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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Have I mentioned how hard you’re going to groove to Hot Wax from @mlrio.bsky.social?

Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Can you find Crush from the incomparable @adacalhoun.bsky.social on the shelves @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social? Of course! In her debut novel, Calhoun delves into the perils and pleasures of a midlife affair in this whip-smart, funny and fabulously honest look at a rebellious romance.

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It’s interesting — I feel like I *must* be missing something, but, alas, I just don’t have any desire to watch them. I liked the original Superman when I was a kid, though!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I wrote a highly biased guide to (most of) my friends' books being published in 2025. This feels like the perfect use of my newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/mariskre...

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The Maris Review, vol 36

Happy new year. Who can say what 2025 has in store for us, but I know for sure there will be good books. Allow me to shout about my friends for a bit?

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Ok, at Lovestruck Books this year, we definitely had the hunky Australian firefighter calendar — next year we add the Sexiest Collard Farmer calendar, naturally.

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

When you keep finding old friends in your brand new store and it makes you smile! Like @minjinlee.bsky.social, who has a fabulous spot on our shelves! Yay, Pachinko!

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Absolutely! This photo was pilfered from online, so not my own. Usually, I’d have an unopened roll of the corresponding coin in that slot, but candy! Candy!

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Sawyer Hackett @sawyerhackett.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Thanks to Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Republicans cut $190 million for pediatric cancer research from the funding bill. Congrats to DOGE on their first victory.

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Though this be full of the mirth of heaven, so much so that I must say, good on ye! Also, though, I must protest! Thine drawer shall not spin wrongly, even under our Lord and Savior, Coriolis!

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Why are ye fearful, o ye of little faith? I shall arise and rebuke the wrongful quarters, the wayward twenties, and then there shall be a great calm!

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

My retail brethren! I come to you today with a question, maybe THE question of our times! When setting up your cash drawer, do you arrange it as pictured, with your one dollar bills and your pennies on the left, or — are you a monster? @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social

A typical cash drawer is pictured with the bills in their appointed slots, with one dollar bills on the left, and pennies also on the left, with larger denominations flowing to the right as our Good Lord intended.

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Wait! Who else?! I wish I had known! Wow, did BB show up — thank you all!

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It was Great to see you! Chris came in right after you left — Belmont Books represented!

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This was for yesterday, the 2nd! Go read this book. There’s gin on, um, pg 147? Or 149. Gin is good. This book is better. Martyr, by Kaveh Akbar. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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EllenMulholland is hopeful ✨ @ellenmulholland.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

screaming this into the void f o r e v e r #StopBookBans

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Last year, starting on December 1st, I posted a book a day for a month. I vowed not to do that again. I’m a bookseller, not an influencer, as Dr. McCoy could have told Kirk in an alternate universe. But! JT Geissinger gave me Ruthless Creatures, and now all bets are off. @panmacmillan.bsky.social

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Golly, do I approve this message from @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social on this Small Business Saturday? I do! bsky.app/profile/twod...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Oh, wait! Take a look at these words from @wildrumpusbooktore.bsky.social and their thoughts about Small Business Saturday! bsky.app/profile/wild...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

These are just a few of the Indie Bookstores I know who are flying through these blue skies — but we’re everywhere! Head over to the American Booksellers Association, type in a city, and voilà! Happy Small Business Saturday! www.bookweb.org/member_direc...

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Search the ABA Bookseller Member Directory

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

“But parking is so expensive!” Guess what? Free parking all weekend in Salem! This is straight from the witch’s mouth! Or, you know, the good people @wickedgoodbooks.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/wick...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Some bookstores are here, some are over there. It’s true! But if you wave to @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social I bet they wave back. Wave to them this Small Business Saturday! bsky.app/profile/silv...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

“I don’t have an Indie bookstore near me. What pray tell can I do on Small Business Saturday?” Well! @bfbookshop.bsky.social has you covered! Shop them online and you can still participate in their fun and games! bsky.app/profile/bfbo...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Maybe you prefer deals? @harvardbookstore.bsky.social has you covered this Small Business Saturday! Stop in, buy some great merch at a discount! Boom! bsky.app/profile/harv...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

There is no greater gift you could give this Small Business Saturday to @ebbooksellers.bsky.social than buying something from them as they open their doors for the first time after the devastating fire that closed those doors — shop small, boost this bookstore! bsky.app/profile/ebbo...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Guess who is really cool? All the booksellers @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social! All of them! Check them out online or in person this Small Business Saturday (in person means you get to see their always stupendous front window!) bsky.app/profile/deem...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Or, or! Listen to one icon celebrating and remembering another icon and then buy books from both icons from @parnassusbooks.bsky.social! Small Business Saturday, engage! bsky.app/profile/parn...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

How about this? Celebrate Small Business Saturday by celebrating the Grand (re) Opening of the terrific @portersqbooks.bsky.social — win win! bsky.app/profile/port...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Or you could jump to the other coast and walk the hallowed nooks and crannies of @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. Support them this Saturday — buy a life changing book of poetry then go Howl at the moon knowing you made a difference today. bsky.app/profile/city...

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Small Business Saturday was a response to 2008’s horrific financial crisis brought on by — well, the usual suspects. So today, please remember, oligarchs never have your interests at heart. Small businesses often do. Buy a book from a neighbor, keep your $ local. Like at the @mysteriousbookshop.com!

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Adding it to my TBR right now! Hope you both have a wonderful day tomorrow!

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Sorry, I cropped part of his cover! I plead ignorance, your Honor! (so here it is with a tad more cover)

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is fortuitous! I just saw the two of you hanging out together @greenapplebooks.bsky.social in San Francisco! I’m voting now and hoping for a better outcome in THIS election! @sgj.bsky.social @erikatwurth.bsky.social

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

So good! I got to introduce her this last April @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social. Such a fabulous event for such a remarkable book!

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Listening to Patti Smith. Trying to take comfort from a poet. Usually, that’s a recipe for disaster. I mean, poets! But Smith is always freaking brilliant. “I awakened to the cry that the people have the power to redeem the work of fools…” (and relax. i’m joking about poets. mostly.)

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Had champagne — which reminded me of the drink I made for Good Night, Irene, from @urrealism.bsky.social. A simple drink, just a nod to the champagne dinners Irene left behind & the raspberry pastilles she took with her when she enlists w/the Red Cross in 1943. A gorgeous book, beautifully told.

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I’ve thought about this, too — I decided against unilaterally blocking followers of repugnant people only because *I* sometimes have followed someone only to realize later “Whoa, this isn’t just a lover of vintage ties/glassware/books/Zippos (whatever) this is an awful person!” (I’ve made mistakes!)

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Nick Petrulakis | Bookseller (with podcast) @drinkswithnick.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My favorite soup in the world. I try to make it like my mom’s and I always fail. But I still try!

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