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Bryce Sears
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Dad | dog and cat person | Writing a novel set in West Texas, where I’m from.
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After a year’s hiatus, I’m very excited to unveil this years winter holiday catalog. Chock-full of favorites & curiosities — an assemblage that we hope is representative of our small store. If you like, please share!

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Holiday Catalog 2025
Holiday Catalog 2025
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November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
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Of the Lovers | Issue 33
By Addison Zeller — "They are first seen, despite the general darkness, close to the window, from which they draw back prudently, it is to be supposed, in a slow lateral glide along the surface of the...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS
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BOOK REVIEW“They—all of us—are way behind, stuck in the old, familiar, small ways of thinking and unable to grasp the vast changes going on around us. ”**"How the Sea Might Speak: On Eva Meijer’s 'Sea Now'"**by Rebecca Hussey. Image: Book cover, drawing of cow on top of rock on water.
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I haven’t posted in a while what I’ve been reading. Here are books I’ve read or (finally) finished in recent months. One story here is that I fell in love with Hanne Ørstavik.
Books arranged to show their covers. Love, Stay With Me, The Pastor, and Ti Amo by Ørstavik. Artful Sentences by Tufte. Thus Were Their Faces by Ocampo, Great Fear on the Mountain by Ramuz, Daydreamers by Alvin Lu, Gurdjieff: A Beginner’s Guide by Friedman, Cowboy Apocalypse by Wagner, Night of the Living Rez by Talty, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by Saroyan.
October 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Airports should all have rooms showing Christian Marclay’s The Clock.
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.
"Not taking dance lessons is a common mistake among men. They fail to realize that dancing is one of the few things a man can learn when he’s young that will come in handy later. Men who know how to dance—even a few basic steps—will never end up sad and alone, with nobody to play with, because women will always be looking for that rare man who can dance. They’ll take him to night clubs and parties and on cruises, and they’ll go all mushy after a simple waltz." from "Gotta Dance," Collected in I Used to Be Charming
September 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The town I spent most of my time in in Texas (Leakey) doesn’t have a bookstore (though it does have a library), but I did buy some books I’m looking forward to at Alienated Majesty in Austin. Also, I had the new @alvinlu.bsky.social waiting for me when I got back.
Books on a shadowed floor: Love and Stay with Me by Hanne Orstavik, Aug. 9 Fog by Kathryn Scanlan, and Daydreamers by Alvin Lu.
August 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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My wife and I went with our 7yo to visit family in Texas and we’ve come back with a puppy (more family). Meet Scuti.

(Named, btw, after UY Scuti, the second largest known star, as suggested by our 7yo, who is very much into all things outer-space.)
A super handsome brown lab catahoula mix puppy with a water bowl spilled onto a cement porch at the edge of a partly shadowed grass lawn with a tree visible in the distance.
August 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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This is heartbreaking. My condolences to her family and friends.
electricliterature.com Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Aug 2
We write to share the tragic news that Electric Literature's former Deputy Editor, Jo Lou, passed away on July 8, 2025. What she meant to our community cannot be measured. To memorialize Jo, we have gathered tributes from EL staff and contributors. Please join us in remembering her buff.ly/ZmOEUDR
August 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Some knockout images from the Jenny Saville exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, easily one of my favourite shows this year. #Art #London #ArtSky
A painting of a woman’s face, which looks as though it might be emerging from a pool of water. The colours are remarkable, lots of reds, pinks and blues. Another face - this one looking directly at us. There’s a look of Kate Moss about it, and again, the colours are amazing. Mostly reds and pinks…blues, yellows and greens too. Another face-on portrait from the same series…with a vertical rainbow effect on the left side. Again, there’s a touch of Kate Moss here. A portrait of a man’s face, painted in a similar style to the proceeding three. Mostly reds and pinks here, with touches of yellow, blue and green.
August 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This was so great. Sara is delightful and kind for not making fun of my sunscreen-doused eye watering all the time we were together. Would like to meet all of my social-media friends in person as we can make that happen.
crouton.bsky.social Sara D Gore @crouton.bsky.social · Jul 31
Got to meet up with @brycesears5.bsky.social at Alienated Majesty. ☺️
Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson
August 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Daydreamers is out in the world now.

"A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch

"Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine

Cover concept by @illepitaph.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I've found the perfect Instagram account. Seattle's Twice Sold Tales owner Jamie recommends books and shows her cats. That's it.

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July 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I’ve been rereading Williams’s The Quick and the Dead, and I think I’m holding together now in some way the parts of what had struck me as a very funny and enjoyably strange series of vignettes.
July 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Feels like a good time to start a new to me Babitz. The other two NYRB Babitz’s are terrific, btw, if you’re also needing effervescence in your life.
A copy of Eve Babitz’s I Used to be Charming.
July 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Psst! I designed the cover for the new Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff book forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press! I had such a blast working on this because it's unlike any other cover I've designed. And the book itself is FUCKING WILD.
July 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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I picked this graphic novel up a few years ago after Dustin Illingworth and @bibliopaul.bsky.social said nice things about it. Now I’ve read it and want to recommend it to you all if you haven’t. Its story feels hopeful but hinges on some dark realities of the US media.
“Sabrina,” a graphic novel, cover up on a hardwood floor. The cover image says “Sabrina” on a pink background and shows below, on a red background, a woman with short dark hair, wearing red, shown from the shoulders up. Around her are the smaller silhouettes of other people.
July 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Post an unusual sign if you feel like it.
From the men’s room at the Penngrove Hub thrift shop. Cut outs of Alice, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and the Cheshire Cat above a sign that reads “Please Don’t Do Coke in the Bathroom.”
June 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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it's Cool Women Born in Interwar Europe Fall, get in on the ground floor
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incredible mail day at SSP HQ: we finally got review copies of “The Other Girl” by Annie Ernaux, and “Orlanda” by Jacqueline Harpman!!!
hand holding two books: “The Other Girl” by Annie Ernaux, and “Orlanda” by Jacqueline Harpman!!!
June 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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"We do not want our streets militarized ... California will never stop fighting ... Do not give in to him."

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June 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Hell of a photo
June 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Yesterday, mid-morning outside the dance studio. Sun on autumn leaves, unfiltered
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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“Bring on the Lucie” came up on a playlist I’ve made for my 6yo, and strikes the right chord for how I’m feeling lately. Free the people now. Do it do it do it now.
April 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Meeting irl the authors and long-time book twitter friends who read at this event would’ve been enough alone to make the trip to LA worth it. So glad to have gone.
nameofauthor.bsky.social [name of author] @nameofauthor.bsky.social · Mar 28
Thanks to all who attended the Indy Press reading in L.A. (& to Stories, what a great space - go buy some books there!)
March 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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In Los Angeles for the big writer shindig. But first chilaquiles at La Noche Buena on Olvera Street. Turns out it’s near my hotel.
Olvera Street, one of the oldest in Los Angeles. A walking only street of red bricks lined with food and touristy knickknack stalls and, in this photo, a red blooming bougainvillea, I think. Olvera Street, one of the oldest in Los Angeles. A walking-only street of red bricks lined with food and touristy knickknack stalls and, in this photo, a yellow-blooming tree growing tall and wide from the center of the brick street.
March 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM