Stephen Sparks

It's incredible and from what I hear, the forthcoming translation of The Marsh King's Daugther is even better.

Rain or shine, UPS Steve stuck with West Marin - Point Reyes Light A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson Beach, Marshall, Nicasio, Lagunitas, Woodacre, San Geronimo, Forest Knolls,...

It's nice to honor people who do good, modest work.

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes - Honorees and Awards Ceremony The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes celebrate the best books of the last year at our awards ceremony.

I enjoyed serving as a judge on the science and technology committee for the LA Times Book Prize this year. The five finalists are all very worthy books.

A Landscape Artist in Winter In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay.

“Change is best understood by staying in the same place, and it takes a while before you really get to see and understand change."

My solution is to punch right into the top of them. It's very satisfying, on all levels. (And it works.)

A bud on a California buckeye coming into leaf

Another bud on a California buckeye

The Aesculus californica is a harbinger of spring.

Spotify Adds Bookshop.org Links, Page Sync Spotify Premium users in the U.S. and U.K. will soon be able to purchase physical books through its new affiliate partnership with Bookshop.org. The company also added a feature that syncs audiobook l...

Bookshop's brand relies on cute posts explaining how indies are morally superior to Amazon, but with news that Bookshop is partnering with Spotify, whose CEO is deeply invested in an AI military startup, it's fair to ask where the line of morality is drawn.

I've read enough for it to feel too close to home.

Two signs at the Sausalito library. One reads "Boating" and the other "Alan Watts".

At the Sausalito Public Library.

Only in July.

The Giacomini wetlands in Point Reyes Station, with the Inverness ridge swathed in fog in the distance.

The Point Reyes variety of a white Christmas.

Someone just asked if we could order them a copy of "The Protocols of the Zion Elderly".

The Fantod Pack by Edward Gorey Edward Gorey’s trademark sense of impending doom is nowhere more darkly humorous than in this, his version of a tarot card deck. Each of the 20 cards forecasts a list of outcomes for the user, ranging...

Next time you visit, you will be receiving one of these: www.pomegranate.com/products/the...

I feel like I'm living in a bizarro universe the past two weeks: it's been sunny and warm in Point Reyes and foggy and cold at home in San Rafael.

A galley copy of In Trees by Robert Moor

Now we're talking. Looking forward to it, @robertmoor.com.

I've gotta get my hands on one of those.

I've got an S&S order from the middle of last month that's gone missing and no one--not our sales rep or customer service--can explain what happened.

Maybe not the worst, but "Oh, people still buy books?" is a response I've heard more than once.

It's the season of people holding up their phones to show you a picture of a book they're looking for.

Reluctantly liking this.

It's the season of bored dads aimlessly patrolling the bookstore while their curious kids find things to read.

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

Very happy for @rabihalameddine.bsky.social tonight.

I love Eliot Weinberger beyond words. Of his time at Yale: "Everybody I met had a name like 'Hi, I’m Bob Colgate,' or 'Hi, I’m Bob Schick.' It was like opening the bathroom cabinet."

Unpopular opinion: booksellers should be a bit snobby.

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.”

"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.'"

Nice coincidence seeing you pop up here, John. Just this afternoon the poet Clark Coolidge came in and asked about your book, which I happily sold him a day before its official publication date.

James Galvin's 'The Meadow' is one for me. I have no attachment to the landscape he writes about, but feel like I know it through his prose.

I'd like to think this means that by comparison I make people appear more charming.

A flyer from Point Reyes Books that reads "All profits from sales on shutdown Sundays donated to the SF-Marin Food Bank"

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

A stack of books sitting in a windowsill: Prophetic Culture by Federico Campagna, The Gray Book by Aris Fioretos, Comparative Mythology by Jaan Puhvel, Otherworlds by Federico Campagna, and Oren Harman's Metamorphosis

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