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08/08/2025

5,000 miles since your last? then you’re due for an oil change – get yer NATIONAL L**E from at the link in bio 🛞

21/05/2025

Ryan Skrabalak’s NATIONAL L**E is back in print and slicker than ever – get your copy from at the link in bio!

04/03/2025

NATIONAL L**E is officially ⚡️ sold out !! ⚡️ but don’t worry – second run coming soon, watch this space for updates 👀

17/02/2025

⚠️ low stock alert ⚠️ NATIONAL L**E has been selling like hot cakes 🥞 and we’re down to our final copies – head to the link in bio to get your copy from asap!

23/01/2025

♾️ speCt! titles now distributed by ♾️

14/01/2025

NATIONAL L**E now back in stock at – link in bio to order!

08/01/2025

NATIONAL L**E now shipping to “Nebrasky,” 49 other states, & the 🌎 world – get yours from at the link in bio – swipe ⬅️ for more excerpts ❤️‍🔥

02/11/2022

🌊 new book alert!!! 🌊 Laura Woltag’s debut collection SERVICEABLE CLOTHES FOR LIFE IN THE OPEN drops next Saturday, 11/12. Pre-order link in bio, you’re gonna want these 🧥🩳🧦 hot off the press!

05/06/2022

Join us this Friday, 6/10, at 5 pm PDT / 8 pm EDT, to celebrate the release of Brian Whitener's The 90s! RSVP at bit.ly/3MeYUM5.

05/06/2022

June 10 Virtual Release Reading: The 90s by Brian Whitener -

speCt! books was founded in 2012 and operates out of Oakland, California. We print chapbooks, fine art, ephemera, and OAR, a journal of poetry.

04/06/2022

🚨new title alert!!!🚨speCt is thrilled to announce the release of Brian Whitener’s The 90s 📺💿💄 Swipe to read what people are saying about it, then click the link in bio to pre-order

26/05/2022

Announcing our newest title: The 90s by Brian Whitener -

Brian Whitener’s The 90s weaves together the language of media, of mainstream culture, of ideology of the 90s with the pleasurable vocabulary of lived experience of that moment. It also disaggregates the larger historical vocabulary and the personal vocabulary, over and over. It gets at history,...