Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The end of an era. Sonny Rollins was the last living musician in Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958.” 040
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Always happy to be in London, but especially excited to attend @thebookerprizes.com International Booker Prize awards tomorrow night at Tate Modern to celebrate the translation of great writing from around the world, and root for She Who Remains! 171
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Is it one of these? beineckeroadshow.yale.edu/gallery/cold... 000
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Finally got to “Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue” at Portland Museum of Art. I could get lost in an entire museum of her images, but this Sun Ra one is otherworldly in how it conjures a galaxy in Sun Ra’s cape. This pic doesn’t do justice to the print. Space is the place! 0145
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I can’t remember when the London Book Fair stopped happening in April. But ever since it’s been held in March, I’ve really come to appreciate the trip being my first real dose of spring every year. 041
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 03/03/2026If you’re close to Concord, NH, tomorrow evening I’ll be @gibsonsbookstore.bsky.social to talk to @sevenstories.bsky.social publisher Dan Simon about his new novel, Ashland @europaeditions.bsky.social. Join us! 082
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Groundhog shadows? Crocuses? Later sunsets? Here in Maine, the true first sign of spring is when Dairy Queen reopens for the season. 040
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 03/12/2025As a Charles Burchfield freak and a @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social fanatic, I might be one of the few folks who notices that Burchfield’s work is about to appear on a second cover, albeit about 11 years after the first one appeared. 150
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Wow! Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat is a breathtakingly sad and stunning read. 1121
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 02/10/2025If only all bookstores pushed @sandorfpassage.bsky.social titles like they do here in Zagreb. 151
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Annual reminder: The best beaches are #Maine beaches in September. 0311
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Do you know the Piccolo album, recorded live at Sweet Basil? Incredible version of “Tambien Concocido Como.” This album also ranks high in my best record store finds of all time: $3.99 for four sides of soulful magic (from Amoeba in Berkeley, no less). 020
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Portland, Maine, friends: Do you like books, talking about books, and Japanese time-travel sci-fi? Then join me August 5 for the Back Cove Books Book Club, where we’ll be discussing Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi. 130
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Virtuosic legends this evening @spacegallery.bsky.social. Thrilling to hear, and be transported by, the friendship between David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar. 131
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 01/06/2025@heartsofpine.bsky.social, what a match! That was FUN! 120
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/05/2025What a treat to escape the harried welter of Canal Street yesterday to see @bourgwick.bsky.social and the rest of Sloppy Heads vibrate the art at CANADA. 080
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Read @bekahwaalkes.bsky.social on Italo Calvino covers. We both share an affinity for the Harvest Books editions designed by Steve Cooley. When he and I started working together I totally geeked out about those designs. It has been great to bring his work into the fold @sandorfpassage.bsky.social. 042
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 29/03/2025This is correct. As usual, James Baldwin said it best, in Nothing Personal, a 1964 collaboration with his old pal Richard Avedon. 12811
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Catherine Lacey’s ability to demonstrate the thorny entanglement of faith—in religion, in others, in oneself—and self-doubt never ceases to interest me, and The Möbius Book is another stellar example of this, heightened in the play between fiction and memory. And so many great lines like this one. 010
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Star 111 has one of the most delightfully surprising endings I’ve read in quite some time, in terms of how the story travels from the primary setting of Berlin in 1989/1990. Lutz Seiler wrote one hell of a book, which Tess Lewis has brought into English @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. 030
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 20/01/2025This is James Baldwin from Nothing Personal, an under-appreciated collaboration with Richard Avedon. Dropping it here for no particular reason. 010
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Best part is how the reporter has no clue who he’s talking to. 0140
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Give it up for the watermelon radish, which is especially resplendent on dark wintry nights. 020
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Can’t say enough about using black garlic on pizza—it adds a deeply caramelized onion umami. 010
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Troll hunting under the lights at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. 1190
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 01/12/2024A great number of Charles Burchfield’s paintings, like these two: Fantasy of Heat and Gateway to September. His ability to capture the beauty of nature’s power and its indifference to human concerns never ceases to amaze me. 2250
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Two of my favorite 2024 reads: stylistically different and taking place in different countries and eras, but incredibly complementary as historical fictions elevated to high art that also happen to be remarkable translations from Spanish, conjuring the ghosts of colonial histories. 080
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I am biased, but I am particularly fond of the cover for this forthcoming @sandorfpassage.bsky.social poetry collection, Closed Season by Monika Herceg; illustration by Danijel Žeželj. 061
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/11/2024World Poetry covers—all of them are worth checking out. 310
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Any of you in the Bay Area? If so, get yourself to Clio’s in Oakland this afternoon to hear Maša Kolanović discuss her brilliant Underground Barbie with translator Ena Selimović. 031
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Attention, music freaks. Last night, I saw Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records present A People's History of North American Music. It's fantastic, plus the merch table is ridiculous and all the records are only $15. Catch it if you can! www.mississippirecords.net/calendar-202... 020
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 23/10/2024Deal-savvy readers have taken advantage of this killer offer, which runs until the end of October: 7 books for $80! Repost this by 10/28 for a chance to win a free 2025 subscription. Buy one, and be entered to win an additional subscription to give away. sandorfpassage.org/product/sand... 021
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 23/10/2024The sprayed edges really do objectify books. When you see a bunch of them stacked together like this, they look like boxes that contain board games or collectible cards. 030
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 23/10/2024Last week in Frankfurt, I was floored by how commonplace this was, on everything from Sally Rooney to genre titles. I’m told that in German this is called “fabseite” (color pages). 140
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 15/10/2024If the German edition of the new Sally Rooney is indicative of anything, it’s the popularity of “fabseite” (“color pages,” according to a bookstore employee) in the German market; lots of monochromatic treatments, but just as many multicolor designs, mostly seen on trade paperbacks. 031
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 27/09/2024Hitting the Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend? Curious about Sandorf Passage? Then swing by table 221 and check out the goods. We are also launching our 2025 subscription with a killer one-day special: 7 books for $80! 165
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/09/2024I can think of others, but for me there is only one answer to this question: 2666 161
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 16/09/2024Been plenty busy with Sandorf Passage, and am VERY excited for the 2025 list. But before we jump into that, two more books on the way this year: Water, Spiderweb (October) and My Home Somewhere Else (November). Underground Barbie is out in January. Intrigued? Get in touch. 052
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 03/09/2024I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the best beaches are #maine beaches in September. 050
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 26/07/2024Props to the Flaming Lips for their pink robot confetti and site-specific balloons! 040
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 09/07/2024Important summer PSA: When life gives you mediocre seedless watermelon, make watermelon poke. 000
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Would you try the freeze-dried guacamole at the Belgrade airport? 100
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 30/06/2024The island of Mljet here in Croatia, often called the “green island,” has so many nooks and crannies for swimming—all of them completely different—I can’t imagine how long it would take to hit them all. Luckily, pretty sure I’ll be back here again. 010
Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 14/06/2024This is the largest dragonfly I’ve seen in our yard. 020