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Rebirth for this little book. From Open Road Integrated Media, eBook on July 14th, POD Oct 20th. Not used to the new coverā¦
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Stephen Lewis. Oh, man.
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20 days ago
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March 31 Trans Day of Visibility
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I stand by my assertion that Sinners on Broadway would do looooooong-run numbers. A fixture, a steady on the street, like Book of Mormon, Hamilton, Chicago
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Congrats, Loghan and Billy-Ray ā¤ļøhttps://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2026-contenders-9.7040200
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Meet the Canada Reads 2026 contenders | CBC Books
The debates take place April 13 to 16 live at 10 a.m. ET.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2026-contenders-9.7040200
about 1 month ago
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congratulations, Annabel
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āHeated Rivalryā Creator Jacob Tierney Sets Netflix Drama About Alexander the Great and Aristotle With Jason Bateman as EP
Netflix has given a series order to 'Alexander,' a drama series from 'Heated Rivalry' creator Jacob Tierney about Alexander the Great.
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/heated-rivalry-netflix-alexander-the-great-1236680375/
about 2 months ago
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Frederick Wiseman: āā¦it comes out in the fiddle.ā
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Film at Lincoln Center | Watch Frederick Wiseman discuss (and work on) his editing process in this insightful clip from Peter Wintonick's 1999 documentary CINĆMA... | Instagram
523 likes, 9 comments - filmlinc on February 13, 2025: "Watch Frederick Wiseman discuss (and work on) his editing process in this insightful clip from Peter Wintonick's 1999 documentary CINĆMA...
https://www.instagram.com/filmlinc/reel/DGBdYXjKJBw/
2 months ago
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Ezra Klein, NY Times quotes Anand Giridharadas:
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Prime time, eh?
3 months ago
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Michael Bazzett
3 months ago
Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon. āFranz Kafkaās diary, August 2, 1914 Feeling this in Mpls: Teaching poems to H.S. students in the afternoon, delivering food to housebound immigrants in the evening, then coming home to watch āThe Officeā before bedtime. Surreal.
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Rob Taylor
3 months ago
šµBoy-cott Save-Onšµ *Clap clap clapclapclap*
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B.C. billionaire Jim Pattison's Virginia warehouse could become ICE facility | CBC News
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is in talks to buy a Virginia warehouse owned by British Columbia billionaire Jim Pattison and plans to turn it into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC...
https://cbc.ca/news/business/ice-warehouse-jim-pattison-9.7061994
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āA different philosophy of thingsā: how Solvej Balle got ahead of Groundhog Dayās time
Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International Booker
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/29/how-can-one-day-be-so-voluminous-the-danish-author-who-has-written-her-own-version-of-groundhog-day
3 months ago
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Lynn Coady
4 months ago
A big budget is great but on its own will never produce anything near the entertainment value of a strong creative vision left the fuck alone
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Lit Hub
3 months ago
āi want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...ā A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Hereās that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] sā¦
https://lithub.com/renee-nicole-good-murdered-by-ice-was-a-prize-winning-poet-heres-that-poem/
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4 months ago
"Two Rabbits with a Sled' (1894) illustration by celebrated English author Beatrix Potter
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Rob Taylor
4 months ago
In which I talk a little about my favourite book of the year,
@jobitek.bsky.social
's "We, the Kindling." Thank you to
@thenewquarterly.bsky.social
for the opportunity:
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What is Rob Taylor Reading? - The New Quarterly Digital Edition
Rob Taylor talks about his favourite book of 2025 and why it made such an impact. Read More!
https://tnq.ca/what-is-rob-taylor-reading/
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Want to write a half-hour TV series titled Therapy Dog Hotel and then go live in it š¶
5 months ago
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C. Robert Cargill
5 months ago
PLUR1BUS is something we haven't seen in some time on TV: dangerous science fiction. A real think piece. Takes the question played around with in Asmov's GREEN PATCHES, ANNIHILATION, and even SEA OF RUST, to its most interesting conclusion: What if individualism is the biggest threat to world peace?
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Paul Bae
6 months ago
This is awesome!!!
deadline.com/2025/10/park...
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Vancouverās Historic Park Theatre To Reopen With New Owners & High-Profile Financial Investors Including Sean Baker, Finn Wolfhard, Osgood Perkins & Mike Flanagan
Sean Baker, Finn Wolfhard, Osgood Perkins, and Mike Flanagan are among the financial backers.
https://deadline.com/2025/10/park-theatre-vancouver-sean-baker-finn-wolfhard-investors-1236598552/
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UBC Creative Writing
6 months ago
A monthly movie gathering at UBC curated by Nalo Hopkinson and Whitney French launches its first film āSlash/Backā on OCT 31 at 2 PM. š¬šæFree popcorn & drinks. All are welcome. š Friday, October 31 ā° 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm šBuchanan Tower, Room 225 š Free RSVP:
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Writers Guild of America West
7 months ago
WGA Statement on ABCās Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Michael Jay McClure
9 months ago
Andry & the 252 other men sent, without due process, to a torture prison in El Salvador feels like the epitomeāthe soul, moral center, & quintessenceāof this administration. I will never forget it or him. Also, if you donāt know the definition of grace, now you do.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Venezuelan makeup artist returns home, describes torture during El Salvador detention
A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death."
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/venezuelan-makeup-artist-returns-home-describes-torture-during-el-salvador-2025-07-23/
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Thank you to the corporations who support Vancouver Pride ā¤ļø
9 months ago
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Keith Maillard
10 months ago
The Toronto Star has a superb and complex article by Linda Svendsen reflecting on Alice Monro reacting to her fiction. It's fascinating reading but, alas, behind a pay wall. If you already subscribe to the Star, or don't mind subscribing, you might look it up.
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Thank you Andrea Robin Skinner and siblings for your candour.Thank you
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and the Star team for your guidance. And
@sydhegele.bsky.social
letās talk
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My fiction left Alice Munro shaking. Her daughterās reality did the same to me
I wasn't able to confront my abusers ā until now.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/my-fiction-left-alice-munro-shaking-her-daughters-reality-did-the-same-to-me/article_94bfdf7b-1b1f-4430-8203-cddb5c6e9dc8.html
10 months ago
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Thank you, Sydney and Andrea
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Andrea Skinnerās story helped me transform shame into solidarity
I have witnessed the power of storytelling to save lives
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/andrea-skinners-story-helped-me-transform-shame-into-solidarity/article_c3dc533d-4f1d-4d1e-999d-9b9474fe8fd2.html
10 months ago
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UBC Creative Writing
10 months ago
The UBC School of Creative Writing invites applications for a full-time Lecturer position in Writing for Screen, with a likely start date of September 1, 2025. Apply by July 15, 2025. Read the full job description:
creativewriting.ubc.ca/about/job-op...
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What is happening in Gaza is an injury to our collective conscience. We must be allowed to speak out
Silence means we can neither confront nor mourn what is going on.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/what-is-happening-in-gaza-is-an-injury-to-our-collective-conscience-we-must-be/article_a7f914c7-febe-4175-b343-28a19f50c3f9.html
10 months ago
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Andry Hernãndez Romero. Proof of life. Due process
www.advocate.com/news/hundred...
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Hundreds rallying at Supreme Court demand Trump return disappeared gay asylum-seeker Andry HernƔndez Romero
They rallied to bring the 31-year-old makeup artist back from CECOT in El Salvador.
https://www.advocate.com/news/hundreds-gather-scotus-andry-romero
10 months ago
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My Daughter Was at the Center of the Supreme Court Case on Trans Care. Our Hearts Are Broken.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
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Opinion | My Daughter Was at the Center of the Supreme Court Case on Trans Care. Our Hearts Are Broken.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/opinion/supreme-court-trans-care.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
10 months ago
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dustin
11 months ago
former Burnaby Now, New West Record and Tri-City News reporters announcing a campaign to launch a cooperatively owned and run publication covering the communities that have lost their local news publications
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Kyle Cheney
12 months ago
The lawsuit now includes a declaration from Andry Hernandez Romero's mother, who lives in Venezuela, who denies he was part of a gang.
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Kyle Cheney
12 months ago
JUST IN: The ACLU has added Andry Hernandez Romero, the openly gay barber/makeup artist, as lead plaintiff in its D.C.-based class action against the Alien Enemies Act. They say the US has "constructive custody" over those held in El Salvador.
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thank you for your column on Andry HernĆ”ndez Romero, the gay artist in El Salvador, with the āmomā tattoo on one wrist, ādadā on the other. Proof of life, please, now. Due process
12 months ago
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Michelle Goldberg
12 months ago
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Sewell Chan
about 1 year ago
Yesterday I was fired by Columbia University after eight months as executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. This was the first time in a 25-year career that I've ever been subjected to discipline in a job ā much less terminated from one.
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Liz Renzetti
about 1 year ago
Also of importance from
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"These are people who donāt usually talk to reporters and they probably hang up on pollsters. We may be in for a big surprise on April 28th." Is the Poilievre vote underrepresented in polls? Are we in for a repeat of Trump 2016? I hope not.
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Heeds up
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Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States | CBC News
The Canadian Association of University Teachers says it released updated travel advice today due to the "political landscape" created by the Trump administration and reports of some Canadians encounte...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/travel-warning-united-states-1.7510877
about 1 year ago
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Mar Hicks
about 1 year ago
āFrom April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicantsā
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US Applicant Week
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant-week
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March 31, lots of loveā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
about 1 year ago
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Leslie Hurtig
about 1 year ago
I owe so much to Alma Lee-A mentor, a friend, and a masterclass on how to live an impactful life full of love (and books). I will miss her dearly and remember her always. ā¤ļøš
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1963 had its good moments. Loved the Study
about 1 year ago
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Nancy Wingfield
about 1 year ago
It's not just Tim Snyder who has already left, but also his wife, Professor Marci Shore, the preeminent intellectual historian of her generation. Her geographic specialty is Eastern Europe.
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Ida Bae Wells
about 1 year ago
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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Alejandra Caraballo
about 1 year ago
Everyone responsible for this should get a Nuremberg style trial.
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Folks, welcome to the Donstitution of the United States of America
about 1 year ago
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Brava! Bestselling Canadian author Louise Penny cancels all U.S. engagements, citing trade war
about 1 year ago
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Cruelty. Is there any way they could come to Canada and at least live with their peer gender.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trans women transferred to menās prisons despite rulings against Trumpās order
Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: āIām punished for existingā
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/transgender-women-prison-trump
about 1 year ago
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