Gary Lovely

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Bookstore manager. Indie publisher. Kentuckian.

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Gary Lovely to Join Two Dollar Radio HQ as Co-Ownert.co Lovely, currently store manager at Prologue Bookshop in Columbus, Ohio, will join the Columbus-based publisher’s bookstore-bar-café business as co-owner and managing partner in September.

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Amplify the Teamsters’ resistance to UPS’s decision to cut back on rural delivery service. teamster.org/wp-content/u...

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Hi friends: From now until the end of May, we (@PrologueBkshop) are committing 100% of the profits from these books (in-store and online) to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund. The list: store.prologuebookshop.com/prologue-pales… 🍉🇵🇸

The students behind WKCR are doing an incredible job reporting from Columbia. Listen live: t.co/VbbKmfeHGg

WKCR 89.9FM NYt.co

packing up some books, found some gold

This is the honor of a lifetime. I'm endlessly grateful to be judging this award with such an incredible group of talented people.

Submissions Open for the 2024 National Book Awardst.co Twenty-five judges in five categories will review submitted titles and select the five Winners of the 75th National Book Awards

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This is a super list of judges. And heyyyyy @colonellovely.bsky.social on the Translated Lit panel with Jhumpa Lahiri! (!!!!!!) @tressiemcphd.bsky.social chairing the Nonfiction panel!

Submissions Open for the 2024 National Book Awardswww.nationalbook.org Twenty-five judges in five categories will review submitted titles and select the five Winners of the 75th National Book Awards

Lots of very memorable moments with many great friends this week, but staying up until way too late, drinking and talking to Paul Yamazaki made the whole trip. Love y'all. Thanks for hanging in Ohio.

Booksellers are currently vocalizing their support for Palestine during the ABA town hall at Winter Institute 🍉🔥

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Poster I designed for an event at #DownboundBooks with the legend #HanifAbdurraquib. Shout out to @colonellovely.bsky.social for wrangling me into this. Looking forward to seeing all my book friends soon.

So rad.

Man this is bleak

Columbus brutalism.

Finally listening to John Coltrane thanks to Paul Yamazaki.

Very happy to be selling books in the time of Paul Yamazaki. Reading the Room was wonderful.

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Definitely a lot missing from this photo (at the bookshop or in my inbox), but here's a few books I'm excited about starting/finishing soon. Trying to be more intentional about keeping track. (Silent Whale Letters was great)

publishing national book award finalists for works in translation and not putting the translator's name on the cover is dork shit

Shout out to @mesjak.bsky.social for the heads up on this one.

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Outlaw

I haven't been posting (as much) or reading very much poetry lately, but this is a very good book. It's only 72 pages and releases in March. An exploration of collected trauma, responding to the El Salado massacre.

about time to get the fellas together

excited for this one

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well folks, looks like I’m writing a trilogy thanks so much to @microcosm.bsky.social for taking another chance on this guy

Rest in piss

I recommended some works in translation for the literary champs at Center for the Art of Translation. t.co/28VP4WMzBK

at the mall, admiring the Jart