Excited to share the City Books pop-up vendor schedule for December. Saturdays & Sundays 11-2:30! 📚💙❄️

If you have considered applying to the CBWR, or have applied in the past and not been selected, this remote, 1-hour information sesh is the opportunity to learn more about the process—from proposal best practices to how we evaluate project proposals. Registration link: lnkd.in/e_PiJ2bz

Absolutely knocked out by Taylor Brown’s historical novel REDNECKS about the West Virginia Mine Wars. You’re going want to read this. bookshop.org/a/4434/97812...

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

Good morning. For the benefit of my international bookstore mutuals, -4°F equals -20°C. It’s really cold.

City Books is pleased to announce our Spring 2025 Writers-in-Residence Sheena Carroll and Paulette Still. Full details >> citybookspgh.com/spring25

Omg! That reminds me! I took this for you when I was in Scotland in October. At the end of the Royal Mile across from the Scottish parliament building.

Drop something blue from your library/gallery.

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

The City Books music vibe.

PITTSBURGH! Our City Books Writer-in-Residence application deadline is Nov 30. Details >> citybookspgh.com/residency

Tickets still available for Tuesday’s event with @carynrose.bsky.social >> citybookspgh.com/pattismith

Y’ALL. I *just* finished The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon & I can barely breathe. Haven’t read a book so fast since my Scholastic book days. Full of CWs, so do your hmwk; even (teflon) I had to make a conscious effort to continue reading a cpl times. A SPECTACULAR thriller. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Just finished The Exhibitionist and just about to start The Quiet Tenant. What’s everyone else reading this week?