Stephen Sparks
@ssparks.bsky.social
“To disappear, but not completely, so that you can know it.” - Elias Canetti
Point Reyes Books (pointreyesbooks.bsky.social) & Wayfinder Bookshop in Marin County, CA
Point Reyes Books (pointreyesbooks.bsky.social) & Wayfinder Bookshop in Marin County, CA
Very happy for @rabihalameddine.bsky.social tonight.
Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced
Winners of the National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony
www.nationalbook.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Very happy for @rabihalameddine.bsky.social tonight.
"I remember Oppen, who seemed to me a model of how one should live as a poet, saying of some poet he thought of as mediocre, 'He’s not scared enough of poetry.'"
Eliot Weinberger, The Art of the Essay No. 4
“Except for my less than two years at Stony Brook, I’ve never been in any scene or community, ever.”
www.theparisreview.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"I remember Oppen, who seemed to me a model of how one should live as a poet, saying of some poet he thought of as mediocre, 'He’s not scared enough of poetry.'"
I'd like to think this means that by comparison I make people appear more charming.
Just wrapped an event with @ssparks.bsky.social where we pitched books. My favorite review: “you were more charming than you often are.”
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I'd like to think this means that by comparison I make people appear more charming.
Inspired by fellow booksellers, we at @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social will be donating Sunday profits in November to the SF-Marin Food Bank. You can donate directly to the food bank here: www.sfmfoodbank.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Inspired by fellow booksellers, we at @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social will be donating Sunday profits in November to the SF-Marin Food Bank. You can donate directly to the food bank here: www.sfmfoodbank.org
Two of the best booksellers to do it visited @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social today. I've learned a lot from (and drank a lot with) Rick Simonson of Elliott Bay and even more from Paul Yamazaki of City Lights.
August 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Two of the best booksellers to do it visited @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social today. I've learned a lot from (and drank a lot with) Rick Simonson of Elliott Bay and even more from Paul Yamazaki of City Lights.
Currently reading: @peterbrannen.bsky.social 's very good new book, The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything.
August 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Currently reading: @peterbrannen.bsky.social 's very good new book, The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything.
This is a breathtaking and heartbreaking poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social
When the End Starts | Jorie Graham
all of us are shopping.Our lists are made out carefully.Don’t forget anything a voice calls out.Remember what I asked you for. Do I know her.She is oddly
www.nybooks.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is a breathtaking and heartbreaking poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social
Rob's right: this is a sharp and thoughtful book. I'm excited to talk with Ben about it when he visits Point Reyes on August 9. ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0...
July 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Rob's right: this is a sharp and thoughtful book. I'm excited to talk with Ben about it when he visits Point Reyes on August 9. ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-0...
Reading lately, w/ @dorothyproject.bsky.social, @joannapocock.bsky.social, @adambecker.bsky.social, and others.
July 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reading lately, w/ @dorothyproject.bsky.social, @joannapocock.bsky.social, @adambecker.bsky.social, and others.
"The libertarian withdrawal from democratic life is often imagined as a quest for freedom. In fact, it is a search for its opposite — control — which at the societal scale is tyranny."
Private Worlds
Today's billionaires and technofascists threaten to rob the American people of things we are supposed to hold in common.
placesjournal.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"The libertarian withdrawal from democratic life is often imagined as a quest for freedom. In fact, it is a search for its opposite — control — which at the societal scale is tyranny."
Reposted by Stephen Sparks
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Hard to fathom how someone can so blithely make a statement like this when children are left crying on sidewalks as their parents are sent to prisons.
June 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Hard to fathom how someone can so blithely make a statement like this when children are left crying on sidewalks as their parents are sent to prisons.
I was told that the selection of AI books at @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social "skewed toward the skeptical," and uh, yes that's correct.
June 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I was told that the selection of AI books at @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social "skewed toward the skeptical," and uh, yes that's correct.
Note to self: do not underestimate the practice of quietly doing the work.
May 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Note to self: do not underestimate the practice of quietly doing the work.
Every time I watch a Tesla turn without signaling, I mutter quietly to myself, "Fascist."
May 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Every time I watch a Tesla turn without signaling, I mutter quietly to myself, "Fascist."
A small good thing: fresh bouquets of local flowers on the counter at our bookshop.
May 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A small good thing: fresh bouquets of local flowers on the counter at our bookshop.
Reposted by Stephen Sparks
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
www.bloomberg.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
I assure you that Point Reyes Books is not located in San Francisco, but that Robert Macfarlane will be here (in Point Reyes Station) on June 14.
Announcing @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's June 2025 US Tour Dates (see venue websites for details).
In stores May 20, IS A RIVER ALIVE? is…
"Visionary." —Elif Shafak
"Breathtaking." —Merlin Sheldrake
"World-expanding." —John Vaillant
wwnorton.com/books/is-a-r...
In stores May 20, IS A RIVER ALIVE? is…
"Visionary." —Elif Shafak
"Breathtaking." —Merlin Sheldrake
"World-expanding." —John Vaillant
wwnorton.com/books/is-a-r...
May 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I assure you that Point Reyes Books is not located in San Francisco, but that Robert Macfarlane will be here (in Point Reyes Station) on June 14.
"To be nonpolitical is not, as one might suppose, evidence of a passive psychic condition, but of a highly active attitude, a defense against the awareness of social responsibility." - Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
April 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"To be nonpolitical is not, as one might suppose, evidence of a passive psychic condition, but of a highly active attitude, a defense against the awareness of social responsibility." - Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
"[A] commitment to the right to the 'hereness' of this particular ailing planet, to these frail bodies, to the right to live in dignity wherever on the planet we are, even when the inevitable shocks forces us to move." - @astra.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social showing a way forward.
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"[A] commitment to the right to the 'hereness' of this particular ailing planet, to these frail bodies, to the right to live in dignity wherever on the planet we are, even when the inevitable shocks forces us to move." - @astra.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social showing a way forward.
"They are waging a war on living. The more fully you live, the harder their job will be." - @anandwrites.bsky.social
The opposite of fascism
Living well and fighting back in a time of terrors
the.ink
April 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"They are waging a war on living. The more fully you live, the harder their job will be." - @anandwrites.bsky.social
An LA Times writer called our bookstore "absolutely perfect."
April 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
An LA Times writer called our bookstore "absolutely perfect."
Reposted by Stephen Sparks
an incredibly cursed headline www.eenews.net/articles/big...
March 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
an incredibly cursed headline www.eenews.net/articles/big...