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Zachary Fletcher
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journalist, book reviewer (publishersweekly.com), bookseller, “librarian” (@thestorygraph.com), syracusian/seattleite

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doing a cool thing tonight! I’ll be talking with Maria Reva about her debut novel ENDLING, one of my favorite books of the year. seattle friends: come hang @ Third Place Books, 7pm!!
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Cover image of THE SUMMER BOOK, by Tove Jansson, Translated by Thomas Teal, Introduction by Kathryn Davis AUGUST EVERY year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade away without anyones noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it's pitch-black. A great warm, dark silence surrounds the house. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness. The can of kerosene is brought up from the cellar and left in the hall, and the flashlight is hung up on its peg beside the door. Not right away, but little by little and incidentally, things begin to shift position in order to follow the progress of the seasons. Day by day, everything moves closer to the house. Sophias father takes in the tent and the water pump. He removes the buoy and attaches the cable to a cork float. The boat is pulled ashore on a cradle, and the dory is hung upside down behind the woodyard. And so fall begins. A few days later, they dig the potatoes and roll the water barrel up against the wall of the house. Buckets and garden tools move in toward the house, ornamental pots disappear, Grandmother's parasol and 164 nor tensitory and attractine Ts tic cuinguisher and the ane stored, appear on the veranda. And ar t want kandrape is tansformed. liked th Gandmother had always logus, mast of all, perhaps, maid a place for everything and e Now was the time for the traces of h and, as far as possible, for the islan aal condition. The exhausted Alo with banks of seaweed. The lon and rinsing. All the flowers still or yellow, strong patches of co the woods were a few enorm somed and lived for one day i Grandmothe's legs ached to the rain, and she could much as she wanted to. Bu every day just before dark, picked up everything tha She gathered nails and bi pieces of lumber covere bottle top. She went where everything bur burn, and all the time and deaner, and mor shaking us off, she th Almost. A (digitally) highlighted passage that reads: “A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected.” (p.71)
August 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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the fam saw my @seattletimes.com beach reads piece and took notes for our trip 😍 from the library to boot!!!
A stack of books that includes: There Are Reasons for This, by Nini Berndt; Backhanded Compliments by Katie Chandler; Colored Television by Danzy Senna; and Love Is A War Song by Danica Nava.
August 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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this is one of my crowning achievements thank you @riverheadbooks.bsky.social

(also, read the new Patricia Lockwood this September it will make your brain hurt in the best ways!!)
July 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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picked up a copy of this new Clint Eastwood book and did a double take 🤯🤯
The cover of a new book called “Clint” by Shawn Levy. A sleeve obscures the title of the book just enough to make it look like the book is not titled “Clint” but “C*nt.”
June 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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inspired use of the space between quotes!

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...
Twenty years later, Frey sees himself as a maverick and dismisses the controversy with a string of expletives. "We've all been told to be polite, to be good little boys, to go to college and follow the rules," Frey told me from his extra-large mohair Eames chair, which he had custom-made so that he could sit in lotus pose. "Not me."
June 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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very special words about the bookstore from Moira in the @seattletimes.com! we will have loads and loads of copies next week :)

@moiraverse.bsky.social @duttonbooks.bsky.social
And the bookstore in "Storybook Ending" is based on a real Seattle bookstore - which one and why? Ravenna Third Place Books - because that's my bookstore, because I live nearby and I've been going there for a very long time. That's where I go to buy books, where I go to browse the shelves, where I go to meet my friends for lunch or for a drink downstairs in the pub, and I just love the feel of that place. I love bookstores in general - but that one, I thought I would like to immortalize it a little bit.
May 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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in print today, too!
A print edition of the article titled “Get back into the swing of baseball season with these 5 books” published in The Seattle Times on May 4, 2025.
May 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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powerful stuff from @vauhinivara.bsky.social:
April 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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follow up for the print @publisherswkly.bsky.social edition!!
The print edition of Publishers Weekly, featuring an interview with Robert Macfarlane.
March 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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my favorite part of this @literaryhub.bsky.social article on the books in White Lotus is the attention to detail on a local bookstore bookmark level🤯
We had to decide which books characters bought in Thailand, and how many books they brought from home]. Like for Piper [Sarah Catherine Hook; arguably the show's most literary character], I was buying from the local bookstores in Durham and Chapel Hill. Like the university bookshops, the university press. And putting their bookmarks in her books. That's an amazing attention to detail. And I'd never stayed at a Four Seasons hotel until we started filming at one, and if you have a book out—and you know I had six or so books on my bedside table and when I'd come back at night, each one of them would have a Four Seasons bookmark in them. So we stole that idea, too. We made White Lotus bookmarks and stuck them in books around the hotel.
March 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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so much fun to host @catbohannon.bsky.social and @katiecampbell.bsky.social at the store last week! both the adult and YA versions of EVE are compelling, important reads. put that book in the hands of someone you know and they will come away a little different in the best way. also, we had cake!!!
A custom cake displays the cover of Cat Bohannon’s EVE. Cat Bohannon and Katie Campbell discuss EVE at a public author event at Third Place Books on February 26, 2025.
March 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM