Brad Craft
@usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social
Long time bookseller, writes a little, draws a lot, reads aloud in public but not unannounced
Got a poster in the lobby. A Christmas Memory. Remember? 18th year. Hope to see YOU there. Saturday, December 6th at 6pm
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Got a poster in the lobby. A Christmas Memory. Remember? 18th year. Hope to see YOU there. Saturday, December 6th at 6pm
He rolled his big, beautiful, Bette Davis eyes, drawled some idiotic dialogue in an accent that was never not thick as spätzle, and was just gay as a Christmas goose in chop frills. Köstlichkeit! I will miss the campy, doe-eyed anarchy of Udo Kier. Ruhe in Frieden, meine Königin. #rip #udokier
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
‘Cause nothin’ says we down with all the androgynous K-pop cuties, brah, like a 62 year old man in bibs and with a thick book.
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
‘Cause nothin’ says we down with all the androgynous K-pop cuties, brah, like a 62 year old man in bibs and with a thick book.
Why do I (so far) remain committed to Solvej Balle’s septology? The protagonist, stuck perhaps forever in an endlessly repeating November 18th is or was a used book dealer. There’s that. The Calculation of Volume from New Directions, translated by Sophie Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Why do I (so far) remain committed to Solvej Balle’s septology? The protagonist, stuck perhaps forever in an endlessly repeating November 18th is or was a used book dealer. There’s that. The Calculation of Volume from New Directions, translated by Sophie Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
“Umm Hassan is dead.” Good start right there. Epic novel of the Palestinian exile in Lebanon. Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury (1948 - 2024,) translated by Humphrey Davies for Archipelago Books
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“Umm Hassan is dead.” Good start right there. Epic novel of the Palestinian exile in Lebanon. Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury (1948 - 2024,) translated by Humphrey Davies for Archipelago Books
Couldn’t think who the passive protagonist of Szalay’s Booker winning Flesh reminded me of… Chance the gardener from Being There, maybe? Then it hit me. Pete Davidson’s Chad from SNL.
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Couldn’t think who the passive protagonist of Szalay’s Booker winning Flesh reminded me of… Chance the gardener from Being There, maybe? Then it hit me. Pete Davidson’s Chad from SNL.
Oh, Jonathan where are you? Why are you not here yet?!
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh, Jonathan where are you? Why are you not here yet?!
Ordered myself the hardcover. Bless Gordon S. Wood
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Ordered myself the hardcover. Bless Gordon S. Wood
December 6th at 6pm. 18th year reading Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory aloud at the bookstore (also live on Facebook)
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
December 6th at 6pm. 18th year reading Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory aloud at the bookstore (also live on Facebook)
From New Vessel Press, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden, My Dreadful Body, by Azerbaijani novelist Egana Djabbarova. “According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.” Delightful. (Comes out April 7, 2026.)
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
From New Vessel Press, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden, My Dreadful Body, by Azerbaijani novelist Egana Djabbarova. “According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.” Delightful. (Comes out April 7, 2026.)
“Who, or why, or which, or what is the Akond of Swat?” Was there ever a likelier time for nonsense? And so to dear Lear we turn.
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Who, or why, or which, or what is the Akond of Swat?” Was there ever a likelier time for nonsense? And so to dear Lear we turn.
If you can read a chapter heading like “Horrible Death of Beaudrot and Swiss Soldiers,” or Chapter XXI, “Is Sentimental, but Short,” from The Newcomes and not want to keep reading, then we will never understand each other, my friend.
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
If you can read a chapter heading like “Horrible Death of Beaudrot and Swiss Soldiers,” or Chapter XXI, “Is Sentimental, but Short,” from The Newcomes and not want to keep reading, then we will never understand each other, my friend.
I like her books at least as much as her Dad’s. How unlikely is that?! True though. She’s that good. @susancheever.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I like her books at least as much as her Dad’s. How unlikely is that?! True though. She’s that good. @susancheever.bsky.social
It is a constant source of continuous amazement to me that I should live to see in 2025 the entirety of the NYT opinion page staffed by a DAR ladies garden club circa 1951.
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It is a constant source of continuous amazement to me that I should live to see in 2025 the entirety of the NYT opinion page staffed by a DAR ladies garden club circa 1951.
There’s another winner from yesterday who makes me very, very happy. Australian Helen Garner has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, specifically for her How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998. She’s the first diarist to win.
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
There’s another winner from yesterday who makes me very, very happy. Australian Helen Garner has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, specifically for her How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998. She’s the first diarist to win.
Falling forward falling back
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Falling forward falling back
Consider the humble Medjool date. I only mention because if you grew up where and when I did you probably only saw dates in that round tin at Christmas or in a bread. I am just amazed at how far on the downslope I had to travel before I had the sense to try things I didn’t like when I was four.
November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Consider the humble Medjool date. I only mention because if you grew up where and when I did you probably only saw dates in that round tin at Christmas or in a bread. I am just amazed at how far on the downslope I had to travel before I had the sense to try things I didn’t like when I was four.
Reading Harper Lee’s juvenilia I learned her favorite book was Pickett’s History of Alabama. I’m game. Ordered a copy.
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reading Harper Lee’s juvenilia I learned her favorite book was Pickett’s History of Alabama. I’m game. Ordered a copy.
Liver and onions (my fave) with fresh green beans and rice and I roasted a stupid bunch of red and gold beets (along with heads of garlic and parsnips and carrots for later) and then finished the beets in a pan with butter, herbs, and some of the roasted garlic. And now tv with the beloved husband.
October 31, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Liver and onions (my fave) with fresh green beans and rice and I roasted a stupid bunch of red and gold beets (along with heads of garlic and parsnips and carrots for later) and then finished the beets in a pan with butter, herbs, and some of the roasted garlic. And now tv with the beloved husband.
Dude. Harper Lee — in a damned ballgown?! Way to not represent.
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Dude. Harper Lee — in a damned ballgown?! Way to not represent.
Kathy Burke, A Mind of My Own, on audio book, read by the author? Perfect
October 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Kathy Burke, A Mind of My Own, on audio book, read by the author? Perfect
Yeah, Daphne Du Maurier spooky stories! Perfect October reading from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Yeah, Daphne Du Maurier spooky stories! Perfect October reading from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
The beloved husband thinks my ass is crazy for liking some hot dishes cold from the refrigerator: salmon cakes, steamed or roasted vegetables, and yes, even his homemade chicken and noodles. You got anything you eat cold that might seem weird to someone else?
October 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The beloved husband thinks my ass is crazy for liking some hot dishes cold from the refrigerator: salmon cakes, steamed or roasted vegetables, and yes, even his homemade chicken and noodles. You got anything you eat cold that might seem weird to someone else?