Chris Carosi

People We Meet: Liam O’Brien is here to crush butterfly misogyny How a career on Broadway led to 'Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond,' a comprehensive field guide for the region.

Let's go! author of our amazing forthcoming butterfly book profiled in @missionlocal.org.

free shipping from Bookshop dot org this week. it ships from Ingram wholesale but still. it's all the books!

One of the weirder aspects of my job is telling people to just go to a bookstore rather than emailing a publisher directly to buy a book.

big time turning point of language on the Internet is when people started typing 'lol' when they didn't really laugh irl

Heyday – Since 1974 Heyday is an independent publisher and community of writers, readers, artists, editors, designers, printers, booksellers, and book lovers.

What is Heyday? Good question.

We are an independent publisher founded in 1974 and rooted in California.📍

We are dedicated to publishing books that celebrate the Golden State's natural splendor, history and culture, Indigenous voices, and social justice movements.

heydaybooks.com

in closing my frustration working for an indie press that publishes regional books is this: if you buy regionally but don't display regionally you're a liar

meanwhile, B&N is opening a store down the road from me in East Liberty next to a new Giant Eagle. It's going to be beige and have waiting-room carpets and a lot of Legos

if you walk into a bookstore and the dynamic is 'we sell books' and that's it, it's not really that great of a store. it has no spirit.

I've always thought B&Ns aren't really competition for indie bookstores because I feel the customer base is slightly different. there's definitely an overlap (people who buy books) and I do appreciate B&Ns commitment to genre fiction and manga and stuff, but there's no point of view

you have to do more face-out hardcover nonfiction displays than just a wall of celebrity memoirs. you have to break up the magazines and toys and records and christian books with something your town is interested in.

If you want to engage with your community you have to make an effort. you have to display some shit in a meaningful and obvious way, not just shelve a Graywolf poetry book next to Billy Collins spine-out and dust your hands off

if you've been in an B&N you've been to all of them simultaneously. they can't pretend to compete with indies if they don't display the books correctly.

but here's the thing: they can order all the regional or 'overlooked gems' they want. if they still just display the shit the same way they've been doing since 1995 it won't fuckin matter.

In this article, they cite the complication of the buyers at B&N who are 'overwhelmed' trying to access what's worth ordering from Big 5 plus all the indie publishers (which, an indie buyer would be like, no shit, that's the job). they just probably aren't employing enough buyers yeah?

This was like two years ago. And dang did they order a lot! I was thinking, oh they've turned a corner. but then the returns came. and kept on coming. and then by the end of the year the account was negative.

There was a 'change' not too long ago where B&N had empowered their buyers to get more regional to kinda compete with indies. this was a little exciting for Heyday because we publish books mostly about California and B&N is a top account of course.

Independent Publishers Are Fed Up with Barnes & Noble While presses of all stripes are glad that James Daunt has put the largest bricks-and-mortar bookstore chain in the U.S. back on its financial feet, many indies feel deliberately left out of the retai...

Gonna speak on this because I follow this account VERY closely and how they order our books 🧵

sometimes I think about if poets would have hated me. Jack Spicer would have hated me. also Simonides

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Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek, becomes chairman of Al military start-up after €600 million investment

Parasite becomes aggressive.

Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased.

Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.

If you really, really want to swim around in the luxury of the English language, and you do, Aaron's two talks published in FLOWERS & SKY are so awesome.

One of which is just about the flowers mentioned in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Get it via @asterismbooks.bsky.social.

“Poetics,” a Poem by Aaron Shurin “Poetics” Was it the blue cloud of his mind? Was it the sun of her brain? Here is the wind of their eyes. There is the rain of my hope. Is it a language of sighs, a brawl of interjections, of gramm…

Cool to see Aaron Shurin in Lit Hub today. Excerpt from his new book of selected poems from Nightboat.

The prose poetry goat. Few contemporary poets have committed to that form like Aaron has.
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Helicopter to spray “thick brown liquid” over Central Pennsylvania communities YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A helicopter will spray a thick, brown liquid across parts of Central Pennsylvania today. According to the York County PA Office of Emergency Management’s Facebook, …

this is why we look for the helicopters

Cambridge study suggests 'poetic obsession' with lawnmowers Academic research suggests British poets have written about mowing the lawn for nearly 375 years.

I rode an exmark every summer for this shit. Andrew Marvell and me.

Ingram Appoints AI Chief Ingram Content Group has named Rajen Bhatt, former director of engineering for AI technologies at HP, to the new position of director of AI. He is tasked with improving efficiency, optimizing workflow...

I could be wrong but it appears as though the picture that was sent to PW for the announcement of Ingram's new 'AI Chief' was taken in first class on an airplane.

I hate the pope

that song was played maybe 60 times over the two days

Hope you can join us in Homestead to learn more about the toxic contamination of East Palestine. tinyurl.com/kbswszff

meaning on that app you purely pay dollars to be scum and perform it in front of the curtain

so because Twitter is now upside down and I don't have a checkmark.. no one sees anything I post or reply. and so I have been just saying WHATEVER to various right wing bullshit and they never see it