Sarah Rettger

A+ spite-project

Sound of my childhood…

Edgar Wilson cleans roadkill in rural Brazil until vultures lead him into a quest that becomes an exhortation about dignity for the forgotten and discarded. Ana Paula Maia's novel about two working men and a day that changes everything is out now. https://charcopress.com/bookstore/bury-your-dead

I read it this morning and was still thinking about it on the drive home!

Yeah. And it knows EXACTLY what you did.

The message booksellers are getting for Q4 is December is going to be (another) shitshow. Paper and ink shortages, printer back-ups, warehouse back-ups/staffing shortages, carrier delays. Order up now, we’re being told. Who knows what stock will be available later.

This is why I claim Minnesota

"And we had to type in frontlist orders. By hand! None of this importing nonsense."

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

Highly recommend trying to explain broker fees to a two-year-old before 8 am.

Seismic thread on the publishing industry, & as someone who’s been in it for 35 yrs (bookseller, designer, production, publisher ) everything here is 💯

Well, today blows.

C’est magnifique 🪡

I did not know this and now I'm going to make my kid's day.

You'll not convince me this isn't the historically accurate Odysseus.

My origin story, except I asked enough questions to hit 90%.

my problem is that I am just politics-brained enough that I constantly have to stop and remind myself it's likely that Deb Haaland has neither taken up soccer nor moved to Norway

The Globe is going back in time to 1776. The Continental Congress voted to adopt a Declaration of Independence from King George III. Read the day's news from Massachusetts and beyond. globe.com/1776

Oh my gosh 😭

Happy pride month. In 2024, NASA created a pride flag made of various space imagery. For weeks, it was the most-liked image on Bluesky. Under the Trump administration, NASA was forced to delete it. www.southernfriedscience.com/the-story-of...

It always makes me happy when the Belmont Street banjo player is out on his porch strumming.

Also Waltham!

Read this one.

What a legacy! How lucky we are he’s lived long and productively. Happy 100 years! 🎈

What does it say about me that I already knew all of these M-W

Hmmm.

The toddler has just discovered Elephant & Piggie thanks to a pair of Girl Scouts. Now they’re adding the Pigeon to the mix. The poor kid’s TBR list will never recover.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Lovely memorial for Charles Coe at BPL today. As a special announcement, the Founder and Executive Director of Manship Artist Residency (Gloucester) announced an annual Charles D. Coe residency for poets. ❤️

Gobble gobble, robo taxi

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

On this day in 1973, the Gov’t Printing Office agreed that “Ms.” was an acceptable optional identifying label in gov’t publications. Feminists had fought for recognition of the Ms. honorific, which enabled women to present themselves in public without foregrounding their marital status. #WeTheMen

Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895) was the first Black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She briefly resided on Joy Street at the North Slope of Beacon Hill. She to Virginia in 1865 where she used her degree to help formerly enslaved people who lacked access to medical care. #blackhistorymonth #boston

John Williams made an appearance on stage at the Boston Symphony Orchestra last night. This man deserves every bit of the love and adoration he gets.

Now I finally know how to describe it!

Flagging for @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social!

"You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch" is a torch song.

Memorial tribute planned next year for poet Charles Coe.

If you haven't visited us at 1815 Mass Ave yet, or if it's been awhile since you have, here is a tour of the space! It took a bit to figure it out, but we love the combination of bright open spaces, cozy hidden corners, & comfy places to sit that we've created in this much larger space.

I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.