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Brad Craft

@usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social
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Long time bookseller, writes a little, draws a lot, reads aloud in public but not unannounced

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because Honore de Balzac and because Peter Brooks
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@joeosmonddd.bsky.social Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood. Out now from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Digging translator Michael R Katz
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Verdi for breakfast with Lise Davidsen
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
English essayist zen.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Resisting impulses like an ascetic at a pie-eating contest because A) I do NOT need a change purse however seasonally appropriate and adorable and 2) because I am officially in my getting-rid-of-things era, not my oh-my-how-adorable years. #beadedpurses #ghosts #frogs
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Labor Day working retail and still waiting for the Revolution
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
John Forster, friend and first biographer to Dickens, wrote 700 pages of The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith, 1848, and now it’s mine. I
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The @newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social just called The Disappearers “a masterpiece.” Congratulations @marlonjames.bsky.social
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Faur Maid of Perth. Started this morning
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This was my first ever book of essays, just met again after many decades. Hello old friend.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“I’m not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.” — Tim Curry. Indeed. Well played. You will be missed. Rest in peace. #timcurry #rip #lgbtqia
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sometimes heroes wear wigs. Dolly Parton. Rest in peace. Little sparrow, little sparrow Flies so high and feels no pain
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“A writer is a foreign country.” I keep these for traveling. Marguerite Duras
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
She is a favorite; any form, any subject, any time, anywhere. Read Sigrid Nunez. It Will Come Back to You, from Riverhead Books
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Commuter car concert today: original Broadway cast
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today’s acquisitions
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Sexiest celebrity I ever met? Okay. Without hesitation. Quiet. Genuinely sweet man. Gorgeous. He smiled and I could not tell you a word that was said for the next three minutes. It was… whoa boy. Greg Louganis. #lgbtqia
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Loving these #outsidereditions from Penguin Random House They are reissuing an eclectic selection of unjustly neglected classics, some of which I remember fondly and some I missed altogether at the time like Han Ong’s Fixer Chao.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Adventures in aging gracelessly: had a whole conversation with the beloved husband about how odd it was that of all my summer nightshirts only this one didn’t have a breast pocket. Actually I’d worn it inside out for three days running.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Read Agnes Repplier
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The LGBTQIA elders who taught me to be my gay self
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thanks @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Record store buddy sent me this! So sweet
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Smothered pork chops in mushroom gravy for supper. The beloved husband bought chops the size of Rhode Island. Had to cut one up to fit the pork on the plate!
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Breakfast in the balcony with the very last of The Musketeers . Joyeux anniversaire à l'immirtal Dumas !
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“But what is there about me I am so completely unaware of and which she summons me to know?” — Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein, translated by Richard Seaver, for Pantheon Books #margueriteduras
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Bought this today: The Places of Marguerite Duras, from Magic Hour Press translated by Alison Strayer. Originally published in 1977, interviews conducted by Michelle Porte. The film is available on YouTube. Duras is a place to which I return endlessly and with gratitude.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Marion Cunningham revised the Fannie Farmer Cookbook twice and produced the greatest American cookbook.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Delayed by a day, but birthday dinner was perfect. We will need second jobs to pay for the steaks though.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Under his breath God reminded himself to be ‘crystal clear.’ Humans don’t respond well to oracular vague declarations — Eve ate poison, Samson stopped working out, Abraham just about cut his son’s fucking head off.” — Paige Lewis Paige Lewis, from Canon: A Novel, from Viking.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sometimes dead is better
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“We ought to wear mourning as a sign of civilization, a sign that we remember every man-made death of any kind, whether it took place in prison or in war.” — Marguerite Duras, Yann Andrea Steiner. Duras est immortelle ! #margueriteduras #quotes
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It’s just a cake and ice cream kind of day. Two scoops. (Thanks, decorated British diver and OnlyFans model ((and I’m sure a fascinating and engaging conversationalist)) Jack Laugher MBE Jack Laugher.)
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?” — T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My latest staff recommendation: if you want to understand the rhetoric and policy of the present administration — or the language of you latest employee review — start here: Free to Obey: How the Nazis Invented Modern Management, by Johann Chapoutot.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This week in my commuter car concert, some contemporary soul for summer. Jalen Ngonda Jalen Ngonda’s new album, Doctrine of Love, and The Teskey Brothers The Teskey Brothers’ Run Home Slow. Put some grit in it.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Just don’t feel like we need the 4th right now
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Dumplings and hardboiled b&w
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“… I trust thou wilt remember thou art too low to be their lawful love, and too high to be their unlawful loon.” Waiting with The Fair Maid of Perth for company. #sirwalterscott #waverleynovels
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
So now I’m reading Hexes of the Deadwood Forest, by TOTA Szpila Agnieszka Szpila, translated by Scotia Gilroy Scotia Gilroy. Delicious. #newbook #booksintranslation #polishliterature
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Once, years ago, I jokingly told my father on the phone that me and the beloved were getting old and losing forks from our silverware. That Christmas he gave us a box of forks. Miss you, old man. #fathersday
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“Pride is for the young” — and that the lost may find a way home, and the sad might know joy, and the hurt may heal.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Q: “What’s something you didn’t understand until you got older?” A: Parsley
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Sunday’s child is bonny and blithe and good and gay
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Rest in peace, painter
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Advanced Reader is an oxymoron with most publishing
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
He is simply our greatest living features writer, an American treasure, and a supreme master of nonfiction. New from @libraryofamerica.bsky.social John McPhee, Encounters in Wild America.
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Day off with a familiar
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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.” Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis. And so you were. Rest in peace, poet.
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