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Dustin
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I no longer run a bookstore in Portland.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Catchy title
Black and white photo of Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell in one of his long haired eras singing into a mic
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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To be fair the man surely does have expertise in people being ‘mini.’
Screenshot of another IG feed post from our hero Portland city councilor Dan ryan. Superimposed over the my-parents-didn’t-pay-for-extras school photo background is the city seal and text: If Council tries to operate like 12 mini-mayors, we'll go nowhere. Councilor Dan Ryan
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Voting for any president who promises to remodel the place like Darryl Hannah’s character in the original Wall Street.
Fake exposed brick and a paint filler painting some stucco a teal Hands applying gold and silver to part of a ceiling
November 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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*speaking in a weird little voice that it seems like is somehow meant to mimic the paranoid-schizoid position* let’s fucking go
Hand holding a 1964 library edition of Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein by Hanna Segal
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Lotta griping about the Times on here but you can’t deny they’re at least VERY funny.
Screencap of an op-ed from the times editorial board. Illustration is three ovals in a vertical column meant to look like the ovals you fill in on some ballots. The center of the three ovals has purple and an “I voted” sticker image meant to look scribbled into the oval. Text on the screenshot: Opinion THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win 12 MIN READ Illustration by Rebecca Chew/The New York Times
October 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Pretty disappointed I didn’t get tickets to this.
Screenshot of an event listing on the Literary Arts website. LIND YOUR STORY RERE FIND YOUR STORY HERE MENU E TICKETED EVENTS A CONVERSATION WITH KAMALA HARRIS (SOLD OUT) Wed, November 5 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205 Kamala Harris SOLD OUT = literary-arts.org
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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maggie nelson why are you picking a fight with steven hotdog
Maggie Nelson against her copycats: In a new Paris Review interview, the influential poet, essayist, and author says braided fragments won’t save your writing: “I think people have a hope and a prayer that if they toss in a bunch of quotes, or⁠—and I certainly did not invent the numbered form⁠—add numbers to a piece, it will all magically hang together.”
October 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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This weekend at Mother Foucault’s, Portland.
Digital flyer for a reading. Photo is of a person standing above a candle in lingerie partly visible in a mirror. Text superimposed: motherfoucaultsbooks .•• Sat, Oct 11th 6:30-9:30pm Mother Foucault's Bookshop 715 SE Grand Ave. PDX Julia Laxer Moonyeka Uriah Fate Romy Blue & more Readings Performance Art Free entry! Book Signing THE HOLY HOUR: An Anthology on Sex Work, Magic and the Divine
October 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Portland Monthly social team is amazing
Screencap on an IG post by Portland Monthly. Photo is of a 30ish white man with a beard and glasses in a chef coat and apron. Superimposed on that is the text “Longtime Castagna Chef Justin Woodward Has Died” but the text is in a truly insane font choice. Like cutesy gothic. It’s incredible.
October 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I think we can all agree that opening a piece with phrasing like this—unsourced exaggerated vibe quotes, even if they’re undercut later in the piece—serves only to give the author and paper plausible deniability while unsubtly supporting that opinion.
Screenshot of a silly times piece. Text: By Kellen Browning Photographs by Jordan Gale Reporting from Portland, Ore. Oct. 4, 2025 Too extreme. Too inexperienced. An absolute disaster. Mainstream politicians are sharpening their attacks, and the wealthy are threatening to move away as a socialist revolution sweeps through the city. They're not talking about Zohran Mamdani or his plans for New York City. Rather, they are agonizing over the scene in Portland, Ore., where the democratic socialist principles espoused by Mr. Mamdani - the front-runner to become New York's next mayor - have already taken root at City Hall.
October 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Screenshot of footage of Saddam Hussein on stage during his 1979 purge of Iraqi baathists days after securing the presidency
September 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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A pretty great early-20th Iranian “me and who” courtesy of @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.
Ink drawing of two figures, one a demon in shorts or a skirt, the other a person wearing similar shorts or skirt and a red shirt and a yellow head scarf. Crucially, they both have large bellies that are juuuuuuust touching.
September 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Here’s one of the hornier cartoons I’ve ever seen.
Single panel cartoon, vertical rectangle frame. The cartoon is black and white and looks like it’s maybe from the forties. Two women stand in the foreground by a half oval track with men running on it. Closest in the track is a guy with like brillantined slicked back hair and like penciled on eyebrows running in a white tank top and black shorts. The caption, being spoken by one of the girls, is: “He’s handsome! I wish he were on MY track!”
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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The election season dip in book sales is permanent for the foreseeable future.
www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...
Screenshot of text from a shelf awareness piece. Text: AAP: Sales in First Half of 2025 Down 1.7%, to $6.3 Billion Total net book sales in the first six months of 2025 in the U.S. fell 1.7%, to $6.3 billion, compared to the first half of 2024, representing sales of 1,325 publishers and distributed clients as reported to the Association of American Publishers. In June, net book sales were down 1.3%, to $1.1 billion. Trade sales were down 2.8%, to $4.3 billion, in the first half of the year. Hardcover sales rose 0.7%, to $1.5 billion, paperbacks fell 8.1%, to $1.5 billion, mass market dropped 29.8%, to $42 million, and special bindings were down 1.5%, to $89.9 million. In other formats, in the first half of the year e-book revenues were up 2.4%, to $526.7 million, digital audio rose 5.3%, to $500.8 million, and physical audio dropped 35.5%, to $2.7 million. In major trade categories, adult fiction sales dropped 5%, to $1.6 billion, adult nonfiction fell 3.8%, to $1.2 billion, children's/YA fiction slipped 0.8%, to $871.8 million, and children's/YA nonfiction rose 9.2%, to $202.5 million.
September 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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A reminder that anglophone states don’t call their own in-group rural populations ‘villagers.’
Screenshot of a Times piece. Photo shows a man with a shaved head in a T-shirt and jeans walking carefully over stones in a shaded area. Text reads: How Kenyan Villagers Saved Their Sacred Caves An Emirati-backed mining company threatened ancestral prayer caves. The community fought back. Brian Otieno for The New York Times
September 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Photo of a watermelon grown in a container to be shaped like a cube.
September 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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A black and white photo of a bald white man with a beard, no mustache in a shirt and tie holding a guitar and smiling open mouthed. It’s Canadian troubadour Stan Rogers.
September 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Among my five favorite fens for sure
Screenshot of the wiki page for Grunty Fen. In the screenshot are a photo of the fen showing green peat stretching to the horizon and a map of Cambridgeshire with the location of the fen shown
September 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Dan Simon of Seven Stories has a novel out with Europa in February! www.edelweiss.plus?sku=97988896...
Book cover: illustration is a blue tint photo of a wall with vertical wooden siding and dappled tree limb shadows. Text on the cover: Ashland a novel Dan Simon
September 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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August 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Does anyone love a number that's also a name as much as Jonathan Karp
Screenshot of a Shelf Awareness story. Text: S&S CEO Jonathan Karp Stepping Down, Will Head New Imprint Jonathan Karp, CEO of Simon & Schuster since 2020, is stepping down and will become the publisher of a new imprint named Simon Six. He will continue as CEO until a successor is found. Karp commented: "Simon and Schuster is on a great growth trajectory right now, and it has been a privilege to lead the company for the last
August 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I’m hunky, but in the Chandlerian sense.
Photos of the first page of Raymond Chandler’s Farewell My Lovely. Some text: “He was looking up at the dusty windows with a sort of ecstatic fixity of expres-sion, like a hunky immigrant catching his first sight of the Statue of Liberty. He was a big man but not more than six feet five inches tall and not wider than a beer truck.”
August 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Haven’t we put the öats pig through enough. Let her die.
Cover of a book, Visions and Temptation by Harald Voetmann. Central image on the cover is a comically cylindrical illustration of a pig.
August 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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White hand holding a small pile of larch seeds and larch cone fragments in its palm.
August 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM