Very happy with first review! At B.C. Review.https://thebcreview.ca/2026/05/01/2914-dueck-greco/big

Release day! #LikeaRiverDividestheEarth #CanLit

It's here! Honestly, I am SO HAPPY to have these 5 stories together and in the world. Stories about what divides--internally or on account of circumstances--and the quest to survive and be whole. If there's an undercurrent of grief, there's also the joy of being human and alive.

We're getting ready to celebrate our lovely authors Dora Dueck and Carmen Lansdowne on BC Book Day April 21!

Some favourite reads so far this year:

it's spring so we made a "Celebrate CMU Press" video just because #booksky

If, like me, you find driving at night increasingly uncomfortable and dangerous due to nuclear-bright headlights, both in new vehicles, and aftermarket, then take the time to fill out this Transport Canada survey. It asks for no personal information other than age, and whether you are a CA citizen.

The world's a mess, but it's still a good time to read. Coming in May...

It's been a long time coming. Canadian independent bookstores have banded together to create an online book buying source so you can avoid the behemoth in the room. (Here are the titles published by CMU Press, which I run.) Spread the word #booksky! www.booksellers.ca/publisher/cmu-press-18021

excellent explainer on current situation in Cuba www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

5 of 5 stars to All That Belongs by Dora Dueck www.goodreads.com/book/show/50...

Friday Reads: Blissing out on some stellar Sudanese, Western Canadian, and WWII-era British fiction youtu.be/Ju3Hh510EU8.

Reward yourself with Dora Dueck's beautiful personal essays & memoir: RETURN STROKE. "The kind of writing that invites a reader to slow down, to savour the beauty while pondering the intersections of history and poetry"—Magdalene Redekop "A masterful work of personal history"— Melanie Springer Mock

COVER reveal! Arriving in the world May 1 with Freehand Books.

Listening to VP Vance right now, and oh my, he's no less scary than the president; maybe even more so.

Last blog post of the year. doradueck.com/2025/12/27/d...

It's manuscript and page proof recycling day here. This was our biggest project in 2025, more than two years (and more piles of paper high) in the making. So buy it please! THE resource for analysis of Mennonite literature in North America: IN SEARCH OF A MENNONITE IMAGINATION, ed. Robert Zacharias.

We love this reader review . . . and encourage you to ask for Dora's lovely book of personal essays & memoir, Return Stroke, at your local independent bookseller! #booksky

Friends, we are a tiny university press doing our work without the public funding that most other publishers get. Please support us by buying our excellent books or, if you can, with a donation. Choose "OTHER" & indicate "FOR CMU PRESS" in the “Note about my donation” section here: www.cmu.ca/give

AND Thank You. #booksky

October blog post. doradueck.com/2025/10/29/o...

Reading the Booker shortlist. Two down, four to go! Will I make it by November 10? Probably not, but fun to try!

Every bedside table needs at least one book of poetry on it for a poem or two before bed. This is a good one.

Tuning into CNN for a few minutes, re the Trump-Putin news conference, and hear Jake Tapper seeming to promote necessity of giving Ukrainian land to Russia and so on, and I can't watch further. Why is he pushing Trump & Putin talking points? Switch to MSNBC.

I don't understand the U.S. president's ongoing animus toward Canada. No matter every attempt to address his complaints, it continues. Didn't the ambassador recently say we would have a great friendship again? I sincerely want to know: what underlies his unrelenting hostility? Anyone know?

Now available: IN SEARCH OF A MENNONITE IMAGINATION -- a must-have resource for every school, university, and public library, for scholars of Mennonite literature and culture, and frankly for anyone and everyone with an interest in Mennonite writers in North America. www.cmu.ca/cmu-press

Attended a Mennonite/s Writing conference this weekend. doradueck.com/2025/06/18/t...

Pleased to be on this list of "impressive Mennonite books".

Enjoying the "pomp and circumstance" of the King and Queen's visit to Canada, the Speech from the Throne, etc. Proud of our new prime minister too.

Thinking about arches I like arches. I've been thinking about them--their sense of invitation and transition. The way they frame what's ahead. I don't mean famous arches like L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris or the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. but simple arches I've encountered. This first one is created…

This, a short novel in which Nobelist Jon Fosse, in his inimitable style, imagines the birth of child Johannes and the death of old man Johannes. I heard someone who said he wasn't religious call it "holy." Yes. Everything of a life gathers here, the heavy and the light, and it provokes me to awe.

No Strings by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

A woman leaves her current life to live in a convent. A plague of mice happens, the bones of a disappeared nun are returned, an unlikely person from her past arrives. Calamities of various kinds, yes, but a profound quietness in this novel. I liked it a lot. (Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker.)

I've got the TV on to hear Carney in the meeting with Trump and latter is going on and on and on and on and it's just exhausting.

Are you coming to The Conference??

This 💪🏻🍁⤵️ #MarkCarney #LeadersDebate #Canada Mr. Poilievre you voted against the gun policy…..You can’t be tough on crime unless you are tough on guns.

A ritual procession down 56th A good funeral, poet/undertaker Thomas Lynch says, gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. When my husband Helmut died four years ago in the middle of the Covid pandemic, the usual mourning rituals had to be significantly modified.…

Important conversation with Jason Stanley, expert on fascism, who's "fleeing" to the University of Toronto, at CBC's Front Burner. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

March notes Besides resolving to appear here monthly in 2025, I had a second New Year's resolution: to read Moby-Dick. Which I have just accomplished, thus plugging one of many holes in my education. It wasn't exactly a page-turner (not to mention there are a lot of pages to turn) so I read it…

I warmly recommend the "What Matters Most" podcasts; they keep me informed and inspired in a big theological tent; I'm only half through this one (will finish on tomorrow's walk) and finding it interesting and wonderful, as are so many of them.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) by Timothy Snyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

@marshalederman.bsky.social Thank you for your column in the G & M today about Sunday's Cross Country Checkup. Agree entirely.

Powerful story of trying to persuade someone with conspiracy-fuelled views to change his mind at This American Life. www.thisamericanlife.org/854/ten-thin...

Please, President Zelensky, don't sign away your minerals!

The Moleskine phenomenon, ship & travel journals, commonplace books, autograph books, notable & ordinary diaries, expressive writing, recipe notebooks, bullet-journalling, ICU diaries, notebooks of artists & writers & other thinkers. All very interesting!

Living in this moment This year, I've resolved to show up here at least once a month, say that I'm still alive, what's on my mind and all that. I am alive, reasonably so thanks, and what's much on my mind is this moment. "This moment" is often used to particularly position ourselves -- right now…