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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Detroit's Jazz Festival is this weekend, so we pulled together a little Reading Jazz bibliography: Mingus, Monk, Miles, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Detroit jazz, and some Backroom oddities. A few books for the jazz curious—and the jazz obsessive: www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Gorey illustration of the month. From the adventures of Gremlin by DuPre Jones, Lippincott, 1966 “Has something happened? Like it does not swing any more, like Lostville, like Deserted Village. Like you was the afterbirth of man in a pot.” #edwardgorey 💙📚 #booksky

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Join Anne Carson & Monster Island for an afternoon of classical-psych-spoken-word + music on Friday, Feb. 27 at 4 PM, FREE to the public at Detroit Public Library. Books will be availble from Book Beat. #anncarson #monsterisland #freefolk #detroitpubliclibrary 💙📚

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We were honored to have Patti Smith visit and sign Bread of Angels before her Detroit fundraiser at Ideation Orange. Photo by Lisa Marie Smith. 💙🦋 📚🪽 #pattismith Signed copies available in store or online at www.thebookbeat.com/bookshop/cat...

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Scorpions looks especially interesting— hopefully a future TB review. #surrealism 📚💙🦋 we love #wakefieldpress

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year Blue Sky Booklovers! 💙📚 💙📚💙 “Gratitude for gifts, Even Snow on my bedspread A gift from the Pure Land.” –Kobayashi Issa, from Spring of My Life #booksky A New Year’s newsletter, happy browsing!

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Our October newsletter is packed with literary delights. Happy Readings! www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

“What fresh hell is this?” —Dorothy Parker

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Wonderful seeing graphic novelist and educator Nick Sousanis back in his town —his book Unflattening is an absolute mind-bending gem!

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Thanks Nick! We ❤️ Unflattening—genius book!

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Candy Darling, Hanuman books, VF, first printing 1992 . “You must always be yourself, no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.” ― Candy Darling Available in store , at Book Beat gallery online, or DM for more info. $150/📚💙#candydarling #hanumanbooks

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A compilation on the foundation, dreamers and revolutionaries of the Surrealist movement in its 100 year anniversary. www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202... 💙📚 #booksky #surrealism

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Alice Coltrane fan club alert! The facsimile reproduction of Monument Eternal and the lavish oversized devotional Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal have landed. Essential accoutrements for your shrine. Om, Shanti, Shanti Om. #alicecoltrane #booksky #spiritualjazz #freejazz @akashicbooks.bsky.social

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Some favorite reading that survived the wreckage of 2024📚💙 #booksky “The ideal or the dream would be to arrive at a language that heals as much as it separates.” ― Susan Sontag #bookstores are magic

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. ❄️🌬️☃️ “In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ❄️ Illustration from Wintercake by Lynne Rae Perkins

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Happy Holidays! ❄️❄️❄️ "Books may well be the only true magic." ~Alice Hoffman Illustration: a Christmas card by Edward Gorey 💙📚 “A Future Unremembered Poet of the Seventeenth Century Accepts a Christmas Cookie From the Great Veiled Bear” #booksky #edwardgorey #indiebookstore

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Art Is For Living @artisforliving.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Toni Morrison's words from 2015, as timely as ever: “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” #art #writing #courage #booksky

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.” —Hannah Arendt, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism 💙📚#books 🌶️ #booksky #hannaharendt

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

“Bowie, who refused to fly and was often subjected to long train rides to get around the various countries he toured, would carry with him a series of trunks that contained up to 1,500 books that he regularly read.” tinyurl.com/4c5tvt4d

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Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life | Bookreporter.com

Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyeb...

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Vanity Fair: “What is your idea of perfect Happiness?” . David Bowie: “Reading”. . Bowie was known to always travel with a trunk filled with books. A collection of his top 100 books is at the NYPL. Are any of these a favorite? #booksky, #bookchallenge #davidbowie #books www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01...

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In Memoriam: David Bowie's Top 100 Favorite Books | The New York Public Library

Though one of his songs is titled "I Can't Read", David Bowie was actually quite the voracious reader.

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Thank you for all you do in support of reading and indie books. 💙📚

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

❄️ “The genius of Ezra Jack Keats was in capturing all of the force, fury and power of a revolution within the quiet beauty of his art.” —Floyd Cooper

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Just a Snowy Day (1962) by Ezra Jack Keats was a Caldecott Award winning picture book in 1963. ❄️ The beloved, innovative, award-winning children’s story—was the most checked out book in The New York Public Library’s 125-year history. ☃️ #booksky #bookchallenge #ezrajackkeats 💙📚

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

“Don't show me frogs and snakes And listen for my scream, If I'm afraid at all It's only in my dreams.” —Maya Angelou 💙📚 #booksky #mayaangelou

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Illustration by Maurice Sendak from A Hole Is to Dig by Ruth Krauss, 1952 #mauricesendak #ruthkrauss #booksky 💙📚

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

“The ideal or the dream would be to arrive at a language that heals as much as it separates.” ― Susan Sontag

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Against Interpretation was a book read in high school that helped change my life. I‘m not always in agreement with Sontag but she sparked a love of books and underground culture that continues.

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

“The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.” ― Edward Gorey #booksky #books #bookchallenge #edwardgorey 💙📚

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

“His contempt for humanity deepened. He reached the conclusion that the world, for the most part, was composed of scoundrels and imbeciles.” —― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature (1884) 💙📚 #books #booksky #bookchallange

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“This secluded spot was the haunt of thousands of honey bees that zimmed all through the warm days at their business. I could sit amongst the bees for hours on end and feel happy, although why they pleased me so I cannot tell.” ― Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

“What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? — Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A favorite: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston 💙📚 #booksky #bookchallange #zoranealhurston #qualitylit

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“The character of ‘reader’ is a curious character, a strange one. While completely individual with particular reactions, the reader is also terribly linked to the writer, since, in fact, the reader is the writer.” —Clarice Lispector

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Book Beat @bookbeat.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A Favorite book: Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector #booksky #bookchallenge

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops. They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities. Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish . Thank you.

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