Dustin
@theunread.bsky.social
I no longer run a bookstore in Portland.
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A round-up of some interesting literature in translation for the WSJ this past weekend: Hervé Le Tellier's anomalously factual WWII narrative; Olga Tokarczuk's reissued 1998 Silesian collage novel; and Hamid Ismailov's wild, comic fusion of AI and Arabic verse (gift link) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Fiction: ‘The Name on the Wall’ by Hervé Le Tellier
Plus Olga Tokarczuk’s “House of Day, House of Night” and Hamid Ismailov’s “We Computers.”
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A round-up of some interesting literature in translation for the WSJ this past weekend: Hervé Le Tellier's anomalously factual WWII narrative; Olga Tokarczuk's reissued 1998 Silesian collage novel; and Hamid Ismailov's wild, comic fusion of AI and Arabic verse (gift link) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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You can buy a ton of sick books from @columbiaup.bsky.social at cup.columbia.edu/cyber-monday/
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
You can buy a ton of sick books from @columbiaup.bsky.social at cup.columbia.edu/cyber-monday/
Weapons: a not great movie that looks like it was a lot of fun to be cast in. Fair enough.
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Weapons: a not great movie that looks like it was a lot of fun to be cast in. Fair enough.
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(Simon Garfunkel if the New Jersey turnpike only had a single car on it) one. One. One. One. One. One. One. One.
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
(Simon Garfunkel if the New Jersey turnpike only had a single car on it) one. One. One. One. One. One. One. One.
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"Begin by emptying your bladder. Tighten the muscles and hold for a count of 10. Relax the muscles completely for a count of 10. Do 10 repetitions, 3 to 5 times a day (morning, afternoon, and night)."
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Begin by emptying your bladder. Tighten the muscles and hold for a count of 10. Relax the muscles completely for a count of 10. Do 10 repetitions, 3 to 5 times a day (morning, afternoon, and night)."
I would eat a deviled egg that was sitting in someone’s hot fist for a few hours
Would you eat deviled eggs that were sittting in a cool room for several hours lol
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I would eat a deviled egg that was sitting in someone’s hot fist for a few hours
To be fair the man surely does have expertise in people being ‘mini.’
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
To be fair the man surely does have expertise in people being ‘mini.’
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(guy who thinks cousins walk means jacking off) nah I’m all good man I did cousins walk twice last night and once in the car on the way over here
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
(guy who thinks cousins walk means jacking off) nah I’m all good man I did cousins walk twice last night and once in the car on the way over here
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Welcome to the Druncle Zone
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Welcome to the Druncle Zone
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This holiday season, may I suggest that MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER is perfect for most friends and relatives. There's a little something for your superhero grandma, your favorite cat lady, apocalypse addicts, furries, UFOlogists...
www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/moon...
www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/moon...
Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller — Third Man Books
Carol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowl...
www.thirdmanbooks.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This holiday season, may I suggest that MOON SONGS: THE SELECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER is perfect for most friends and relatives. There's a little something for your superhero grandma, your favorite cat lady, apocalypse addicts, furries, UFOlogists...
www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/moon...
www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/moon...
People in publishing should be uncomfortable with the fact (and it is a fact) that having an in-house advocate for your book—a book they’ve already bought—makes a meaningful difference.
No one pushing my books in house, no one excitedly posting the covers or the galleys, no one who remembers what worked last time. And as this business gets less stable, as presses get pinched and lurch in desperate (often conservative, politically and/or formally) directions, there are more...
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
People in publishing should be uncomfortable with the fact (and it is a fact) that having an in-house advocate for your book—a book they’ve already bought—makes a meaningful difference.
This is the RETVRN I can get behind. My political platform is to bring Randall’s Island tubes to the masses.
I have neither a car nor any reason to visit the bank so pneumatic tubes are woefully underrepresented in my everyday life
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is the RETVRN I can get behind. My political platform is to bring Randall’s Island tubes to the masses.
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if you like to vacation on the oregon coast, you should call your favorite hotel and tell them you don't want them to rent rooms to ICE
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
A federal defense contractor is seeking hundreds of coastal Oregon hotel rooms, city of Newport says
It’s just one recent sign that interest over an immigrant detention facility on the coast hasn’t faded.
www.opb.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
if you like to vacation on the oregon coast, you should call your favorite hotel and tell them you don't want them to rent rooms to ICE
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Politics can be so divisive, which is why I'm glad we can all agree he looks great.
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Politics can be so divisive, which is why I'm glad we can all agree he looks great.
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I had a very detailed dream about being tasked with designing something called an Unusable Spoon
March 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I had a very detailed dream about being tasked with designing something called an Unusable Spoon
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guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
I will either never answer your text or I’ll reply with five paragraphs of non sequitur. And I don’t get to choose which. I’m “a catch.”
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I will either never answer your text or I’ll reply with five paragraphs of non sequitur. And I don’t get to choose which. I’m “a catch.”
A cute dude who can also admit on national television when he doesn’t know a thing. What the hell.
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A cute dude who can also admit on national television when he doesn’t know a thing. What the hell.
Congrats to Literary Arts—nice to have a current board member pick up an NBA—even if that board member has had to be a vocal critic of some aspects of your org.
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Congrats to Literary Arts—nice to have a current board member pick up an NBA—even if that board member has had to be a vocal critic of some aspects of your org.
A much-deserved win. I’ve compared this book to Baldwin and I think that holds up.
Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here:
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Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West
On October 25, 2023—when Israel’s war on Gaza had already claimed the lives of 6,500 Palestinians, including 2,500 children—the Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad posted …
lithub.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 AM
A much-deserved win. I’ve compared this book to Baldwin and I think that holds up.
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Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here:
buff.ly/r2NOkNr
buff.ly/r2NOkNr
Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West
On October 25, 2023—when Israel’s war on Gaza had already claimed the lives of 6,500 Palestinians, including 2,500 children—the Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad posted …
lithub.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here:
buff.ly/r2NOkNr
buff.ly/r2NOkNr
Pretty fun
So, the *other* Mongolian folk metal band.
Uuhai - Khar Khulz
YouTube video by UuhaiVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Pretty fun
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Nothing good ever comes of "building" a "world."
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Nothing good ever comes of "building" a "world."
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If you look on the list of donators, you will see a lot of familiar comic pro names. That's because we all love and respect BOOKS WITH PICTURES and Katie Pryde.
They are so close to their goal. Pitch in what you can to get them across the line.
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
They are so close to their goal. Pitch in what you can to get them across the line.
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help.
I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If you look on the list of donators, you will see a lot of familiar comic pro names. That's because we all love and respect BOOKS WITH PICTURES and Katie Pryde.
They are so close to their goal. Pitch in what you can to get them across the line.
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
They are so close to their goal. Pitch in what you can to get them across the line.
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...