Samizdat Bookstore and Teahouse
@samizdatbookstore.bsky.social
Bookstore in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Established 2021.
Let the lie come into the world; let it even triumph. But not through me.
Let the lie come into the world; let it even triumph. But not through me.
We are absolutely not the same.
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
We are absolutely not the same.
Supper club is every Monday from 5-8pm. Get a big bowl of vegan and gluten free beans for $7 or $5 or nothing, whatever you can pay. Also, bring your bookworm brigade bag and get 20% off of all retail items you can fit inside!
Our local bookstore @samizdatbookstore.bsky.social is hosting Monday night supper club. It’s cheap or free if you can’t pay at all. This is why we need bookstores: they’re not just a shop, they’re a community space. There were over 20 people tonight. And we all sat together and talked and ate.
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Supper club is every Monday from 5-8pm. Get a big bowl of vegan and gluten free beans for $7 or $5 or nothing, whatever you can pay. Also, bring your bookworm brigade bag and get 20% off of all retail items you can fit inside!
Everything is wrong with this, but on a purely selfish note from a Northern New Mexico bookstore, IAIA is a robust pipeline for authors and poets in addition to being a local information resource. When I’m in the plaza area I talk to their staff (and buy books) and get great recommendations.
Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is slated to have its entire budget cut. Art is how we imagine ourselves and our future, not just for individual artists but for communities and Indian Country in general. The future is a dark mountain. We need Native Artists to light the way.
#IAIA
#IAIA
July 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Everything is wrong with this, but on a purely selfish note from a Northern New Mexico bookstore, IAIA is a robust pipeline for authors and poets in addition to being a local information resource. When I’m in the plaza area I talk to their staff (and buy books) and get great recommendations.
The second most popular teenager purchase today (#1 being boba) was the Smithsonian edition of The Constitution of the United States of America.
July 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The second most popular teenager purchase today (#1 being boba) was the Smithsonian edition of The Constitution of the United States of America.
The authors of Banned Book Club will be participating in the Pajarito Literary Festival (remotely) May 10th. We have lots of copies of Banned Book Club in store now!
April 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The authors of Banned Book Club will be participating in the Pajarito Literary Festival (remotely) May 10th. We have lots of copies of Banned Book Club in store now!
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Today at ICv2, I talked to @ryanestrada.com about his and Kim Hyun Sook's decision to cancel their planned trip to the U.S.: icv2.com/articles/new...
Eisner Nominated 'Banned Book Club' Creators Speak Out on Canceled Book Tour
Why Ryan Estrada and Kim Hyun Sook Won't Be Coming to the U.S. in 2025
icv2.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Today at ICv2, I talked to @ryanestrada.com about his and Kim Hyun Sook's decision to cancel their planned trip to the U.S.: icv2.com/articles/new...
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Lit Fest tickets are on sale! We have 12 confirmed authors, poets, and artists doing speaking engagments and signings ranging from talks on folklore and banned books, to discussions with local children's authors! Whew, can we do it folks? I think we can! www.losalamosartscouncil.org/pajarito-lit
General 2 — Los Alamos Arts Council
www.losalamosartscouncil.org
April 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Lit Fest tickets are on sale! We have 12 confirmed authors, poets, and artists doing speaking engagments and signings ranging from talks on folklore and banned books, to discussions with local children's authors! Whew, can we do it folks? I think we can! www.losalamosartscouncil.org/pajarito-lit
We have books on all sorts of topics.
Someone asked us today if we have a banned books section and we were like that’s the whole store.
Someone asked us today if we have a banned books section and we were like that’s the whole store.
March 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
We have books on all sorts of topics.
Someone asked us today if we have a banned books section and we were like that’s the whole store.
Someone asked us today if we have a banned books section and we were like that’s the whole store.
It’s been our general philosophy that when it’s, for example, Black History Month, we should simply be able to go to the stacks and pull relevant books and make a display, no special orders needed. If we can’t do that, we’ve slipped up along the way and need to reevaluate our ordering.
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
It’s been our general philosophy that when it’s, for example, Black History Month, we should simply be able to go to the stacks and pull relevant books and make a display, no special orders needed. If we can’t do that, we’ve slipped up along the way and need to reevaluate our ordering.
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Valentine’s is coming! Parents need a night out and a night off. Also, the world is on fire! and we all want to do *something*. These two events aren’t related in anything but proximity of timing, but we’re not going to let that stop us!
lasteamlab.com/shop/parent-...
lasteamlab.com/shop/parent-...
February 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Valentine’s is coming! Parents need a night out and a night off. Also, the world is on fire! and we all want to do *something*. These two events aren’t related in anything but proximity of timing, but we’re not going to let that stop us!
lasteamlab.com/shop/parent-...
lasteamlab.com/shop/parent-...
Also tea. Much of our tea comes from Canadian distributors. We got a big order across the border a couple days ago. But we can’t order massive stock in advance. We don’t know what this means for pricing yet. We are not raising prices in advance, though :)
A few things Trump just made more expensive for you:
Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup
Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup
February 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Also tea. Much of our tea comes from Canadian distributors. We got a big order across the border a couple days ago. But we can’t order massive stock in advance. We don’t know what this means for pricing yet. We are not raising prices in advance, though :)
Blurbs are almost entirely useless and when a cover is particularly beautiful the presence of a blurb ruins it. Unless that blurb is “Daddy’s diary definitely delivers.” Which is on a book we received this week.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Why Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint Won’t Require Blurbs Anymore
In a decision some might call “stunning” or a “tour-de-force,” new S&S publisher Sean Manning has decided to no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books. Here’s why.
www.publishersweekly.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Blurbs are almost entirely useless and when a cover is particularly beautiful the presence of a blurb ruins it. Unless that blurb is “Daddy’s diary definitely delivers.” Which is on a book we received this week.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Bookshop is now doing e-books! When you use Bookshop for your online purchases and choose us as your beneficiary, it has a significant impact. We will use the Q4 payment at the end of January to cover a week of payroll. We are so grateful for your support.
bookshop.org/ebooks
bookshop.org/ebooks
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January 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Bookshop is now doing e-books! When you use Bookshop for your online purchases and choose us as your beneficiary, it has a significant impact. We will use the Q4 payment at the end of January to cover a week of payroll. We are so grateful for your support.
bookshop.org/ebooks
bookshop.org/ebooks
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COMMUNITY INFORMATION SESSION
Post Election, here's what we can do. Please RSVP and join our virtual discussion!
RSVP here: bit.ly/41Fw3fl
COMMUNITY INFORMATION SESSION
Post Election, here's what we can do. Please RSVP and join our virtual discussion!
RSVP here: bit.ly/41Fw3fl
January 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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COMMUNITY INFORMATION SESSION
Post Election, here's what we can do. Please RSVP and join our virtual discussion!
RSVP here: bit.ly/41Fw3fl
COMMUNITY INFORMATION SESSION
Post Election, here's what we can do. Please RSVP and join our virtual discussion!
RSVP here: bit.ly/41Fw3fl
Hey Los Alamos, uh, good luck on your next travel to the Nevada Test Site?
The Heritage Foundation’s Bob Peters now recommends that if the US cannot develop the ability to conduct an underground nuclear test in Nevada within 3-6 months of an order to do so, it consider withdrawing from the 1962 Limited Test Ban Treaty and resuming open-air testing in Nevada or the Pacific.
January 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Hey Los Alamos, uh, good luck on your next travel to the Nevada Test Site?
Our bestselling book of the holiday season.
December 15, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Our bestselling book of the holiday season.
If you’re downtown tomorrow for Winterfest weekend, stop by the bookstore and Fuller Lodge Art Center for free gifts!
When you bring a Saturday Samizdat receipt to the Art Center, you’ll get a free bookmark. Bring us a receipt from the Art Center and you’ll get a free recycled sari gift wrap!
When you bring a Saturday Samizdat receipt to the Art Center, you’ll get a free bookmark. Bring us a receipt from the Art Center and you’ll get a free recycled sari gift wrap!
December 7, 2024 at 1:03 AM
If you’re downtown tomorrow for Winterfest weekend, stop by the bookstore and Fuller Lodge Art Center for free gifts!
When you bring a Saturday Samizdat receipt to the Art Center, you’ll get a free bookmark. Bring us a receipt from the Art Center and you’ll get a free recycled sari gift wrap!
When you bring a Saturday Samizdat receipt to the Art Center, you’ll get a free bookmark. Bring us a receipt from the Art Center and you’ll get a free recycled sari gift wrap!
Ever wonder about those recycled sari scarves we have hanging up by the register? We have them there so folks can use them for reusable furoshiki gift wrap. On this Black Friday, get one free wrap with every hardcover book you purchase!
November 29, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Ever wonder about those recycled sari scarves we have hanging up by the register? We have them there so folks can use them for reusable furoshiki gift wrap. On this Black Friday, get one free wrap with every hardcover book you purchase!
Join us for poetry night on Friday, November 15th from 6 to 8 pm. Read your own poetry, read another author’s work, or just hang out. Very informal, everyone is welcome.
November 15, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Join us for poetry night on Friday, November 15th from 6 to 8 pm. Read your own poetry, read another author’s work, or just hang out. Very informal, everyone is welcome.