The Golden Notebook Bookstore

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Are influencers harming the book industry?

ICYMI: The overvaluation of influencers in commercial publishing has real impacts, says Jannat Ahmed in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

Always a preferred strategy! :)

📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:

1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)

2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦

Happy First Saturday in December to all who celebrate! Be nice to your retail workers. Wish them comfortable shoes!

Rebecca F Kuang pulls out of Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature as BDS calls for UAE boycott

ICYMI: Rebecca F Kuang has announced she will be withdrawing her participation from the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature citing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions’ call for a boycott of the United Arab Emirates following the "current events in Sudan" 👇 #BookSky

Out: Woke

In: Awake

James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing “Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”

"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."

Remembering Baldwin, who left us on this day in 1987, with his abiding wisdom on creative work:

On this World AIDS Day, we leave you all with a message from @drdemetre.bsky.social former Director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
#WorldAIDSDay #2025 #AIDS #HIV #PublicHealth #Prevention #Treatment #Remember

GOAT!!

I would love for someone to write the YA novel (or series of novels) where a well-dressed teenager with a love for classic detective fiction actually *is* called in by the French authorities to help solve improbable crimes.

Trump ignoring medical emergency

Tylenol took another one

Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.

I don't want Congress getting paid during shutdowns, no lifetime retirement and healthcare benefits, no more international travel, only 2 trips to DC per year. We decide pay raises, allowances and expense funds. No stock market no redecorating offices. We decide the rules they must follow

"Nobody actually knows the future," said @margaretatwood.bsky.social as she accepted the Eleanor Roosevelt Lifetime Achievement Award at the Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards, co-presented by PEN America, but noted: "When you're halfway down the slippery slope, it's not far to the bottom."

In just over a week, I will be in upstate New York talking to @willhermes.bsky.social at @goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social. He is the author of the excellent Lou Reed biography King of New York. Please stop by!

goldennotebook.com/e...

Paperback out Nov 4 from @PublicAffairsBooks.

Bestselling author Jodi Picoult pushes back after her musical is canceled by Indiana high school Jodi Picoult faces bans on both her books and a musical based on her novel “Between the Lines.” The superintendent of Mississinewa High School in Indiana canceled the musical last week, citing concern...

Author @jodipicoult.bsky.social is being banned in two mediums this fall — her books and now a high school musical.

“It’s devastating... kids who put in hundreds of hours of hard work had that torn away from them because of the objections of a single parent,” she says.
apnews.com/article/jodi...

i will never physically adjust to a 979 ISBN

Well, everyone knows the US Constitution mandates three branches of government. What this administration presupposes is... maybe there is only one.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Small DC bookstore reports 60% decline in business since federal surge A bookstore in the Petworth neighborhood reports sales are down a whopping 60% since the federal surge in D.C. began. The small but beautifully arranged Loyalty Bookstore on busy Upshur Street near Ge...

A friend of mine co-owns this bookstore. This is not great.

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

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Phoebe and Her Unicorn book 1, extra sparkly new cover

Hi, I’m Dana, I was the first out trans person in syndicated comics, and I draw unicorns and kids really seem to like them. Grownups too sometimes.

bookshop.org/p/books/phoe...

Photo: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton photographed by Bert Stern, 1962

Richard Burton’s diary, October 3rd, 1971:

“It's a beautiful morning and I'm in love with my wife....I have a whole day with E and books and ships and cabbages and kings...I shall have a cup of tea or coffee and smoke a cig and read and waste myself indolently down the day.”

Yale’s Little Histories £750 window display competition won by Pritchards Bookshop

Yale University Press London's Little Histories window display competition has been won by Pritchards Bookshop in Crosby, Merseyside 👇 #BookSky

In a country where bankruptcy due to medical care costs exists, America has decided to end all preventative disease infrastructure

NEW: Huge anti-Trump protests happening across the US for Labor Day.

This is the current scene in San Diego. A seemingly endless line of thousands of people on the streets!

@50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionaires #NoKings

(🎥 10-97 News)

But now, no more words, only kisses, and many of them, for a thousand reasons, since it is Sunday.

Franz Kafka, 1912.