Buzz Poole
@buzzpoole.bsky.social
Sandorf Passage co-founder and publisher
sandorfpassage.org
Author of Workingman’s Dead, part of the 33 1/3 series
Writer, editor, aspiring full-time putterer
sandorfpassage.org
Author of Workingman’s Dead, part of the 33 1/3 series
Writer, editor, aspiring full-time putterer
Wow! Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat is a breathtakingly sad and stunning read.
October 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Wow! Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat is a breathtakingly sad and stunning read.
If only all bookstores pushed @sandorfpassage.bsky.social titles like they do here in Zagreb.
October 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
If only all bookstores pushed @sandorfpassage.bsky.social titles like they do here in Zagreb.
Do you know the Piccolo album, recorded live at Sweet Basil? Incredible version of “Tambien Concocido Como.” This album also ranks high in my best record store finds of all time: $3.99 for four sides of soulful magic (from Amoeba in Berkeley, no less).
August 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Do you know the Piccolo album, recorded live at Sweet Basil? Incredible version of “Tambien Concocido Como.” This album also ranks high in my best record store finds of all time: $3.99 for four sides of soulful magic (from Amoeba in Berkeley, no less).
Portland, Maine, friends: Do you like books, talking about books, and Japanese time-travel sci-fi? Then join me August 5 for the Back Cove Books Book Club, where we’ll be discussing Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi.
July 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Portland, Maine, friends: Do you like books, talking about books, and Japanese time-travel sci-fi? Then join me August 5 for the Back Cove Books Book Club, where we’ll be discussing Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi.
Virtuosic legends this evening @spacegallery.bsky.social. Thrilling to hear, and be transported by, the friendship between David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar.
June 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Virtuosic legends this evening @spacegallery.bsky.social. Thrilling to hear, and be transported by, the friendship between David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar.
@heartsofpine.bsky.social, what a match! That was FUN!
May 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
@heartsofpine.bsky.social, what a match! That was FUN!
What a treat to escape the harried welter of Canal Street yesterday to see @bourgwick.bsky.social and the rest of Sloppy Heads vibrate the art at CANADA.
May 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
What a treat to escape the harried welter of Canal Street yesterday to see @bourgwick.bsky.social and the rest of Sloppy Heads vibrate the art at CANADA.
Read @bekahwaalkes.bsky.social on Italo Calvino covers. We both share an affinity for the Harvest Books editions designed by Steve Cooley. When he and I started working together I totally geeked out about those designs. It has been great to bring his work into the fold @sandorfpassage.bsky.social.
May 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Read @bekahwaalkes.bsky.social on Italo Calvino covers. We both share an affinity for the Harvest Books editions designed by Steve Cooley. When he and I started working together I totally geeked out about those designs. It has been great to bring his work into the fold @sandorfpassage.bsky.social.
This is correct. As usual, James Baldwin said it best, in Nothing Personal, a 1964 collaboration with his old pal Richard Avedon.
March 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is correct. As usual, James Baldwin said it best, in Nothing Personal, a 1964 collaboration with his old pal Richard Avedon.
Catherine Lacey’s ability to demonstrate the thorny entanglement of faith—in religion, in others, in oneself—and self-doubt never ceases to interest me, and The Möbius Book is another stellar example of this, heightened in the play between fiction and memory. And so many great lines like this one.
March 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Catherine Lacey’s ability to demonstrate the thorny entanglement of faith—in religion, in others, in oneself—and self-doubt never ceases to interest me, and The Möbius Book is another stellar example of this, heightened in the play between fiction and memory. And so many great lines like this one.
Star 111 has one of the most delightfully surprising endings I’ve read in quite some time, in terms of how the story travels from the primary setting of Berlin in 1989/1990. Lutz Seiler wrote one hell of a book, which Tess Lewis has brought into English @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
February 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Star 111 has one of the most delightfully surprising endings I’ve read in quite some time, in terms of how the story travels from the primary setting of Berlin in 1989/1990. Lutz Seiler wrote one hell of a book, which Tess Lewis has brought into English @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
This is James Baldwin from Nothing Personal, an under-appreciated collaboration with Richard Avedon. Dropping it here for no particular reason.
January 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This is James Baldwin from Nothing Personal, an under-appreciated collaboration with Richard Avedon. Dropping it here for no particular reason.
Best part is how the reporter has no clue who he’s talking to.
January 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Best part is how the reporter has no clue who he’s talking to.
Shuggie Bain is relentlessly devastating.
January 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Shuggie Bain is relentlessly devastating.
Give it up for the watermelon radish, which is especially resplendent on dark wintry nights.
December 17, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Give it up for the watermelon radish, which is especially resplendent on dark wintry nights.
Can’t say enough about using black garlic on pizza—it adds a deeply caramelized onion umami.
December 16, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Can’t say enough about using black garlic on pizza—it adds a deeply caramelized onion umami.
Zone One by the one and only @colsonwhitehead.com.
December 13, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Zone One by the one and only @colsonwhitehead.com.
Troll hunting under the lights at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.
December 7, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Troll hunting under the lights at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.
The absolute best. What a night!
December 4, 2024 at 3:28 AM
The absolute best. What a night!
A great number of Charles Burchfield’s paintings, like these two: Fantasy of Heat and Gateway to September. His ability to capture the beauty of nature’s power and its indifference to human concerns never ceases to amaze me.
December 1, 2024 at 12:51 AM
A great number of Charles Burchfield’s paintings, like these two: Fantasy of Heat and Gateway to September. His ability to capture the beauty of nature’s power and its indifference to human concerns never ceases to amaze me.
Two of my favorite 2024 reads: stylistically different and taking place in different countries and eras, but incredibly complementary as historical fictions elevated to high art that also happen to be remarkable translations from Spanish, conjuring the ghosts of colonial histories.
December 1, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Two of my favorite 2024 reads: stylistically different and taking place in different countries and eras, but incredibly complementary as historical fictions elevated to high art that also happen to be remarkable translations from Spanish, conjuring the ghosts of colonial histories.
I am biased, but I am particularly fond of the cover for this forthcoming @sandorfpassage.bsky.social poetry collection, Closed Season by Monika Herceg; illustration by Danijel Žeželj.
November 18, 2024 at 10:26 PM
I am biased, but I am particularly fond of the cover for this forthcoming @sandorfpassage.bsky.social poetry collection, Closed Season by Monika Herceg; illustration by Danijel Žeželj.
World Poetry covers—all of them are worth checking out.
November 18, 2024 at 10:22 PM
World Poetry covers—all of them are worth checking out.