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Stephen Sposato

@stephensposato.bsky.social
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📚🍿🎧 I am mostly here to talk about books and cheer on good people.

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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Goodreads algo recs are usually passable, if uninspired. But I just finished a book in ENGLISH translation. And they recommended only non-English books to me. Folks, remember you can ask your local librarian for books tailored to your taste. You deserve better.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OK, I think these are my favorite awards picks so far this year. Exceptionally well done, Cercador judges. www.cercadorprize.com
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Cercador Prize
The Cercador Prize recognizes works of literature in translation as selected by a committee of independent booksellers based across the United States.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah, blech to that.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So disappointing. This gave me a little bit of hope over the weekend. www.comicbasics.com/a24-just-out...
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A24 Just Out-Muscled Warner Bros. and Paramount at the Summer Box Office
Summer at the movies has long belonged to the biggest studios. Franchise sequels, superhero team-ups and family animation usually fill the calendar, while
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Everyone see this? www.readersfirst.org/news/2026/9/...
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Significant flaw in new library eBook study — Readers First
On Tuesday, September 1, 2026, the AAP and Authors Guild announced a new study they commissioned to analyze the impact of library eBooks and eAudiobooks on the retail market. However, their study au...
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Why is it so wrong to try subsidizing groceries as an experiment? Haven’t we been told for decades it’s OK to innovate, to move fast and break things? What values is THAT philosophy based in? My hot take: it’s good to try things to solve problems.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Wow. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Quote from article: “It’s truly a sign of the times. There’s a growing crisis as AI slop continues to make it increasingly difficult for genuine writers to stand out. Whether accusations of authors having used AI are founded or not almost seems beside the point — the tech has made a huge mess of the publishing world that feels increasingly impossible to clean up.”
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Oh yes. I keep 1 note on my phone for movies, 1 for TV. They only grow. I have categories for solo watching vs watching w my spouse & rankings within each. I mark some high priority. I often rerank/prune. I collect best-of/year-end lists. For books it’s beyond obsessive but that’s partly for work.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It actually accepted RANDO. 😆
Photo of NY Times’s board today for the game Spelling Bee.
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Susan Maguire @booklistsusan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It's live! The list for @ala-booklist.bsky.social and @libraryreads.bsky.social's Read n Rave at #ALAAC26 is up on the Booklist website! Wow! www.booklistonline.com/products/982...
Poster for Booklist and LibraryReads present: Read n Rave; rainbow text on white background with the time and place information (which is irrelevant because the event already happened! But the list is live!), plus logos for LibraryReads and Booklist.
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Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
You all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Authors Guild Looks at Why Author Incomes Are in Decline
A survey commissioned by the Guild found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a paid subscription, with readers increasingly turning to low- or no...
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Only recently experienced the magic of Grease 2 for the first time. ❤️❤️❤️🙌
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Oh my goodness, this is a sad loss.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I started seeing a generational shift w/ readers a decade ago. Stories usually have to have genre elements now to get traction. Horror ranks very high but it’s not the only genre of interest. The film audiences have grown up on Lynch. They also love Criterion and are hungry for good curation.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is so exciting! And I love this for the Chicago writing scene!
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Wouldn’t it be wonderful (and wonderful irony) if this war started by such a champion of oil actually accelerated disinvestment in oil energy? I so want to believe.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
So, Late-Stage Capitalism Personified, we meet at last.
Reese’s Oreo candy.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I love Christian Petzold’s films. I saw Miroirs No. 3 recently and couldn’t get it out of my head. So I found his older film Wolfsburg online (N/A on video but on YT) and watched it and…the way the two connect blew my everloving mind. I had no idea. If you like his movies, check them both out!
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Oh please please please don’t mess up Letterboxd. It’s one of the few apps/sites left that I genuinely love. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
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Exclusive: What’s next for Letterboxd?
The controlling investor in Letterboxd, the cinephile social platform, is looking to sell its stake.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Super interesting pop culture piece here about how (not) to depict pop stars in music. (Can confirm The Ballad of Wallis Island and Stereophonic were both excellent.)
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Personally, the last thing I want from a restaurant is the “experiential.” 😆 Waiter, can’t you see we’re talking here? The fewer interruptions, the better.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Today’s welcome giggles came from going down the rabbit hole of fans having fun with LaNesa’s immortal “baby jane doe.” Honestly, do a search of Reels, TikTok, Instagram, wherever. www.indiewire.com/features/int...
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What ‘The Pitt’ Gets Right (and Wrong) About ‘Pittsburghese’
Star Katherine LaNasa might not be a born-and-bred Yinzer, but she gets much of that unique accent right. It's not easy.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“It’s the kind of book, down with which, readers will not put!” 😆 quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/04/c...
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Quote Origin This Is the Sort of Nonsense Up With Which I Will Not Put – Quote Investigator®
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Very much the same over-reliance is happening is contemporary fiction, too. It’s losing all freshness. I know these techniques have their fans/comforts, but if editors are INSISTING on this (!?) then they really need to step back and let artists explore other approaches.
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Reference and User Services Association @ala-rusa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Tell your Senators to sign on to hashtag #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget. Your voice can make a difference: We need every advocate to speak out! www.ala.org/advocacy/show-up-for-ou…
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Show Up for Our Libraries
Join us and Show Up #ForOurLibraries.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
There ought to be a form of leave one could take. A Federal Readers Leave Act? (FRLA)?
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 04/02/2026
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We are honored to announce the 2026 #ALA_Carnegie winners: 🥇#Nonfiction: Yiyun Li, THINGS IN NATURE MERLY GROW 🥇#Fiction: Megha Majumdar, A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF Congratulations to our winners and publishers, @macmillanlib.bsky.social and @prhlibrary.bsky.social🎉 Read more: bit.ly/46gpBfU
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Reference and User Services Association @ala-rusa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Level Up Your Cooking with RUSA's 2026 CODES Essential Cookbooks List released today at rusaupdate.org/2026/01/essential-co…
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Notable Books is another great awards list: congratulations to all! rusaupdate.org/2026/01/2026...
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2026 Notable Books List Announced: Year’s Best in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry
CHICAGO- The Notable Books Council, first established in 1944, has released the 2026 selections of the Notable Books List, an annual best-of list comprised of twenty six titles written for adult re…
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Some of my very favorite book awards get announced today. The Reading List is a great resource for genre fiction. Congratulations to the authors and to the librarians who did SO much reading! 📚
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is so lovely to see. Becky is a powerful - and effective - advocate for reading. Hooray! 🎉
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Sometimes a novel just pulls me in with its pure, immersive storytelling and WOODWORKING by Emily St. James (Crooked Media Reads) was like that. I loved the characters and their relationships like a TV show I wanted to keep going. I got the best responses from recommending this. #LibFaves25 Day 10
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), with its shocking story of personal loss, is one of the bravest memoirs - make that books - I have ever read. I savored the way she eviscerates the cliches of grief. Her dedication to truth is beautiful. #LibFaves25 Day 9
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
RAISING HARE: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton (Pantheon) is a touching story about rescuing a wild leveret, and the level of craft to the writing really stuns. Dalton is incredibly careful and humane and insightful. I would read anything (fiction or non) she chooses to write about next. #LibFaves25 Day 8
Book cover of Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Shout-out for the beautiful audio production narrated by the great J. Smith-Cameron.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico (New York Review Books), a retelling of G. Perec’s Things, is a fascinating portrait of an ex-pat young couple working in web design and pursuing all the cool things in lifestyle yet somehow never having a life. It’s almost horror w/o being horror. #LibFaves25 Day 7
Book cover of PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
FLESH by David Szalay (Scribner) is disturbing but gripping. I have been haunted since I read it by the enigmatic nature of the central character who rarely says more than “OK.” I love the way it leans into fiction’s unique ambiguities. (Adapting it for the screen would ruin it.) #LibFaves25 Day 6
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I’ve been a fan of Daniel Kehlmann for years but I wasn’t prepared for how much THE DIRECTOR (S&S/Summit Books) speaks to our times. It’s uncanny. Plus the novel is so inventive and satisfying. It’s been fun watching readers slowly come around to it at last. #LibFaves25 Day 5
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I didn’t know if I would like it but it was very satisfying.
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
(This is why you don’t put your titles in alphabetical order (😂) but I am so glad I just realized this was missing from my reading log.)
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I took a chance on BAD BAD GIRL by Gish Jen (Knopf), never having read the author before, and this book became an instant favorite. Totally by chance, mother/daughter relationships were a big theme in my reading this year. It also tells a classic immigration story. It’s wonderful! #LibFaves25 Day 4
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Matthew, I can’t wait to see your final 10. I always look forward to your reviews!
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
DARK RENAISSANCE by Stephen Greenblatt (W. W. Norton & Co.) is a fascinating bio of Christopher Marlowe and a memorable portrait of the Elizabethan era. I was once again blown away by what Greenblatt can accomplish with the fragmentary historical record. #LibFaves25 Day 3
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I had sworn off dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction but AUTOMATIC NOODLE by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) tempted me through my love of robot characters and grew on me the more I read it. I have had a lot of success recommending this one. Yes, you will want noodles when you are done. #LibFaves25 Day 2
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I picked up ACTRESS OF A CERTAIN AGE / Jeff Hiller (Simon & Schuster) because I adore Jeff’s work on TV’s Somebody Somewhere. His memoir is clever, funny, self-mocking and just delightful. #LibFaves25 Day 1
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Stephen Sposato @stephensposato.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The annual LibFaves countdown is going on where librarians share their favorite reads of the year, and I have some catching up to do. Will post my top 10 in alphabetical order by title, but I am not done reading 2025 books and there were many more I wanted to include! #LibFaves25
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Jenna Marie @jennamariekittycat.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Attention library staff everywhere! We’re nearing the end of the year, so you know what time it is: Library faves kicks off in ONE WEEK, December 8th!! Count down your 📚 10 favorite books 📚 published in 2025, 1 per day, through 12/17. TITLE in caps, tag #LibFaves25. Can’t wait to see your picks!
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