Molly McCarron
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Writing, observations from the backyard
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New year, new additions to my map of little free libraries in the east end of Toronto (for this project: roughly Broadview to Woodbine, O'Connor to the lake) -- now over 100 identified!
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Riverdale/Leslieville/Pocket/Danforth LFLs - Google My Maps
Riverdale/Leslieville/Pocket/Danforth LFLs
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1q_gEtrowWLVlriLVgqE1yzUOOqxAvMiF&ll=43.67877255825604%2C-79.33842190436857&z=19
20 days ago
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2 months ago
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it. All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference. Tanks
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I couldnât even turn on the sound until the last strikeout.
3 months ago
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My dad died a month ago. Among his photos I found some heâd taken on the shoots of movies and TV heâd worked on as a sound recordist/mixer â including some nice ones of the late Graham Greene while filming Clearcut, the 1991 indigenous horror movie that was featured at that yearâs TIFF.
5 months ago
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How did I get this far in life without knowing about "corn sweat" and its contribution to stifling humidity?
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Corn sweat will intensify a heat wave this week
Corn sweat and a heat dome will bring dangerous heat and humidity to the central United States this week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/07/21/corn-sweat-humidity-heat-wave-forecast/
6 months ago
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The oven has been turned off.
#dlws
7 months ago
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Slightly regretting that I didnât pick up this 1979 album from my neighbourâs lawn when I had the chance.
9 months ago
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Saw a few movies at this space on Gerrard during its last revival as a cinema, including what ended up being a private viewing (me and spouse) of the great Turkish film Winter Sleep. Great to hear it's coming back to life as a music venue.
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This Toronto theatre has lain dormant for years. Hereâs why a young musician spent everything he had to revive it
Kinkade Davis plans to open the space, now called the Mercy on Gerrard, this spring.
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/this-toronto-theatre-has-lain-dormant-for-years-heres-why-a-young-musician-spent-everything/article_8f9b217a-010a-11f0-bc26-63448ac56bfe.html
10 months ago
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Thanks to
@patrickcain.bsky.social
for this great overview of the Don River naturalization project in Toronto Today - excited to learn some of the parkland will be open this summer:
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How a new waterfront park in Toronto was dug into existence
Inside the Don Mouth Naturalization Project â an engineering feat that re-routed a river and created a new shoreline park Torontonians can enjoy this summer
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/environment-climate/new-toronto-don-valley-east-waterfront-park-toronto-opens-summer-2025-10283478?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feb%2027,%202025%2004:45%20pm&utm_content=mc_to_tone
11 months ago
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For no apparent reason when I slipped on ear buds on the way out the door for a frigid run early this morning they were streaming Renaissance polyphony off Apple Music. I was about to switch to a podcast when I realized it was, in fact, exactly what I needed to start this February day.
11 months ago
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Canadian Paintings
about 1 year ago
Les Ăboulements, Charlevoix County A.Y. Jackson 1924
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Canadian Paintings
about 1 year ago
Breakfast with Marmalade Joseph Plaskett 1976
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Canadian Paintings
about 1 year ago
North Shore, St Lawrence Dr. Maurice Hall Haycock 1947
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My annual photo of books I read over the past year *and still have a copy of in my house*: a really odd stack this year of an early 20th C travelogue of Canada, War and Peace, Natalia Ginzburg, and a fascinating history of East Germany. I read a lot more fiction, too, not pictured!
about 1 year ago
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@dylanreid.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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SelineSigil
about 1 year ago
"Ghost Apples" in the Fruit Ridge area of Kent County, Michigan - An unusual phenomenon when freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall, the apple turns mushy and eventually slips out, leaving the icy shell still hanging on the tree. âď¸đPhotos by Andrew Sietsema đ¤
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Afternoon tea in the lobby of the Royal York hotel yesterday: more women, girls, glitter and sequins than I have ever seen, PLUS hockey fans on their way to the game, AND a huge number of men in kilts and women in gowns on their way to the St Andrewâs ball above = a fun Toronto evening.
about 1 year ago
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I have a short story out -- during Short Story Month, apparently, and just as everyone is thinking about short stories because of the loss of short story queen, Alice Munro. It's about being Canadian, cross-border travel, Latin vocab, and friendship:
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Fiction by Molly McCarron â Saranac Review
https://saranacreview.org/issue19/fiction-by-molly-mccarron
over 1 year ago
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What links bubble era Tokyo, one of the best comedy scenes in this century, and one of my favourite songs, in my latest Song of the Day (or week or month), which I should rebrand as The Fortnightly Song:
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Listen to the girl
For relaxing times
https://mollymccarron.substack.com/p/listen-to-the-girl?r=5o1c3
over 1 year ago
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So proud of the
@spacing.bsky.social
gang, and especially of
@dylanreid.bsky.social
for his work as executive editor of this issue! A really great anniversary package that speaks to Torontoâs recent past, the present, and the future, and captures the best of the magazine.
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over 1 year ago
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Liked this melancholy homecoming story by Rachel Sargent (only on the other place) in Gulf Coast (ditto) about how small events change everything:
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What Comes After
I was twenty-seven when I saw him again, at a birthday party for my sister that uncomfortably straddled the line between our broke college years and some recently adopted bourgeois values. There were ...
https://gulfcoastmag.org/online/36.2-winter/spring-2024/what-comes-after/
almost 2 years ago
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"I start with an emotion and then I try to find out what story can kind of accomodate that emotion" - from this great interview with Ling Ma.
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almost 2 years ago
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In which I am discombobulated by the appearance of real spring in March, and write about a seasonally-appropriate jazz singer.
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Spring awakening
The singer with a name out of a Roald Dahl novel
https://open.substack.com/pub/mollymccarron/p/spring-awakening?r=5o1c3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
almost 2 years ago
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While I wait for the snow to melt off the garden againâŚ
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almost 2 years ago
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Finally, my years of semi-successful gardening have made it into something I've written! Grateful to
@emergejournal.bsky.social
for publishing this piece:
emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu...
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Current Issue | Issue 29
Emerge Literary Journal: 2024  Editor's Note Some say the new year is a fresh start â a chance to look back and reflect on our past and a time to plan for our future. Walking into 2024 feels a bi...
https://emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issue-issue-29/
almost 2 years ago
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Delighted to see one of my favourite podcasts,
@backlisted.bsky.social
, taking on The Stone Angel in their customary humorous, curious way. I was a latecomer to this book and had no idea it was so funny and cutting (as well as sad -- it has everything going on). A great discussion.
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about 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
Canada has produced plenty of winter songs, but surprisingly not many about freezing cold temperatures as such.
@mccmolly.bsky.social
writes about a delightful one, though, not surprisingly from Montreal.
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#IlFaitFroid
#songs
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Il fait froid
Quelle jouissance!
https://mollymccarron.substack.com/p/il-fait-froid
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My stack of 2023 reads represents books I read over the last year *that are still in the house* - which, absent library books and anything Iâve shared onwards (Iâm an active donor to neighbourhood library boxes), makes it a pretty random pile!
about 2 years ago
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Christmas tree at my father-in-lawâs retirement residence, festooned with empty Moderna vials.
about 2 years ago
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The new issue of the /temz/ review is out, with a powerhouse prose selection including a great little flash, "Dear Reader", from
@carolinehung.bsky.social
, and "Tinted Windows", a fantastic fiction debut from Yasmeen Mohssenzadh:
www.thetemzreview.com/issue-25.html
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Issue 25
Eric Abalajon "values are values: ten iterations"
https://www.thetemzreview.com/issue-25.html
about 2 years ago
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Periodic update to my map of little free libraries in east Toronto - roughly Broadview to Woodbine, O'Connor to the lake. A few additions since the summer. Other updates welcome!
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Riverdale/Leslieville/Pocket/Danforth LFLs - Google My Maps
Riverdale/Leslieville/Pocket/Danforth LFLs
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about 2 years ago
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"Writing a story about a sentient refrigerator can be fun, and a story like that might be fun to read, but if fun is the only goal, youâd be better off chugging a beer and jumping into a pool with your clothes on. No book can compete with that."
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One Question Interview: Nathan Whitlock
Nathan Whitlock is the author of the novels A Week of This and Congratulations On Everything. Nathanâs writing has appeared in places such as the New York Review of Books, the Walrus, Chatelaine, Tďż˝...
https://boydwords.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/one-question-interview-nathan-whitlock/
about 2 years ago
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Lovely essay from Electric Lit's The Commuter on, among other things, the loneliness of grieving for a friend:
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You Can't Unsubscribe From Grief - Electric Literature
"Replying All on the Death Announcement Email," creative nonfiction by Jenessa Abrams
https://electricliterature.com/replying-all-on-the-death-announcement-email-by-jenessa-abrams/?mc_cid=3c8e536624&mc_eid=20cbff38eb
about 2 years ago
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From the must-eat list at a local âsugar water cafeâ, some BrontĂŤ-inspired snacks.
about 2 years ago
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Every year I look forward to the Moroccan clementines showing up in the grocery store in darkest November. Great story here about why eastern Canada eats clementines while to the west it's mandarins, among other things.
www.thestar.com/business/her...
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Hereâs how to find the perfect box of clementines this season. Experts say itâs an art â and m...
Squeeze, stare and smell all you want, itâs not going to help you pick the best box. The real trick, experts say, doesnât involve your senses at all.
https://www.thestar.com/business/here-s-how-to-find-the-perfect-box-of-clementines-this-season-experts-say-it/article_7ef41a6c-20eb-5188-9231-b4f573c53ac8.html
about 2 years ago
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Is snow-hail a thing? Is thatâs whatâs falling right now??
about 2 years ago
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Really interesting food shortage story, especially for any lovers of South Indian food like dosas.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Non-basmati white rice availability in Canada has dwindled, causing a surge in prices
Idli and pongal are two rice varieties Canadians may have trouble finding, or will end up paying extra for, as a result of Indiaâs export ban due to crop damage in July
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-rice-shortage-india-export-ban/
about 2 years ago
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Dark at 4:30 and pounding with rain. The essence of November.
about 2 years ago
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Fave recent Toronto little free library find was this 1958 British edition of Nadine Gordimer short stories, which someone bought at a Cape Town bookstore and left a ripped-out a magazine ad for 1950 Studebaker inside. (Not sure how the timing worksâŚ) And really enjoyed the book.
about 2 years ago
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It's dark, it's cold, but I'm Feeling Good while listening to melancholy music this November:
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Elliott Smith season
Music to hibernate by
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about 2 years ago
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Last group of trick-or-treaters included a respirator and rain gear wearing self-identifying âbathroom explorerâ
about 2 years ago
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How easy it is to transform an otherwise unremarkable part of a major arterial into a nice place to walk with some good trees.
about 2 years ago
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over 2 years ago
I love this Radiohead song
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Keeping the light in these dark days.
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over 2 years ago
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Was glad to spend an hour or two at the 38K mark of the Toronto Waterfront marathon today cheering on runners. Friendly cheers helped me hugely in my one and only marathon (especially that last stretch) and crowd support is limited in this city!
over 2 years ago
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Sad news. I hope he recovers. Going strong since the 80s, consistently anti-war, always wrestling with Russiaâs brutal nature (historical and present) â and writer of many great songs.
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over 2 years ago
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New nominee for favourite fall tree, early edition: the honey locust. Not strictly local, but pretty close (?) â and glorious just now.
over 2 years ago
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You know thereâs a word for that.
over 2 years ago
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The Master Plan at Crowâs Theatre lived up to the hype - a play about a failed development project that is also a portrait of Toronto. Just extended so more shows available.
over 2 years ago
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