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Lester Borgqueen @burgerquest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I Watch the Trailer for I Play Rocky and I Basically See the Whole Movie About the Making of Rocky Which Is a Movie I Have Seen: The Movie

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Got one of those AI bot marketing emails about my memoir Clumsy (which isn’t even due out until 2028) and it includes this “quotation” from the book:

"The clumsy child is poor child is child who is not coordinated but is also not understood, who lacks the social and physical vocabulary that makes navigating the world look easy." That line lands because it

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Even I know that’s not how faith works

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Thank you! And kind of although it I have to keep reminding myself that I did a whole bunch of work to get here lol

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Thank you Nancy!! I’m super excited and nervous about everything!!

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’ve been meaning to tell you, my essay collection How to Look at a Volcano will be released by Book*hug in 2027. The book explores instability through personal, cultural and geological lenses. The title essay comes from a trip I took in 2024 to visit an eruption near Grindavik in southern Iceland

The top of a contract that reads
Book*hug Press
*Adventures in literary publishing since 2004.
401 Richmond Street West
Suite 251
Toronto ON Canada M5V 3A8
+1 416 994 5804
BOOK*HUG PRESS CONTRACT
AGREEMENT made this 19th day of February 2026, between:
Erika Thorkelson
hereinafter referred to as the AUTHOR,
and
Book*hug Press
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 251, Toronto Ontario Canada MSV 3A8
hereinafter referred to as the PUBLISHER, with respect to the work entitled
How to Look at a Volcano hereinafter referred to as the WORK.

A signpost covered in stickers from many visitors sits in a field of rocks. In the background, black cooled lava emits steam

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Letter from an Occupant by the New Pornographers! I heard it on my university radio station and it set my brain on fire. Tried to ask my friends about it but they’d never heard of it. So I tracked it down on Limewire and played it on repeat until everyone understood its greatness. Still love it!

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Clearly there are a lot of people who feel this way!

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This is the perfect conversation piece for guests. I will not be taking questions. Except maybe I will

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Announcing the winners of our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Vinh Nguyen! 🥇 “Metaphors We Die By,” Jennifer Manuel 🥈 “Waiting for the Bus: a memoir of dementia,” Meredith Quartermain 🥉 “The Shrine,” Hannah Roh Find the winning essays + judge’s essay in EVENT 55/1 (Spring/Summer 2026).

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It’s finally happened to me: a student handed in an essay with three imaginary sources. Shocked it took this long tbh

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Oh my goodness, that’s amazing

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I just got a press release claiming “peptides are having a moment” which I can only assume refers to the growing popularity of cellular peptide cake with mint frosting

A woman’s head perched above a cake shaped like a woman’s body in a blue uniform. They are laid out on a table

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

There is a lot of score settling

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I have so much to say about this book. Mostly that it’s just so self indulgent, which wouldn’t be a big deal if she could keep her fingers out of ongoing drama that has absolutely nothing to do with her actually

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

So I’m reading all of that Margaret Atwood memoir for *reasons* and my main thought is, dear god this book needed a proper editor

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It’s Dump Decorative Gourds on the Street Season, Motherfuckers

Some decorative gourds dumped on the grass surrounded by fallen leaves

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Happy birthday my dearest @betarayben.bsky.social! It’s gross that we don’t live in the same city so we can share Ukrainian food and I can tell you drunken stories

A man (Ben) and a woman (me) lean together over a heaping paper plate of Ukranian food

A woman (me) with long earrings and a sort of drunk expression touches a man (Ben) on the arm as if she’s telling him something important

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

It’s Oct 23 and I was just in a restaurant with full Christmas decorations and a load of garland waiting to be added. What is happening???!

A restaurant with a light mint colours bar with dark chairs. In the foreground, a fake Christmas tree

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Explaining the complexities of 90s anime fandom is both frustrating and kind of my kink

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I don’t know what this little guy did, but I forgive him anything

In a leaf covered entry way, behind a dusty black gate, sits a small pumpkin with the words “I’m sorry” written across it in black letters

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

So I yelled something about him being my favourite interviewer before using my bike as a weapon to fight my way out of the crowd. Yet another flawless celebrity interaction to add to my repertoire. I have no photo as evidence, but here’s the essay thewalrus.ca/the-comedy-c...

thewalrus.ca

The Comedy Culture War | The Walrus

A new wave of comics is rejecting stand-up’s tired tropes

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Since I was stuck, I decided to tell him about the essay I wrote for the Walrus a while back where I quoted him and one of my main sources was the comedian Sophie Buddle who he had on his show recently. He smiled big and said, “Sophie’s so cool.” I was so flustered, I didn’t know what else to say…

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Outside the theatre, I was trying to get my bike out of the growing crowd when I looked up and saw this guy with beautiful glasses just standing there. People started saying, hey Marc! And I realized it was the man himself and I was stuck there behind him with my bike as people were taking selfies

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

During the Q&A after, you could tell that Maron’s emotional vulnerability has meant a lot to the folks in the audience, particularly men who’ve struggled with mental health and depression. He’s not perfect, but he’s a great model for the constant struggle to counter toxic masculinity.

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Last night I went to a VIFF screening of the doc Are We Good? About comedian and venerable podcaster Marc Maron followed by a Q&A with the director and subject. The doc was touching and funny, mostly focussed on the sudden loss of his partner and how he processed grief on stage and on his podcast

Three men sit on stage in front of a screen that reads An Evening With Marc Maroon
VIFF Talks
In conversation with Steven Feinartz, director of Are We Good?

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I was literally half way in the door when it started

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Gonna need some of both, I think

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

My partner and I will be putting together an ikea dresser today. Please keep us in your thoughts

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

This is a crime against noodles!

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I saw One Battle After Another last night and it was brilliant and I feel like I need to see it again today just to put it all together in my head

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

A classically complicated way to fall in love online!

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Kids these days have it so easy with AI chatbots. I remember when you had to find real people on the internet to project your romantic feelings onto

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

So the news today is that if you take Tylenol while pregnant you can’t get raptured, right?

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Influencer hell is where you made a joke one time and it really worked and then you have to keep making new permutations of that same joke for the next 5-10 years because now it’s your *brand*

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Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Like Star Trek? Like lying? You might also like this even I’m doing next week! www.eventbrite.ca/e/liars-of-o...

Poster for Liars of Orpheus: Fantasy Planets featuring all the speakers. Doors at 6:30, show at 7. 2434 Main St. the Pleasant.

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