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
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.
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.
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.
Except for Landolfi.
May 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Except for Landolfi.
"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
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."
Walter Kempowski's All for Nothing (trans. Anthea Bell) is a devastating masterpiece. Just astonishing.
March 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Walter Kempowski's All for Nothing (trans. Anthea Bell) is a devastating masterpiece. Just astonishing.
Well-timed new editions of John Berger's 'Bento's Sketchbook' and 'Hold Everything Dear' from @versobooks.bsky.social.
March 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Well-timed new editions of John Berger's 'Bento's Sketchbook' and 'Hold Everything Dear' from @versobooks.bsky.social.
I'm excited to host Allison Carruth and @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social this Saturday in Point Reyes for a conversation about 'Novel Ecologies,' a timely interrogation of the ways Silicon Valley imagines the natural world.
March 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I'm excited to host Allison Carruth and @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social this Saturday in Point Reyes for a conversation about 'Novel Ecologies,' a timely interrogation of the ways Silicon Valley imagines the natural world.
A good pairing of riparian books for our season of atmospheric rivers here in California: @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's 'Is a River Alive' and James C. Scott's posthumously published 'In Praise of Floods'.
February 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A good pairing of riparian books for our season of atmospheric rivers here in California: @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's 'Is a River Alive' and James C. Scott's posthumously published 'In Praise of Floods'.
"The ocean is coldblue and never still, a gigantic creature that breathes, most often tolerates us, but sometimes not and then we drown; the history of humankind is not terribly complicated."
February 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"The ocean is coldblue and never still, a gigantic creature that breathes, most often tolerates us, but sometimes not and then we drown; the history of humankind is not terribly complicated."
Reck, an arch-conservative Royalist, on the clarifying, essential power of hate, which he directed at the Nazis in his journal:
January 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reck, an arch-conservative Royalist, on the clarifying, essential power of hate, which he directed at the Nazis in his journal:
"A thin sauce of ideology covered lewdness, greed, sadism, and fathomless lust for power..." - Friedrich Reck writing about the rise of Hitler in 'Diary of a Man in Despair,' a book that's a grim portrait of its time and a chilling glimpse of ours.
January 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"A thin sauce of ideology covered lewdness, greed, sadism, and fathomless lust for power..." - Friedrich Reck writing about the rise of Hitler in 'Diary of a Man in Despair,' a book that's a grim portrait of its time and a chilling glimpse of ours.
A welcome surprise to open @nicktriolo.bsky.social's forthcoming, 'The Way Around,' and find the Tamalpais inside.
January 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A welcome surprise to open @nicktriolo.bsky.social's forthcoming, 'The Way Around,' and find the Tamalpais inside.
Currently reading: Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity; The Spirit of Hope; & The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth
December 29, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Currently reading: Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity; The Spirit of Hope; & The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth
I hang my head in shame when I realize this book was scheduled to be published in 2019... And yet, I'm putting it here as a goad to finally, finally finish in the new year.
December 22, 2024 at 11:00 PM
I hang my head in shame when I realize this book was scheduled to be published in 2019... And yet, I'm putting it here as a goad to finally, finally finish in the new year.
Winter sunset at the Nicasio Reservoir.
December 18, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Winter sunset at the Nicasio Reservoir.
Eliot Weinberger on the incoming administration.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 16, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Eliot Weinberger on the incoming administration.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Four recent additions to the environment table at @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social.
December 10, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Four recent additions to the environment table at @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social.