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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

The Last Reader: A Fantasia for Cynthia Ozick 1 The Last Reader in the Whole World All things come to an end. The history of reading begins in the shadows: clay tablets in Mesopotamia; finger-marks on cave walls. How this history ends is more obs...

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It’s still a high page count!

16?!! You’re in a rare echelon. 🫡

White square with text that reads: Just hoping the next viral trend is empathy, critical thinking skills, media literacy, accountability, and shutting up when you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Photo of Little Free Library featuring—wooden post with box on top that holds books.

Close up of mini garden on roof of Little Free Library

Inside of Little Free Library with various stickers.

Folks in my neighborhood raising the game with a Little Free Library featuring a rooftop garden!

I don’t know what you’re talking about! 😉

I love that they’ve helped continue Open Letter and Dalkey Archive presses, as well. 🥰

#ThursdayBookChat

Image of book, The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald

About to start The Rings of Saturn (WG Sebald)

Ok, last month’s book mail. I don’t know what day it is much less what month…

Photo of a book, The Animal on the Rock by Daniela Tarazona.

This month’s @deepvellum.bsky.social book mail! #booksky 💙📚#books #reading #translatedliterature

I had to think it about it for a bit, too. It becomes more muddled the longer you think about it. How far do you think they can go?

Ah, to actually have a local MLS team that gets one excited…

I’m going with “are” because Fire functions like a collective or plural noun. I would write LA Galaxy ARE in the playoffs… or The Heat ARE going to the championships…

The front covers of The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam held up side by side in front of a tree whose leaves are beginning to turn from green to brown.

This picture shows the spines for The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam stacked on top of each other and held up in front of a small tree on a sunny day.

It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word!

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi

That was not only quite funny but disturbingly accurate.

My favorite too, although I was hoping to be surprised since that was the one I was already familiar with.

Book cover design for THE RINGS OF SATURN by WG Sebald: Illustration of a fish at the top and 3 tall opaque glass windows or doors with heavy wood framing and 3 pointed arches. Author's name above fish in serif type with title below fish in larger similar type.

Book cover design for THE RINGS OF SATURN by WG Sebald: Yellow square in middle with illustration of 4 butterflies. White background behind square with name and title at top in sans serif type.

Book cover design for THE RINGS OF SATURN by WG Sebald: Photo or painting of silhouetted figure walking along curving dirt road next to a lake or body of water. Bright orange sky as if it's nearing dusk. Title and author at top.

Book cover design for THE RINGS OF SATURN by WG Sebald: Light green background with a series of circle each containing what looks like part of the same map. Title and author's name go around one circle just above the center and slightly to the right in serif type.

Book cover design for THE RINGS OF SATURN by WG Sebald: Light green background with 3 partial amorphous-shaped images (a black and white illustration of a partial planet with rings; a bug or an eyelash; two bearded men peering at something and dressed in what might be Victorian garb). White rectangle at top with title and author in serif type.

Book cover design for THE RINGS OF SATURN by WG Sebald: Photograph of large rectangular gridded windows overlooking a coastline. Author's name just below center in white sans serif type and title below that in two lines of dull yellow sans serif type.

Book cover design for THE RINGS OF SATURN by WG Sebald: Washed out photo of eroded wooden pylons in a diagonal line sticking out of the sand with the water receded far in the background. Author's name and title at top both in serif type.

Book cover design for THE RINGS OF SATURN by WG Sebald: Top half is a lightly red tinted photo of a door opening up to high coastline waters. Bottom half is a dark blue tinted photo of possibly a rough flowing river along a field. Author's name and book title in serif type across iddle with a strip of cursive handwriting in the background.

Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread:
THE RINGS OF SATURN by WG Sebald
#booksky 💙📚 #books #design

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No Kings Indivisible Route 1 Corridor Resistance Roll Call · No Kings Stand up and be counted among fellow resistors proclaiming NO KINGS! Join Indivisible Route 1 Corridor along the south end of Route 1 in Maryland. To stay informed and receive messages please sign up...

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This was at Hamilton & Queens Chapel roads in Hyattsville MD (a suburb a few miles outside of DC). Subsequent protests and prayer gatherings have been held at this intersection.

Mesmerizing. Horrifying. Other wordly…

Book cover for The Endling by Maria Reva.

Currently reading The Endling by Maria Reva.

Simplified image of the backs of two long-haired women facing toward the sun or moon.

Starting Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel for #ThursdayBookChat. Drawn from the author's family history, mid 1600's Weskarini (Algonquin) women are given voice.
#SapphicSeptember

Graphic for AIGA DC’s 2025 conference for civic designers and changemakers, entitled “DotGov Design – Inclusive by Design: Empowering Civil Servants and Advocates Through Design.” AIGA DC’s DotGov logo, in green, orange and purple.

The 2025 DotGov Design Conference for civic designers is on November 4th at the National Union Building in downtown D.C.

🗓Nov. 4, 2025
📍918 F St NW, 6th Floor
🔗Link in bio
🎟Tickets + more details coming soon
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#DotGov #DesignForGood #CivicDesign #AltGov #FederalWorkers

This is awesome!!! Thanks for sharing.

Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use Digital edition of Daniel Updike’s history on printing and typography

Wow Another monumental digital restoration project by @rougeux.bsky.social — a treasure trove for typography lovers! www.c82.net/printing-typ...

Wishing you many safe & joyous miles with this beauty!

That’s disgusting. I’m sorry you’re subjected to this type of $&@%.