Stef Kiper Schmidt

This is true! We do some amount of shoveling in bookstores but I don't know if I would use that word to describe the bookselling process 😭

Also "shoveling it out the door" - is this how any book people talk about selling books??

Mona's Eyes

God what an asshole

Blergh

Truly

Here I'll do it for you

If you want to barf look up the plot of Lionel Shriver's new book lol

Indeed.

Oh my god 😭😭😭😭😭

Just gets invited to trade shows to present on books 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Zibby Owens withdraws sponsorship for the National Book Awards over its “pro-Palestinian agenda.” As reported by Publishers Lunch earlier today, Zibby Owens—the CEO of Zibby Media and creator/host of the Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books podcast—has withdrawn her sponsorship of tomorrow’…

lithub.com/zibby-owens-... just a reminder that this happened 🙃

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

How was it??? What did you learn

Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory

please, if you have the means, help the displaced black families of altadena, ca hit their gofundme goals. we need each other.

I got another one ...very few people seem to know about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's many anti-trans comments so the media attention surrounding her new book will undoubtedly be positive and voluminous

It was actually a few days ago but we're all sick at my house so time is sort of standing still

Nina McLaughlin announced today that the Boston globe was cutting a page from their book section and that she had written her last column if you want something else to be depressed about

"big lots influencer chic" 😭

Today in You Can't Make This Up (review of The Barn by Wright Thompson)

Pick a movie, keep one actor, the rest are muppets

This is an earnest one I want this movie to exist

Clue, keep Tim Curry

The theme of this year's New York Times top 10 books is "look you can order 8 of the 10 titles in one handy publisher order"

Here is my deranged merch proposal for a little tote bag (10 x 7 x 3) that holds Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (9.25 x 6.5 x 2) and NOTHING ELSE

It's almost like.....publishers do stuff to make books good 🤨

Upon further review, turns out it's tomorrow, the day they announced they would be doing it lol

"I trust everything is going smoothly, right?" 😭

a woman 's face is surrounded by mathematical equations such as x + 2 ALT: a woman 's face is surrounded by mathematical equations such as x + 2

Based on my calculations it seems like they will announce the new York times top 10 today?

They love a conspiracy theory over there

Can you imagine???