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Leviathan Bookstore
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An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, near Tower Grove Park in St. Louis.

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Text entered into a Zohran Mamdani meme generator reads Leviathan Bookstore for All Kinds of Independent Readers
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Text entered into a Zohran Mamdani meme generator reads Leviathan Bookstore for All Kinds of Independent Readers
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Which of the half-dozen book recommendations in our most recent newsletter is the most interesting to you?

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Letter from Leviathan #71
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November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The newest addition to our bookwear collection is up on Instagram and comes from @bookmoon.bsky.social, which has too much integrity to be on IG itself. @gavingrant.bsky.social @kellylink.bsky.social

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See Instagram 'Bookwear' highlights from Leviathan Bookstore (@leviathanbookstore)
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November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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An evening in honor of the 50th anniversary of the last voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald! Books, stories, song, and custom cocktails! Button up your pea coat, pull on your watch cap, and join us! @johnubacon.bsky.social

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A sepia-toned infographic advertising a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Monday, November 10th from 7 to 9pm at Clements Bar, 2626 Cherokee Street. Featuring books by Leviathan Bookstore and drinks by Truckey.
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Good news for @jamescrossley.bsky.social & readers of the leviathanbookstore.com/newsletter-archive: Greer Gilman's agent is going out with a new novel right now. Ok, I weep a bit we're not going to publish it but getting more publishers for her work is fabulous. Who's Greer? Read this:
Screenshot of a recommendation by James Crossley's Letter from Leviathan #70: Cloud & Ashes by Greer Gilman When the days get shorter, I always start thinking about the mysterious, enveloping fantasies of Greer Gilman, who's published too little and whose published writings are too little known. The most recognized among them is Cloud & Ashes, winner of the Tiptree Award and a Mythopoeic Award finalist. It has been described as “a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic fable that invites revisitation.” The Washington Times accurately called it “a rich poetic prose laden with fetching archaisms that's unlike anything else being written today.” The most convincing quotes of all, though, come from Gilman herself. Look at the first line of the book: “He is met at a crossroads on a windy night, the moon in tatters and the mist unclothing stars, the way from Ask to Owlerdale: a man in black, white-headed, with a three-string fiddle in his pack.” It doesn’t matter who the man is or where on earth Owlerdale might be if you’re the sort of reader who perks up her ears at the sound of that language.
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Between Pynchon and Krasznahorkai absolutely HUGE week for brodernism. I see you, and I salute you my dudes.
October 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Free shipping for online orders today, courtesy of @bookshop.org!

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An infographic suggestive of the label on a cardboard parcel. Purple packing tape at the top bears repeated images of the Bookshop.org letter B logo and the phrase "the anti-prime sale." The address label reads "Free Shipping / 13 Hours / 40 Minutes / 45 Seconds" and "Handle with care! This Package Supports Independent Bookstores," also showing a barcode sticker.
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Blockbuster author James Patterson is once again opening his wallet to offer holiday bonuses to booksellers. If there's one you think is great, at our store or any other indie shop in the US, nominate them! All of them--there's no limit to how many you can champion!

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James Patterson Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program 2025
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October 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.
October 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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We're one of only 5 stores in the US hosting a midnight release party for Pynchon's SHADOW TICKET, publishing on Tuesday. Join us for festivities starting at 11pm on Monday, Oct. 6!

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An infographic promoting a Midnight Release Party for Thomas Pynchon's novel Shadow Ticket, starting at 11pm on Monday, October 6 at Leviathan Bookstore, 3211 South Grand Blvd. Refreshments, trivia w/prizes, & novels for sale. An image of the book's sepia-toned cover, showing a neon-lit 1930s Budapest street, with title and author name in coral and purple sans serif type appears next to the informational text, along with a cartoon drawing of the author with a paper bag over his face. A copy of Thomas Pynchon's novel Shadow Ticket stands upright on a light-colored wooden tabletop, next to a black canvas tote bag advertising the title and author name in coral and purple, topped by a black baseball cap with Shadow Ticket written on the front in purple.
October 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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justinkingdesigns.bsky.social Justin King @justinkingdesigns.bsky.social · Sep 26
Fo sho!! I got my dealer around the corner @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Join us at @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social tomorrow night for the 7:30pm screening of One Battle After Another, based on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. Your popcorn is on us if we see you wearing our bookstore merch!
Poster for Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie One Battle After Another with Thomas Pynchon’s photo superimposed onto Leonardo DiCaprio’s head
September 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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We judged a pie contest this morning and didn't get blueberry stains on any books, so today was a win
September 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Another day of wild internal yo-yoing about what to say in this space. The clown show of politics has us more coulrophobic than ever, yet there’s plenty of good news in the world we’d rather discuss. Would a rant from us help the situation? If so, consider this a red-faced, finger-pointing jeremiad.
September 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Who’s hungry?
A glass jar filled with oatmeal cookies rests on the light-colored wood counter of a bookstore next to piles of branded stickers from Leviathan Bookstore
September 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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“how do you read so many books?”
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September 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Good morning ☀️ to everyone whose favorite form of exercise is going on a long run-on sentence.
September 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"In spite of ourselves
We'll end up a'sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize"

John Prine's good for what ails you. So are bookstores. John Prine playing in a bookstore? Couldn't be better.
September 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Congrats to a small local publisher of international scope, @dorothyproject.bsky.social, for having one of their forthcoming titles added to the @nationalbook.bsky.social longlist for Nonfiction!

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The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
Check out The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam - <b>Situated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, <i>The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam </i>is an incisive response to a modernist cl...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Stanza strong! It’s been a big week for poetry sales—this stack had to be replenished, and that’s not all of them.
A pile of poetry books rests on a bookstore counter, with a few scattered face-up in front
September 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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World's longest shelf talker? It won't fit even in the alt text!
The one thing everyone knows about Transylvania is that it’s the home of Bram Stoker’s fictional Count Dracula. Most also know that it’s an actual territory in Romania. That’s true now, and has been for many decades, but it’s not the whole story. Did you know that this region was for a thousand years, from the turn of the first millennium to the early 20th century, an essential part of Hungary? The trans-sylvan “land beyond the forest” was wide and wild, and its residents were seen as more rugged and authentic than those closer to the capital city of Budapest—it seems to have occupied much the same place in the Magyar imagination that the American West does in ours. The handing over of Transylvania to Romania in the aftermath of World War I was a devastating blow. That national calamity is what Miklós Bánffy slowly, deliciously works his way toward in his sweeping trilogy. The individual volumes borrow their titles from the famous writing on the wall in the biblical book of Daniel, a prophecy about the collapse of a legendary kingdom—They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided—and together they describe the decline of a fascinating real place. The story begins as a young nobleman (a Bánffy stand-in) returns from diplomatic service abroad and is flung back into the social and political Hungarian swirl. Tempted by selfish interests but dedicated to the betterment of his society, he charts a course toward the future, beset on all sides by frivolity and obliviousness. Old ladies gossip and young ladies angle to win marital competitions while generals compare mustaches and bicker pettily about their junior status in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, all unaware that their lives are about to turn upside down. Though written in the 1930s, the trilogy is both in style and substance the last of the great 19th-century novels, grand and stately and ambitious and utterly immersive. The characters, including the upright Count Abady, the captivating Adrienne with …
September 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Quote of the Day, from THE HIGH HEAVEN by Joshua Wheeler, forthcoming from @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
The cats jumped from the counter to the floor, made their way to the window where they took up posts as lookouts. The bookseller's job was to sell books but really her job was to carefully read books and then quickly read people and then improvise a high form of mental alchemy that resulted in a definitive alteration of a customer's worldview through exposure to ideas or emotions or beauty or savagery or any experience previously unknown or even fathomed by the customer before the purchase of any book she recommended. This man wanted to fix strangeness but she was primarily in the business of purveying strangeness.
September 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Julio Cortázar's birthday fell this past week and we celebrated by recommending the book he wrote with his wife, Carol Dunlop, AUTONAUTS OF THE COSMOROUTE, in our newsletter. Partner projects like this one are close to our Leviathan's heart! @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

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Author Julio Cortazar, bearded and lanky, sits in a cane chair wearing a turtleneck and reaching up across his chest with his left hand to touch the right hand of his standing wife, Carol Dunlop, who sports stylishly short hair and a menswear-inspired striped top in this black-and-white photo. Superimposed over it is the bright yellow and white cover of the book they wrote together, Autonauts of the Cosmoroute. Additional text announces it was "Recommended in this week's newsletter."
August 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The internet is awash with orange glitter because we’re all abuzz about long-awaited new work from the leading artist of our age. It’s a new Era and we’re not just on the bandwagon, we’re leading the parade! Man, the first week of October is going to be lit! @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
The cover art for Taylor Swift's Life of a Showgirl album on a background of orange glitter, but altered so that her body, clad in a scanty showgirl costume, is topped by the heavily made-up face of a young Thomas Pynchon and the title reads "Life of a Recluse." A copy of Thomas Pynchon's novel Shadow Ticket floats on a background of orange glitter, with text below it reading "October 7, 2025."
August 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM