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Buzz Poole

@buzzpoole.bsky.social
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Sandorf Passage co-founder and publisher sandorfpassage.org Author of Workingman’s Dead, part of the 33 1/3 series Writer, editor, aspiring full-time putterer

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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The end of an era. Sonny Rollins was the last living musician in Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958.”
“Harlem 1958” by Art Kane
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Always 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!
Photo of exterior of Tate Modern and the slogan “See great art from around the world”
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Is it one of these? beineckeroadshow.yale.edu/gallery/cold...
A set of images from “In Cold Blood: Truman Capote in Holcomb, Kansas
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Finally 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!
Picture of Ming Smith’s photograph of Sun Ra, as seen at Portland Museum of Art in Maine
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I 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.
Trees in bloom near Holland Park, LondonTrees in bloom near Holland Park, London
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If 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!
Gibson’s Bookstore flyer for Dan Simon Ashland event on March 4
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Groundhog shadows? Crocuses? Later sunsets? Here in Maine, the true first sign of spring is when Dairy Queen reopens for the season.
Dairy Queen sign in South Portland, Maine, announcing reopening for the season
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
As 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.
Totempole cover featuring Charles Burchfield painting Light While There is Light featuring Charles Burchfield cover
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Wow! Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat is a breathtakingly sad and stunning read.
Image of The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If only all bookstores pushed @sandorfpassage.bsky.social titles like they do here in Zagreb.
Sandorf Passage books on display in a bookstore in Zagreb, CroatiaSandorf Passage books on display in a bookstore in Zagreb, Croatia
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Annual reminder: The best beaches are #Maine beaches in September.
Photo of a beach in Maine in September
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Do 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).
Ron Carter Quartet Piccolo album cover
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Portland, 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.
Flyer for August 5 Back Cove Books Book Club
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Virtuosic legends this evening @spacegallery.bsky.social. Thrilling to hear, and be transported by, the friendship between David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar.
David Murray and Kahil El’Zabar at SPACE in Portland, Maine
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
@heartsofpine.bsky.social, what a match! That was FUN!
Fan at Portland Hearts of Pine gameBanner from Portland Hearts of Pine stadium
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
What 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.
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
We are doomed.
Ad for AI employees in Manhattan
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Read @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.
Cover image for Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost. Cover image for The Competition of Unfinished Stories
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is correct. As usual, James Baldwin said it best, in Nothing Personal, a 1964 collaboration with his old pal Richard Avedon.
An excerpt from Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Catherine 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.
Image of page from The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Star 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.
The cover of Star 111 by Lutz Seiler
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is James Baldwin from Nothing Personal, an under-appreciated collaboration with Richard Avedon. Dropping it here for no particular reason.
An excerpt from the book Nothing Personal, a collaboration between James Baldwin and Richard Avedon
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Best part is how the reporter has no clue who he’s talking to.
Still from the Simpsons of Steve Guttenberg
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Shuggie Bain is relentlessly devastating.
Image of cover for Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Give it up for the watermelon radish, which is especially resplendent on dark wintry nights.
A sliced watermelon radish
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Can’t say enough about using black garlic on pizza—it adds a deeply caramelized onion umami.
Homemade mushroom, onion, black garlic pizza
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Zone One by the one and only @colsonwhitehead.com.
Cover of the novel Zone One by Colson Whitehead
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Troll hunting under the lights at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.
A Thomas Dambo troll at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The absolute best. What a night!
State Theater marquee for Gillian Welch and David Rawlins Gillian Welch and David Rawlings at State Theater in Portland, Maine
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A 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.
Fantasy of Heat by Charles BurchfieldGateway to September by Charles Burchfield
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Two 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.
The covers of You Dreamed of Empires and Season of the Swamp
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I 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.
Cover for Closed Season
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
World Poetry covers—all of them are worth checking out.
Cover for Houston We Have a ProblemCover for The EscapadesCover for In the Glittering MawCover for Palestinian
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Any 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.
Flyer for Underground Barbie event at Clio’s in Oakland
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Attention, 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...
A flyer for A People’s History of North American Music
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Deal-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...
Flyer for 2025 Sandorf Passage subscription
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
The 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.
Stacks of books with sprayed edges
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Last 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).
Sprayed edges on booksSprayed edges on booksSprayed edges on books
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
If 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.
Image of German books with colored pagesImage of German books with colored pagesImage of German books with colored pagesImage of German books with colored pages
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Flyer for Sandorf Passage 2025 subscription
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Hitting 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!
Sandorf Passage Brooklyn Book Festival 2025 subscription flyer
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
I can think of others, but for me there is only one answer to this question: 2666
The cover of the novel 2666
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Been 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.
Image of three forthcoming Sandorf Passage titles: Water, Spiderweb; My Home Somewhere Else; Underground Barbie
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the best beaches are #maine beaches in September.
Image of a beach in Maine
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Not complaining that I have the beach to myself.
A beach in Maine
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Props to the Flaming Lips for their pink robot confetti and site-specific balloons!
Flaming Lips pink robot confettiImage from Flaming Lips concert with balloons that say “Fuck Yeah Portland”
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
Important summer PSA: When life gives you mediocre seedless watermelon, make watermelon poke.
Image of watermelon poke
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
Would you try the freeze-dried guacamole at the Belgrade airport?
Image of a bag of freeze-dried guacamole
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
The 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.
Island of Mljet in CroatiaIsland of Mljet in CroatiaIsland of Mljet in CroatiaIsland of Mljet in Croatia
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Buzz Poole @buzzpoole.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
This is the largest dragonfly I’ve seen in our yard.
Image of a dragonfly
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