We are quiet binge reading over on the Haystack for the next few hours open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Who do you have in the finals? 🏀

A cinematic reading from my new novel Library of Brothel www.instagram.com/reel/DYdjXiU... Note: the Roland Barthes quote at the start of the novel is from A Lovers Discourse

Does anybody know anybody who has actually bought tickets to any of 7 World Cup football games happening here?

"A fine rain now made her still more dismal; " VW The Voyage Out I like specificity in my literary weather.

To recover from the Pistons being hoofed out, we are binge reading quietly over on the Haystack. Reading will never give you the boot. Here's the link open.substack.com/live-stream/...

DETROIT ARE WINNING. We do not accept any other outcome.

Are Detroit winning?

I've been thinking a lot about the death of friendship lately. "Somewhere between “Let’s catch up soon” and “Sorry, life has been hectic”, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life." timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-...

Terrible! Spent many happy visits during my WT residency in Dawson City.

When I am the Patron Saint of Binge reading & basketball surrealism and my kneecap or my hand is a relic in some nice velvet box in a cathedral - DO NOT THINK OF BUSTING ME OUT OF IT or I will come back and smack you around the kisser and put bugs into your tea for life.

"Once it is returned, Archbishop Pribyl said, the church plans to protect the skull with bulletproof glass and a dedicated alarm." JFC you can't even get to be a Saint and relic in peace in 2026. Some rando knows what's better for you.

SHE WAS PATRON SAINT OF DIFFICULT MARRIAGES & this chump stole her relic! Talk abt righteous wrong-headedness. Possibly the ultimate act of mansplaining. He took her head bc he doesn't agree w her bein displayed in the church. DUDE, AS A SAINT SHE GETS TO BE A RELIC www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/w...

“It’s silly,” Lizzie said, “not to be able to look at a new thing because it’s new. That’s the way you grow old.” “It’s sillier,” Harriett said, “to be always running after new things because you think that’s the way to look young. I’ve no wish to appear younger than I am” May Sinclair Harriet Frean

I have my doubts about this May Sinclair novel, but there's already a mention of an organ, presumably a pipe organ, so I go on. We are quiet reading on the Haystack for another 3 hours or so open.substack.com/live-stream/...

We are quiet reading May Sinclair or whatever you are having yourself over on the Haystack Come read with us open.substack.com/live-stream/...

I am surprised he’s not busy, you know, running the country. Scammers do note that Mr Carney would not be getting a free copy of my novel, as he can well afford to buy it. At least claim you have court-side tickets for me. Or that you grow giant vegetables.

Some passages from Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/05/some...

I have absolutely no idea what this is, but I am texting it to my maths friend for support as I read it. I am becoming a superfan of the Public Domain Review. (I hope they will be more able for my enthusiasm than the poor Pipe Organists are)

Do people realize how easy it is for writers to lose their courage? You'll also have to take some risks in your reading and the books you buy, if we are to make things better.

Hay subtitles if you arrange the settings. youtu.be/e9iQx8m1JAc?...

Wolves in trouble here.. Spurs going to sort this.

Leonora Carrington. 1992 documentary based around a visit to the artist... youtu.be/q4aooKLEHQg?...

We are hating on rowing and Skibbereen now? I can’t even swim and I wouldn’t be hating on those two. Paddling is another matter. I am anti paddles.

"It was to be one of those mortal combats between man’s will and woman’s wit."

We are quiet binge reading here open.substack.com/live-stream/...

We will be quiet binge reading on the Haystack from 5.15-10.15pm today PT bingereading.substack.com

My favourite part of publishing a novel is when you get to talk to people about it and you learn from intelligent & close readings of the work exactly what you've been upto It's really a remarkable form of completion or arrival maybe. A bit like a flame lighting a gas bbq or someone opening a door

LIGHTNING. THUNDER. Good Lord Is it the end of the world? We never get thunder and lighting here.

When are we going to have the list of 144 books where we'd like the trees back? I hope the Guardian contact me to participate.

"best novels of all time" is a highly dubious metric. We don't know yet what's coming or what has been long ignored or forgotten. Books give way to books and back to books; they do not fight each other in the octagon or biff each other in the back alley. It's a continuum.

Brandon Clarke has passed away at 29 years old. The Vancouver native played seven seasons in the NBA with the Memphis Grizzlies.

Even once intelligent writers are salivating and thirsting over the hand off of literature to celebrities & popstars & actors talking about their feelings. This is going to bite you in the arse. This isn’t salvation. This is self-centric branding for individuals. Books give way to books not pouting

Well this was a night of plunges

“They are getting swept because they are playing Marcus Smart and not Bronnie” Bronnie’s number 1 fan who is cooking Minestrone soup

If I had a podcast I might call it Gen X enthusiasm.

In protest at Detroit losing I am MUTING the Lakers. I can’t turn it off because I am on Bronnie watch for his biggest fan… my son.

Apparently they have another plan here. I must away

Trust the Spine: On the Pleasure and Riches of NYRB Books. It is the joy of my life to be part of the NYRB stable and catalogue and sit on the bookshop shelves beside so many great writers. Plus the staff are fantastic to work with. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social mookse.substack.com/p/episode-13...

Ready for Detroit to win this.

Wemby's armpit is at neck level and in some cases belly level to half the league. He's a good foot to a foot and a half taller than most. If he lifts a shoulder he could send someone spinning off to Jupiter.

Look Western Front have made a fabulous invite to my June 13th Vancouver launch. Reserve your spot! It's free. Everyone is welcome. Books will for sale & signed! So thrilled to launch the novel in this incredible building and ARTIST RUN CENTRE @pfbvan.bsky.social westernfront.ca/events/libra...

Come follow me on TikTok (makes the sign of the cross and defenestrates out the nearest window) www.tiktok.com/@anakanascho...

"Foreign actors exploiting Alberta separatist debate to stoke discord, researchers say" www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

"He had what Violet called an awful appetite. Which meant that joint and a loaf went twice as fast as Violet had calculated; so that she found herself driven to pan bread and tinned meat in self-defense" The Combined Maze, May Sinclair. (1922)

We are binge reading quietly for the next 5 hours over on the Haystack. You know you want to put down your phone, read and improve your brain. The CCTV is live. Come join and read quietly for eternal life open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Shuffalo is a bit like ice cream

This Lakers is not going well for them. But redemption is always possible in this sport, so I will catch the last quarter.

My TPL launch for Library of Brothel with @michelledean.bsky.social is in 2 weeks! May 28th 7pm Sign up for a free ticket here tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/69... VANCOUVER launch is Sat June 13th, 3pm at Western Front Support the proletariat. Come open the library & stick 2 fingers up at AI