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Jeff Miller

@theghostpine.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, punk | MFA UBC | He/him Novel: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, out now!) Non-fiction: Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OTTAWA: i'll be doing two launch events for The Politics of Lonely, both on Saturday, October 24: ✨ signing at @octopusbooks.ca ✨ launch/reading/convo with @alexisshotwell.bsky.social and Adrienne Row-Smith at The Grove (location changed for capacity reasons!) sheerspite.ca/blog/2026/08...
saturday October  24 11 am - 1 pm - Ottawa Book Signing  
I'll be sitting out front of Octopus Books (116 Third Avenue at Bank St.) to sign books and chat.  Come say hi! Rain date Sunday October 25, 11-1. 

saturday October 24, 5 -7 pm
Ottawa Book Launch & Friendship Forum with Alexis Shotwell & Adrienne Row-Smith      
NEW LOCATION: The Grove,  18 Louisa Street Unit 280
fundraiser for the Ottawa Trans Library 
registration not required to order the book or anything else for pickup,  use code OTTAWALAUNCH at sheerspite.ca  :) Alexis Shotwell is a queer SF nerd, functional potter, teacher, and writer, currently living on unceded Algonquin land. Author of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (about why purity won’t save us) and the forthcoming Liberation is Other People (about getting together to solve big problems in which we are complicit), she is also finishing a book about Ursula K. Le Guin’s anarchism and why it’s so great.Adrienne Row-Smith (she/her) is a Queer Black visual specialist based in so-called Ottawa, working across photo and video to create bold, impactful imagery. Rooted in a deep commitment to authenticity and accessibility in media, she co-founded The Grove, which is an interdisciplinary art and community space offering affordable rentals and sliding-scale events. Through both her creative practice and community work, Adrienne aims to build a space and working body that reflects the elements of care, resistance, and belonging, where disenfranchised voices are not only heard but celebrated.Lee Arden  is the author of The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?, a book that takes friendship out of an individualistic context and argues that we’re struggling with our friendships because we live in the decaying ruins of colonial capitalism. Lee also runs the small press and zine distro Sheer Spite Press and has written lots of zines, including PALS: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship, which formed the basis for this new book.
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
my book, The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard, in memes & posts - a thread ⬇
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So excited to talk friendship with my friend Jeff, who is both an excellent friend and someone who writes exquisitely about friendship in both his fiction and nonfiction work! venusenvy.ca/collections/workshops/products/the-politics-of-lonely-a-book-launch-and-friendship-forum
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's here!!!! Lee Arden's @sheerspite.bsky.social new book The Politics of Lonely is out now from @fernpub.bsky.social !! Sunday I will be joining Lee @venusenvyhfx.bsky.social for a very special book launch, reading our work and discussing the enlivening and enervating magic of friendship!
A photo of The Politics of Lonely by Lee Arden
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
book is out this week! if you know anyone in halifax tell them to come say hi! tabling at the halifax art book fair friday and saturday! sunday is my FIRST BOOK LAUNCH with cherished friend @theghostpine.bsky.social at @venusenvyhfx.bsky.social! venusenvy.ca/collections/...
Halifax! 

Friday Sep 11, Saturday Sep 12, 11-6: tabling at halifax art book fair. 

saturday sep 12, 10-6: Halifax Anarchist Book Fair: I won’t be there but Fernwood will have my book and Venus Envy will have my zines :)  I bet it will be nice!  

Sunday sep 13, 6:30 pm: Book Launch & Friendship Forum with Jeff Miller, at Venus Envy Registration required Masks required & provided.

Pictures of Lee's book "The Politics of Lonely" and Jeff's book "Temporary Palaces", with a photo of Lee and Jeff hugging, each of them is labelled with their name and the caption "(WE ARE FRIENDS)"
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Halifax this is going to be amazing! Sunday at Venus Envy!
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Halifax join me in celebrating Lee's incredible new book! These days friendship is more valuable and necessary than ever, so we're lucky this brilliant volume hits shelves soon
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
the very first launch for The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard? will be in Halifax at @venusenvyhfx.bsky.social with my beloved friend (and true friendship expert) @theghostpine.bsky.social It will be in-person and livestreamed; registration is required: venusenvy.ca/collections/...
Halifax Book Launch &  Friendship Forum 

Why is it so hard to show up for  each other the ways we want to?  
And how can we build a more interconnected world?

Sunday, September 13, 6:30 - 8 pm 
Venus Envy (and livestreamed!)  
1727 Barrington St, Halifax Masks required and provided 
Registration required (on the Venus Envy website)
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/08/2026
‘There is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. Displaying them together like this reminds us that, when a book is bound in handmade papers, every copy is unique.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Dennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press
There is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. With their marbled,...
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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · 26/06/2026
@joycuriosity.bsky.social invited me to join her on @ckcufm.bsky.social Friday Special Blend to interview @theghostpine.bsky.social about his novel Temporary Palaces, inspired by and set in Ottawa's punk scene of early aughts. The episode aired this morning. You can stream it here 👇
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Temporary Palaces - Friday Special Blend - 2026-06-26
In our first hour, Jeff Miller joins Susan and guest host Sarah Gelbard to talk about his novel Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, 2026), which captures Ottawa’s punk scene across 2001 and 2011 throu...
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Grilled Cheese @grilledcheese.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I devoured this book. It was exactly what I've wanted a book about music- playing and experiencing it- to be. Jeff Miller wrote a perfect book about music and subcultures and the people who create them. I immediately started re-reading it. I can't recommend this highly enough.
A book "Temporary Palaces" by Jeff Miller.
The cover has a run down house that is heavily grafittied and boarded up.
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scruss @scruss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Just finished this, and loved every page
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David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"The book is full of songs playing in cafés and late-night bus stations, on tape decks in kitchens and living-room turntables, broadcast on pirate radio or performed by punk bands in sweaty, crowded rooms." Jeff Miller shared a playlist for Temporary Palaces largeheartedboy.com/2026/05/11/j...
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vish khanna @vishkhanna.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
1094! Jeff Miller hear Kreative Kontrol ⬇️ 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e... 💰: www.patreon.com/posts/ep-109... ☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_nsWO40Q vk: bit.ly/4ucnDY8 🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna @theghostpine.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social
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49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Unwritten Future: Exploring Canadian Countercultures with Jeff Miller, author of Temporary Palaces! @houseofanansi.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/04... #CanLit
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Unwritten Future: Exploring Canadian Countercultures · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
A recommended reading list by the author of Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi Press).
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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Book List: @theghostpine.bsky.social Recommended 8 Books About Radical Living and Creative Communities debutiful.net/2026/04/24/8...
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage.
A woman answers the door.
We have come for the child, says the hooded figure
So soon? she asks
It is time, says the hooded figure.
The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card!
What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure
We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! 
For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness
Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman,
the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them.
Do not cry mother. 
I am a writer now.
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I'm taking Temporary Palaces on the road! Hope to see you in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Peterborough, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Charlottetown this spring!
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
My novel Temporary Palaces is out now from @houseofanansi.bsky.social! Available at your local independent bookstore or library. I can't wait for you to meet these punks! houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
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Temporary Palaces
"A plainspoken, punk-rock hymn … This is a book that will pick you up off the floor of a mosh pit and wrap you in its arms." —Sean Michaels In the fevered summer of 2001, charismatic activist Rob and ...
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Come for the heart-warming craft essay about how the zine community made me a novelist, stay for the photo of me as a greasy teen zinester! Thanks so much to Lit Hub which I'm told has some zinemakers in it's ranks :) It's a true honour to be published here! @houseofanansi.bsky.social #zines
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Ontario Book Publishers Organization @obpoofficial.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A short-lived community lingers long after it is gone in TEMPORARY PALACES (@houseofanansi.bsky.social). Check out our interview with the author of this "punk rock hymn," Jeff Miller, in advance of the April 21st release! #AmReading #Novel #Fiction #CanLit open-book.ca/News/A-Short...
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A Short-Lived Community Lingers Long After it is Gone in TEMPORARY PALACES
A short-lived community leaves a long afterlife in Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi Press), a debut novel from Jeff Miller that circles back to one ...
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Lezlie Lowe ~ lezlielowe.com @lezlielowe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Promising weekend ahead! @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @theghostpine.bsky.social @gaspereaupress.bsky.social
Two fiction books
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Love this public service announcement on a neighborhood bulletin board (looks like it got wet in the rain, that's why it's a bit blurry) "NO ONE CAN TAKE SELF PUBLISHING AWAY FROM YOU. NO ALGORITHMS OR OLIGARCHS CAN CENSOR YOU. NO GATEKEEPERS CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IS NOT IMPORTANT..."🌹🥀
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NO ONE CAN TAKE SELF PUBLISHING AWAY FROM YOU. NO ALGORITHMS OR OLIGARCHS CAN CENSOR YOU. NO GATEKEEPERS CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IS NOT IMPORTANT OR VALUABLE. NO GRANT FUNDING CAN BE WITHDRAWN FROM YOUR WORDS. NO INSTITUTION CAN BAR YOU FROM ENTERING. NO KNOWLEDGE IS UNAUTHORIZED. THAT IS WHY YOU MUST 

ZINES!
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Sean Michaels @swanmichaels.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
So happy to be helping celebrate the launch of @theghostpine.bsky.social's first novel when he swings through Montreal! Zine legend turned literary it-boy—May 18 at De Stiil.
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Thirty(!) years ago tonight we were at the last show at 5 Arlington. Wow. Thanks to the old heads who shepherded this footage onto the internet. And rest in power to the one and only Mathieu Trudel, who filmed it youtu.be/kT7C1WtboJg?...
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Shotmaker & Okara — Final Live Show at 5 Arlington, Ottawa (January 3, 1996)
YouTube video by P.M.S.G.
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Lately
A hand holding a Penguin Classics edition of Sketches From a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev in front of a domestic background
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Sean Michaels @swanmichaels.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much. www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...
illustration of a night-blowing cereus flower and the words SAID THE GRAMOPHONE BEST SONGS OF 2025.
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Excellent review of a recent book about a Paris squat @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Squats partout!
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Perfect Saturday morning read. ☕️https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/drimonis-from-greece-to-greasy-spoon-a-chat-with-greenspots-co-owner
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Drimonis: From Greece to greasy spoon — a chat with Greenspot's co-owner
Sharing a large apartment in the Mile End with other immigrant families to save money and eventually invest in something was the norm back then.
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Carla Gillis @carlagillis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Extremely excited for @theghostpine.bsky.social's Temporary Places, coming in April. Warm, insightful, relatable writing from one of the best humans I know.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 11/12/2025
Wrote a newsletter about rebuilding a Walmart overnight, exhaustion, memories of home and the holidays, and why I think "Wonderful Christmastime" is good when heard in the right place.
anxietyshark.ca
We're here tonight, and that's enough
“Wonderful Christmastime” is not a perfect song. It might not work on your holiday playlist, or stand proud on a list of beloved classics, but it might be that it’s not a song to be played at home wit...
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
so excited about this-- @theghostpine.bsky.social is one of my favourite writers, as well as one of the kindest people you could hope to know.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 12/12/2025
read an early copy of this and really loved it, keep an eye on this one next year
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I love 19th c literature but sometimes worry I don't know enough about horse carts to really get it
Excerpt from "Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands" by Turgenev describing some cart business I really don't get
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Happy Amazing there's a new Sam Lipsyte story in the @newyorker.com day to all who celebrate!!!
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“Final Boy,” by Sam Lipsyte
“Oh, you write fan fiction,” she said. “We all write fan fiction,” I told her. “Some of us are just more honest about it.”
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In need of joy? Check out this powerful instrumental underground rock and feel alive again
orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com
Orcutt Shelley Miller, by Orcutt Shelley Miller
5 track album
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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 18/08/2025
ZINEDUMP is a new Toronto #zinefair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas. The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre. Applications are due August 31st!!! zinedump.fyi #zines #zinesdiy
Photo of a photocopied flyer:

ZINEDUMP

New Toronto Zine Fair

(then the same information as in the post)

Apply more and learn more: 
www.zinedump.fyi
IG: @zinedump.fyi
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
After an 11-year hiatus, @theghostpine.bsky.social has put out a new zine! Memories of growing up in suburban Ottawa and discovering coffee and punk as a teenager, Jeff’s current life in rural Nova Scotia, exchanging letters with friends across decades. sheerspite.ca/product/ghos...
Ghost Pine, a quarter-letter sized zine, whose cover image shows an old illustration of two people in dresses and big hats perusing books under a sign that reads "All the very latest novels." The zine is shown against a blue-green gradient background, with the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake. Text along the sides of the image reads "all stories true", a slogan that has appeared on other issues of Ghost Pine
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Beautiful review of the reunion of one of the greatest bands of the 2010s. They made music perfect for hot sunny days like these
theguardian.com
Dick Diver review – beloved ‘dolewave’ band’s one-off reunion brings out Melbourne for four magical shows
Thornbury Theatre, MelbourneIt has been 10 years since their last album but you’d be forgiven for forgetting any time had passed at all – they sound as tight as ever
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Yesssss up on the website soon >:)
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Heading to Sappyfest this weekend with a new issue of Ghost Pine zine, the first in a while!
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 15/07/2025
New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible. ⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s... @internetarchiveca.bsky.social
Cover of Dark Fantasy No. 22 (1980), published by Shadow Press. The title is printed in bold, stylized yellow and black text at the top. The central illustration features a medieval knight in armor leaning against a large, leaf-covered tree, holding a bow and arrows. A castle is faintly visible in the background. A diagonal black-and-yellow banner across the bottom reads, “Nominated for 10 SPWAO Awards.” Price is listed as $1.50.
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Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I asked our friend Paul to design this Cooler At The Coast shirt for Jeff's birthday and it turned out so rad! Now you can get your own and/or some other cool stuff from him! Check out the Peace Worm pin ☮︎
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Carla Gillis @carlagillis.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Buy some of @paulghammond.bsky.social's excellent work!
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
RIP to the first place I bought nutritional yeast
ctvnews.ca
Kardish Health Food Centre closing all Ottawa stores
Ottawa-based Kardish Health Food Centre has announced it will be closing all its remaining locations after nearly five decades in business.
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The French balados on Radio Canada's Ohdio app are wild. Today I listened to a lady who wrote a book about Proust, a gruff chansonier, and the first drummer of Motorhead(!) on a panel discussion about books and music. The Ringer podcast network would never
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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Sweet essay, with cameos from some of my all-time favourite novels
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Canadian Books Made Me Canadian - Macleans.ca
I left Russia as the country slid into authoritarianism and arrived in Canada knowing no one. In its novels, I found a blueprint for how to survive as a nation in the age of anger.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@wordsweaver.bsky.social‬ on writing stories of African Black queer joy under oppression as an act of faith.
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Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression
In the spring of 2015, after I’d been working as a journalist for nearly two years, my post-graduation Work Permit expired. I’d been in Canada for seven years by then. I was allowed to stay in the …
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