A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

More than six weeks after the Gaza ceasefire came into force, journalists are still prevented by the Israeli military from entering the Gaza Strip.

Two children have been killed every day in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire began. Why has this disappeared from the headlines? The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

A pretty bleak thing that GenAI is revealing is that a significant percentage of the population seems to have no interest in actually learning or doing anything. They want to ChatGPT their way out of hobbies, art making, everything... www.thecut.com/article/woul...

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

The stories in RUBBLE CHILDREN by Aaron Kreuter explore contemporary Jewish Canadian identity. Now available in audio as well as print and e-editions! https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF @aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity #Toronto

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Toronto friends, join editors Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik, along with contributors Lily Cho, Robert Zacharias, and Sophie Feng, for the launch of SHELTER IN TEXT on Nov 12. Food! Drinks! Books for purchase! Centre for Creativity, U of T, 5 - 7 pm ET. Info: https://bit.ly/48JlXNT ##TorontoLitUp

RUBBLE CHILDREN stories are emotionally poignant tales of childhood political discovery, teenage sexual awakening, the dissolution of adult romantic relationships, and discussions about Zionism. Now in audio! https://bit.ly/4bXHSzF @aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #JewishIdentity

1/27... Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Best Canadian Stories 2026 (selected by Zsuzsi Gartner) and Poetry (Mary Dalton), both @biblioasis.bsky.social - and a thread of writing online by some of the folks in these anthologies (although mostly not the pieces in the anthologies). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

Praying for everyone. What a terrible situation.

We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social

What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.

If Gene Roddenberry was still alive and running Star Trek, I guarantee we'd be getting thinly veiled allegories about anti-vaccine bullshit or xenophobia. It would not be subtle. It would hit reasonably hard. People would complain endlessly that Star Trek had gotten too progressive.

Air Canada strike: “We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said. “If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”

The Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture and the Vancouver Public Library are collaborating to put on this book talk with @aaronkreuter.bsky.social on Sept 13th at the Central Library. shall have to look for a copy before then😁

Upcoming events for Lake Burntshore!

Next week, Sandra Fox will discuss how summer camps met—or failed to meet—the postwar fears and hopes of American Jews, and @aaronkreuter.bsky.social will explore their potential as transformative sites for reckoning with settler colonialism both at home and in Israel/Palestine. Join us! 👇

New review of Lake Burntshore up now at Kirkus Reviews! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

New substack: open.substack.com/pub/aaronkre...

A funny & emotionally resonant coming-of-age novel about one summer of momentous social & political change at a Jewish sleepover camp, 'Lake Burntshore' by @aaronkreuter.bsky.social is our Featured #CanLit in-store! 💕🇨🇦📚 tidewaterbooks.ca 💕🇨🇦📚 #IndieBookstoreCA #ShopSmall @ecwpress.bsky.social

The first 11 pages are names of babies who are dead under the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children.

This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.

I really can't stomach embracing AI whatsoever when it's going to decimate livelihoods and the existence of art itself, sorry. Article includes a voice actor, predictably.

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

Oh look it’s some of the book covers I’ve designed recently for some truly great Canadian authors

This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.

World leaders can make as many statements as they like opposing Israel's actions in Gaza. Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians. Stop arming genocide, now.

“I want to save as many as these 14,000 babies as we can in the next 48 hours,” he told the BBC.

This is absolute insanity, the end of times on so many levels!

I encounter more and more people in real life lately who think AI genuinely is some kind of truth machine and it feels like they are living on a different planet in a way that is just incredibly distressing

A reviewer at goodreads called me a commie.

My online convo with Jen Sookfong Lee is tomorrow at 7 PM EST. We'll be talking novels, publishing, antizionism, whatever comes up! Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/aaron-kreu...

My interview at Open Book is now up!

"Conservatives Vote For Change, which is why we are voting in an interim leader who has already had the job and been defeated, until the current guy who was defeated in his own riding can get his job back" i mean do these people hear themselves www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Had a dream I found a worn copy of an anthology of Canadian short stories edited by Michael Ondaatje at a used bookstore kiosk. I hadn't heard of a single story or author listed on the back. I didn't buy it tho because the cover was missing.

Check out "Back to the Land" a book list by @aaronkreuter.bsky.social, author of Lake Burntshore @ecwpress.bsky.social with titles that explore "how greed, colonialism, extractivism, violence, but also reciprocity, understanding, and diaspora manifests on the land..." 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/04...

The next time someone tells you some dumb-ass tech thing is "inevitable" even if a company has spent tens of billions of dollars on it

"We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.” —From the introduction to “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters

no one: weed stores: this is a flavorful cousin of gorilla butter

Very excited (and a little bit nervous!) to read comrade @aaronkreuter.bsky.social ‘s new novel: Lake Burntshore.

The stories in RUBBLE CHILDREN explore contemporary Jewish Canadian identity. Aaron Kreuter makes a substantial contribution to Jewish Canadian literature and Toronto literature as well Canadian literature. bit.ly/4bXHSzF @aaronkreuter.bsky.social #MiddleEast #Fiction #CanLit #JewishIdentity

6:30pm start (ET) TYPE Books Junction 2887 Dundas W. A busy #canlit weekend. We hope you’ll join us and three incredible authors! @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social @julesfdelorme.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social