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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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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 · 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 · 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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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Encampment by @maggiehelwig.bsky.social is wonderful. A clear-eyed look at a broken system, yes. But also a rare honouring and centering of people on the margins. Helwig captures individuality and never caricatures. Beautiful and troubling and alive. Read it! @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

The book Encampment by Maggie Hedwig against a colourful floral back drop

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Always thrilling to pick up my pre-orders! Especially an all-Canadian indie line up! Looking forward to reading Andy Brown's Why Fish Piss Matters from Vehicule, Maggie Helwig's Encampment from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, and @terivlass.bsky.social's Living Expenses from @invisibooks.bsky.social!

A hand holding up three books in front of the sign to the Bookmark bookstore in Halifax. The books are Why Fish Piss Matters by Andy Brown, Encampment by Maggie Helwig, and Living Expenses by Teri Vlassopoulous

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Thrilled to get my pre-ordered copy of Everything Is Fine Here from my local bookstore! Set in Uganda, the debut novel from my friend, the incredible @wordsweaver.bsky.social follows a woman experiencing the effects of anti-LBGTQ laws on her family houseofanansi.com/products/eve...

the cover of Everything is Fine Here by Iryn Tushbe, featuring palm trees as a striking visual motif

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Lovely words from Katherine Rundell on the eternal value of kids books www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A passage from "Why children's books?" by Katherine Rundell

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I made a novel! Can’t wait for you to meet these punks. Coming spring 2026 from @houseofanansi.bsky.social

The Publisher's Marketplace deal report for the novel Temporary Palaces by Jeff Miller.

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I will always love Mat Brinkman's MULTIFORCE

Panel 1: Two wizards climb a stairway. Wiz 1: Whew! Let's have a seat. Panel 2: They sit down. Wiz 1: Bust out that special drink
Panel 3 Wiz 2 passes Wiz 1 the flask. Wiz 1: Ahh, thanks

Panel 1: Wiz 1 points out to the landscape and says: Look there's the river where Lam-Zang got swept away. Panel 2: A monster appears, adressing Wiz 1 & 2: Hey you can't sit here! It's in front of my store! Get moving!

Panel 1 Wiz one asks monster: Can I use your toilet? Monster: Only if you buy something. Panel 2 The two wizards walk away, dejected

The cover of the collected MULTIFORCE. Genius work!

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Among the greatest pleasures of my New Year book reorganization was getting all of our mass market paperbacks to fit on this cute lil shelf

A small bookcase full of mass market paperbacks

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

It seems there is an inverse relationship between how much I love a book and how slowly I read it. This thin volume is taking forever. Pure luminous beauty!

Cover of Yuko Tsushima's novel Territory of Light

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Gornick's Goldman bio rules! Emma is irrepressible. From sweatshop worker to rabble-rousing Anarchist speaker. She runs a radical paper, takes lovers, is jailed, meets Kropotkin, becomes a nurse. Emma never sells out, advocating Anarchism to the end. Long live!

The cover of Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick, against a yellow background.

A stencil on a wall in Lyon, France, depicting Emma Goldman, and featuring her name below her portrait

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

@ronb8s.bsky.social I'm fifty pages into The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky. Really enjoying it so far! Follows a jazz band in a small Czech town at the very end of WWII, before the Red Army arrives. Lots of youthful angst!

Jazzy 80s cover of The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Dig this new Jeff Wall of someone flipping out down at the Legion.

Jeff Wall's 2022 art photograph "In the Legion."

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Anyone finish this? Is it worth it? I've got 80 pp left but it's a coma delusion followed by a Coetzee-style essay about death. I think I'm out.

The cover of The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Up at 6:30 to go load Christmas trees on a truck in Ship Harbour. Why is this even a time?

A view of a Nova Scotia harbour before dawn.

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Dartmouth Book Exchange keeps it spicy!🌶️

A bookshelf in the Dartmouth Book Exchange, featuring numerous books with shirtless and heavily muscled men on the cover. A sign notes that this section of the store features "Guys Who Have Lost Their Shirts."

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Stumbled upon a mini exhibition of contemporary drawings from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) on the second floor of Dal's law school. Including these two stunners by Ningiukulu Teevee and Johnny Pootoogook. Please forgive the reflections of very '90s wall sconces!

Drawing by Ningiukulu Teevee entitled "Composition (Owl and Raven)"

Drawing by Johnny Pootoogook entitled "Searching for the Hunt"

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Show me your comics taste in 4 different comics

cover of Multiforce graphic novel by Mat Brinkman.

cover of the graphic novel My New York Diary by Julie Doucet.

cover of the graphic novel The Death of Speedy by Jaime Hernandez.

cover of the graphic novel The Uncanny X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga.

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It’s been great (re)connecting with people here. It may be Polyannaish in a time of disaster and suffering, but I feel lucky to be part of these worlds; readers, writers, booksellers. Folks moved by words. These communities are precious. Here we all are, in the same place at the same time. Amazing.

The painting "Esbjorn Reading On The Veranda" by Carl Larsson. A young white man has propped himself up on a sunny bench, reading.

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Heart full today! Spent the weekend helping at the local bookshop Steeple Green. I worked with owner Michael Lake at a bookstore in Montreal, now we both live in rural Nova Scotia. Nice reminder of how excited folks are about books! When they talk about their favourites their eyes twinkle. Magic!

Two white men holding dogs at a bookstore.

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Solidarity with Canada Post workers on strike! As a life-long pen pal, letter writer, and recipient of mail magic, I stand behind them all the way ✊💌

Two bankers boxes full of letters and packages.

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello new followers! Here is my beagle Shelmerdine. He snuggles, he screams, he zooms, he snoozes in the sun. He does something funny every day. I write CNF, fiction, sometimes reviews, and teach when I can. Started in zines. I live in Nova Scotia, spent many years in Montreal & grew up in Ottawa.

A beagle sitting on the lap of a person reading a book in a chair.

Landscape view of a beagle looking out over a sunset over water.

A beagle sitting on my lap in a green easy chair.

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Super mail day: The debut seven inch from PEI's rippin'-est HC shredders Cell Deth! Plus stickers and a lovely note from Sewercide Records honcho Davis Brown. Support your local DIY punk label!

Image of Cell Deth's debut seven inch record "Catholic Guilt" surrounded by two Cell Deth stickers and a short note on Sewercide Records official stationary. The edge of the note reads "Miserable Maritime Mutant Music."

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Jennifer Whiteford's brilliant new novel about tender punks falling in love hits the streets TODAY! Take a chance on romance this fall! 🧷💗

A hand holding the book Make Me a Mixtape by Jennifer Whiteford.

A smiling person holding a copy of the book Make me a Mixtape by Jennifer Whiteford.

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

The new issue of long-running comic book Palookaville finds Seth beautifully illustrating what he remembers (and doesn't) about a transformative kitchen job. Also includes five improvised strips from his notebooks rich with incident, in vibrant colour. Wonderful!

Cover of Palookavile 24 against a colourful backdrop

Two-page comic spread from Palookaville 24, entitled Sunburst

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

This wonderful novel captures the uncertainty and loneliness of the early months of lockdown. Featuring Sigrid Nunez's signature reflections on literature, animals, and aging. Her narrator considers questions big and small with care and precision. I loved it!

A hardback copy of The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez, against a blue background.

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Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Really enjoyed North Woods by Daniel Mason. The novel charts the 400-year history of a house in Massachusetts. Constantly surprising, wonderfully assured prose seemingly capable of anything. Vibrant characters, memorable scenes, funny, emotional, surreal. Thanks for the rec @jdunkin.bsky.social

Cover of North Woods by Daniel Mason on a colourful afghan

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