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Used & collectible books in Pittsburgh since 1984. Hours Wed-Sun 11-5 Fuck Amazon. 📚💪🏻🧊 linktr.ee/citybookspgh

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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
City Books will be closing at 4:30 PM today because the dog has to see the vet. Puppy tax below.
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
City Books is open for business today— Independent Bookstore Day. But, if you are still wary of leaving the house bc of the Draft, we will have a make up day next Saturday, May 2, with authors, refreshments, giveaways, and a sidewalk sale!
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We are Pittsburgh’s oldest existing bookshop. Hit us up if you are on the Northside and want a break from the crowds. An 8 min walk from the Draft zone. Lots of eats & treats in the neighborhood, as well. 📚🩷🏈
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
City Books is situated at the 50-yard line of the Draft zone. If you want to support us on IBD but cannot make it down next weekend (traffic, closures, and parking, OH MY!), we will be replaying Independent Bookstore Day on May 2! Join us!
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
City Books is open on Easter Sunday. 🐰🐣🧺
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
City Books will close at 3PM today (3/28) to join the No Kings march.
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
City Books has returned to regular business hours, Wed-Sun 11-5. Thank you for your understanding.
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
We are restocked and ready for the week. 📚💪🏻🧊
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The best retelling of King Lear ever. 📚💙📚
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Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org · 05/02/2026
On 5 February 1968: BBC began filming for the "Tolkien in Oxford" documentary, later broadcast in March. In this clip, he talks about his invented languages, writing Tengwar (with mistakes!), and others enjoying the languages. #Tolkien #lotr #BookSky
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/02/2026
#BookSky, this impacts not just writers but also readers.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 05/02/2026
The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...
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The Strangers’ Case
I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Happy Black History Month to my melanated friends & readers! May you find joy & peace & rest among the madness that is the 21st century. You deserve it all! ❤️💚🖤
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Catherine O’Hara and Rob Reiner are gonna make one hell of a comedy wherever they are.
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Good morning to all of the new folks who followed me over from BookTok. I haven’t been active on Bluesky very much, but I will be ramping up my activity here over the coming weeks. 📚💪🏻🧊
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Hiding in the Burgh @hidingintheburg.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
On the Northside weekends this month starting tomorrow! Go forth and browse books and gifts, buy from this (and other) indie small business always. 💵🛍🎁
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Excited to share the City Books pop-up vendor schedule for December. Saturdays & Sundays 11-2:30! 📚💙❄️
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Suspected snowy conditions in Pittsburgh. Dormont, Potomac Ave & side streets. Black Toyota 4Runner with blacked-out windows. 3:15 pm, Tues 7/22.
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Please share widely. The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted >>> www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you have considered applying to the CBWR, or have applied in the past and not been selected, this remote, 1-hour information sesh is the opportunity to learn more about the process—from proposal best practices to how we evaluate project proposals. Registration link: lnkd.in/e_PiJ2bz
The image is of the City Books writing studio superimposed with the days & times of the two upcoming information sessions on Sunday, March 23, 10 am and Wednesday, March 26, 7 pm. Topics to be discussed include application deadlines, eligibility, proposal best practices, and the review process.
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
At a time of increasing White Supremacy noise, it's more important than ever to amplify - and read - writers of colour. Great titles here to choose from⬇️
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you have considered applying to the CBWR, or have applied in the past and not been selected, this remote, 1-hour information sesh is the opportunity to learn more about the process—from proposal best practices to how we evaluate project proposals. Registration link: lnkd.in/e_PiJ2bz
The image is of the City Books writing studio superimposed with the days & times of the two upcoming information sessions on Sunday, March 23, 10 am and Wednesday, March 26, 7 pm. Topics to be discussed include application deadlines, eligibility, proposal best practices, and the review process.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
More people need to point out more loudly that Abebooks *is* Amazon, every time I see it mentioned other people seem to be finding out for the first time.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
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Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan
The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.
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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
the 2005 tour was a prime exhibit of just how durable some of Springsteen's songs could be, no matter how he decided he was going to reconfigure them. This week's RADIO NOWHERE digs into the most recent official archive release:
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Bruce Springsteen, Pontiac Theatre, Vancouver, BC, August 13, 2005
"The last night of our summer extravaganza."
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 04/03/2025
Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
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Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🌹 FEMINISM IS REVOLUTIONARY!🌹 40% off feminist books until March 15th With titles from bell hooks, Françoise Vergès, Tithi Bhattacharya, Sophie K Rosa & more! www.plutobooks.com/feminism-is-...
Graphic with a gradient background transitioning from pink and yellow to red. Large bold white text reads "Feminism is Revolutionary!" with a shadowed version of the same text behind it in dark red. Below, smaller white text says "Celebrating Women's History Month with 40% off Feminist Books." In the bottom right corner, the Pluto Press logo and name appear in white.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 02/03/2025
The fact that many Americans cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
#RadioFreeAmerica
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Dr.DreadPirate @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My wife shared this today. She is the best. #poetry
Don't Hesitate, by Mary Oliver.

If You suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. It. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A brand new podcast called The Life of Letters launches today and Lucy from our Archive is the guest speaker on Episode 4! 🎧 All the episodes are available right now or you can listen to them all at: lauraletterslife.com/the-life-of-...
Lucy from Orkney Archive on an advert for The Life of Letters Podcast
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Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Me: Wow, February sure was rough. TS Eliot: Well, actually… Me, whispering: Please don’t… TS Eliot: …April is the cruelest month.
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Pam @pamwalker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
My mentor and dear friend @roxanegay.bsky.social recently joined me here at Harvard Medical School for an incredible event. We both read new work and then had a wide-ranging discussion about the creative life, politics and culture. I’m delighted to be able to share the video now:
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Creative Nonfiction in Conversation: Roxane Gay and Saeed Jones
YouTube video by HMS: Global Health and Social Medicine
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 05/10/2024
If seeing the news that mules are delivering supplies into Appalachia is surprising you, check out the WPA Book Women, who used mules and pack horses to deliver books to remote citizens, increasing literacy rates and providing jobs. Appalachia's always had a special relationship with these animals.
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These Kentucky Librarians Traveled Miles on Horseback to Deliver Books During the Great Depression
In the depths of the Great Depression, groups of librarians known as the "book women" loaded up their horses with books and journeyed deep into the Kentucky mountains to deliver reading material to th...
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@hidingintheburg.bsky.social Sorry I missed you today!
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City Books @citybookspgh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
☺️☺️☺️
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Good reporting out about Pittsburgh and the potential effects of indirect cost cuts. www.publicsource.org/research-fun... 1/2
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Trump NIH funding cuts, policies threaten Pitt research
A Trump administration decision to cap indirect cost rates in science and health grants, plus federal staff cuts, has Pitt researchers wondering if they can continue.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/02/2025
Calling themselves #AltGov, the network has developed a visible, public-facing presence in recent weeks through Bluesky accounts.
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#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside
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Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.
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actsofconscience.bsky.social @actsofconscience.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If your member of Congress won't hold a town hall, hold one without them
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/02/2025
i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: EEOC admin judge Karen Ortiz resisted an order to hand over all LGBT cases for “review” and told colleagues to resist too. She knows she’ll likely to be fired. “I can exist on cornflakes and community if it means that my soul is intact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
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How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk
Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.
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Jersey Craig @jerseycraig.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
They want 1939 Germany, Let’s give them 1789 France.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org
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Donate - Trans Lifeline
Support our work with a donation! Trans Lifeline is primarily funded by individual donors; donations of all sizes are deeply appreciated and put to good
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