here's another big old thread of staff picks that still (less than a week out!) have strong stock. These were all selected by individual booksellers & are 20% off because we want the world to read them! Here we go...
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Doom-scrolling break with some kickass books that are 20% off and actually in stock!
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Thank you to @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social for the gift that keeps on giving, the one recommendation that hit, this one cool trick that will change your life. 2026: TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR HOPELESS CAUSE 🥂
December 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Thank you to @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social for the gift that keeps on giving, the one recommendation that hit, this one cool trick that will change your life. 2026: TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR HOPELESS CAUSE 🥂
Fuckin' A it's like what if The D.E.N.N.I.S Method was a government
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Fuckin' A it's like what if The D.E.N.N.I.S Method was a government
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Hey #BookSky! Today is your last chance to get book recommendations for the holidays from us! Tell us who you still need a book for & we'll do as many as we can tonight!
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Hey #BookSky! Today is your last chance to get book recommendations for the holidays from us! Tell us who you still need a book for & we'll do as many as we can tonight!
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It's astonishing that somehow we have whole swathes of the political class that have not managed to connect "everything seems like a scam now" to a useful political platform.
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's astonishing that somehow we have whole swathes of the political class that have not managed to connect "everything seems like a scam now" to a useful political platform.
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“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
The thing that really gets me is back in 2014 I think bigots in NC tried to pass a bathroom ban & it blew up in their faces & when these same people came back with "fairness in sports" too many people took them seriously when it was an obvious change in tactics!
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The thing that really gets me is back in 2014 I think bigots in NC tried to pass a bathroom ban & it blew up in their faces & when these same people came back with "fairness in sports" too many people took them seriously when it was an obvious change in tactics!
I honestly don't understand why any Democrats would vote for ANYTHING Republicans are proposing now.
December 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I honestly don't understand why any Democrats would vote for ANYTHING Republicans are proposing now.
I'm done for the holidays on Saturday at 2 so if you want me to pick out 3 books for you for the holidays, get the order in ASAP! Josh Sends You Three Paperbacks | Porter Square Books share.google/XGsbeZMlKD4l...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I'm done for the holidays on Saturday at 2 so if you want me to pick out 3 books for you for the holidays, get the order in ASAP! Josh Sends You Three Paperbacks | Porter Square Books share.google/XGsbeZMlKD4l...
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Hi #BookSky! Just breaking away for a quick sec to tell you that your Blind Dates with a Books are ALWAYS in stock because we pull the books off the shelf!
Blind Date with a Book
Let the libromancers at Porter Square Books pick out a paperback for you! Use the order comments in check out to tell us a little bit more about the books you like to read.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hi #BookSky! Just breaking away for a quick sec to tell you that your Blind Dates with a Books are ALWAYS in stock because we pull the books off the shelf!
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We crunched some numbers and in 2025, there were 333 districts with elections who had “Censorship Attacks” recorded in 2023. In those districts’ races, pro-book candidates dominated over anti-book candidates by a 3:1 ratio! See all the details on Insta! www.instagram.com/p/DSTccMngR3...
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We crunched some numbers and in 2025, there were 333 districts with elections who had “Censorship Attacks” recorded in 2023. In those districts’ races, pro-book candidates dominated over anti-book candidates by a 3:1 ratio! See all the details on Insta! www.instagram.com/p/DSTccMngR3...
You know who I'm getting a little vibe of in this? Lina Wolff. Yes, that Lina Wolff
Started this a couple of nights ago and if you, like me, have been waiting for authors to do more exploration in the physical space of a book a la House of Leaves well 👇
Friends! I bring good news of the world to come!! My novel is coming out May 19, 2026. And it is available for pre-order now! Either at your local bookstore or at the link below!
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
You know who I'm getting a little vibe of in this? Lina Wolff. Yes, that Lina Wolff