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CITY BOOKS will remain closed until March 13. Apologies for the inconvenience.

City Books will open today between 12:30-1:00 pm due to family emergency. Further delays and closures are possible. Please check before coming down.

AMAZING NIGHT! 💙💙

We are restocked and ready for the week. 📚💪🏻🧊

The best retelling of King Lear ever. 📚💙📚

On 5 February 1968: BBC began filming for the "Tolkien in Oxford" documentary, later broadcast in March. In this clip, he talks about his invented languages, writing Tengwar (with mistakes!), and others enjoying the languages. #Tolkien #lotr #BookSky

#BookSky, this impacts not just writers but also readers.

The Strangers’ Case I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

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Happy Black History Month to my melanated friends & readers! May you find joy & peace & rest among the madness that is the 21st century. You deserve it all! ❤️💚🖤

Catherine O’Hara and Rob Reiner are gonna make one hell of a comedy wherever they are.

Hello there!! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

Update: Last night I dreamt I was young and dating JFK Jr. This girl dreams big.

Good morning to all of the new folks who followed me over from BookTok. I haven’t been active on Bluesky very much, but I will be ramping up my activity here over the coming weeks. 📚💪🏻🧊

On the Northside weekends this month starting tomorrow! Go forth and browse books and gifts, buy from this (and other) indie small business always. 💵🛍🎁

Have you ever read/listened to Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan?

Excited to share the City Books pop-up vendor schedule for December. Saturdays & Sundays 11-2:30! 📚💙❄️

I read it nearly 30 yrs ago while getting my MFA in Poetry, but I think “The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art” by Carter Ratcliff might interest you.

Ohhhhhh so exciting! Thank you so much!

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I did let them know. 🙏🏻

Suspected snowy conditions in Pittsburgh. Dormont, Potomac Ave & side streets. Black Toyota 4Runner with blacked-out windows. 3:15 pm, Tues 7/22.

Check out books by Roddy Doyle, Brendan O’Carroll, and Cecelia Ahern. And, if you like DARK comedies, The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe is always a good (yet horribly disturbing) choice.

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

Please share widely. The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted >>> www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So great seeing you!! 💙📚💙

Thanks for coming by this afternoon! 📚💙📚

Thank you so much, Stacey!! 💙💙💙