Brad Johnson
ahablives.bsky.social
Brad Johnson
@ahablives.bsky.social
A part of the Twitter Diaspora.
Also run East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, CA - @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
What am I w/out my contradictions?
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I readily admit that I’m very probably not the typically or even ideal customer though.
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Having everything I might want is usually resulting in me landing on nothing in particular.
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Told a CALIBA board member just now: “I was born to be a sociopath bureaucrat.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
People can lit-bro me all they want, but Krasznahorkai’s Seiobo There Below. In it, Beauty and Horror are never so much the flip side of one another as kaleidoscopic. It’s maybe not comforting, but it is bracing in its own way.
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Funny name. Given that at least one bookstore owner took umbrage with our locational, general name, I suspect there will be some feelings here!
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reposted by Brad Johnson
I'm obsessed with this stat: "with more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital [publishing] infrastructure is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits"
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM