James
banner
exhaustdata.bsky.social
James
@exhaustdata.bsky.social
Bookstore proprietor and I also do marketing for Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive / Open Letter
D'Aulaires greek myths on our pride display—if you know you know
June 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
That really is the entire text lol
June 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I know that extremely wordy bumper stickers are way overdone, but I just can’t shake this idea
June 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Read an early version of Andy Anderegg’s PLUM back in 2023, and am so psyched to finally have my hands on a real copy.

Let this book break your heart immediately @hubcitypress.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Last night we let the Éditions Gallimard talk
June 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
End of an era end of the world level stuff
June 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Fittingly this is the question I would ask myself about writing an article for the New York Times
June 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Changed a tire on the side of the road by myself but you’d never be able to tell because I was already covered in grease and soot from being on my phone
May 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Obviously I picked this up because it was edited by Lucy Ives, but goddamn Gins herself is really blowing my mind
May 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Madeline Gins, instructions for a “group novel”
May 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Totes are in
May 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Olivia Rodrigo is reading Lispector, Lorde is an Ernaux fan, so Sabrina Carpenter does the name Carole Maso mean anything to you? If not we can change that
May 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My beloved Mrs Dalloway was published a century ago today—May 14, 1925.
May 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Went to a baseball game last night and was like “I get it I’ve read Underworld”
May 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Here’s the situation behind the counter
May 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It is a gorgeous perfect Sunday, ideal for sitting inside
May 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I think you sickos are going to go absolutely hog wild for this one. Especially the Fosse-heads. I mean just look at the way it’s written
May 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Last year I got really stuck on the idea of a collector’s item that you had to destroy. The result was a custom wooden case, sealed shut with glue and nails, which the reader had to break in order to get the book.

Anyway, here’s world renowned Marina Abramovic doing my little conceptual thing!!
May 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Open Letter has lost its NEA funding unless anyone can tell me what the fuck “ foster AI competency” means?
May 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Completely beside myself about the sprayed edge booktok Ferrante
May 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hey boss. Gonna be a little late today. Yeah, I got the Weirdcore Liminal Space elevator again
April 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
American culture is going great right now
April 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The remaining 1/3 of our books won’t be delivered until Monday, and we’re feeling very calm&chill about it, but it bears at least a passing resemblance to a bookstore
April 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The final time he addresses the public, on the most important day in Christianity, and he used it pray for Gaza. I’m not even catholic but it’s hard not admire
April 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
They’re going to appoint someone else for show, but make no mistake: Pope Francis chose his true successor, Patricia Lockwood
April 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM