Celebrate The Fiddlehead’s newest issue with a virtual launch! Join us on Zoom for an evening of readings with Shelley Pacholok, winner of the 2025 Creative Nonfiction contest, and issue 305 contributors, A-E Best and Will Richter! Nov. 19, 7pm AST Email [email protected] for the Zoom link!

After a furious outcry, the Ontario government reversed course on the most controversial part of Bill 60. But the policy makes six other changes to landlord-tenant law that overwhelmingly benefit landlords, @emmapaling.bsky.social reports. www.thegrindmag.ca/despite-reve...

■■■BREAKING NEWS■■■ HOBTOWN 3 THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is getting launched in HALIFAX, featuring: •ALEX •KRIS •COPIES OF THE NEW HOBTOWN All are encouraged to attend (unless barred from Bearly's). MARK YOUR CALENDARS, NOV 25

New fiction up on Hazlitt It’s about travelling sideshow mummies, decades long feuds, weird toy conventions, and the haunted 79 year history of an American pop culture icon told by the dead Canadian teenager who inadvertently inspired everything. hazlitt.net/longreads/du...

Steven Millhauser

It’s been a strange month in Nepal. (Stranger than usual). I don’t feel like I have any thoughts to share, but I do have some feelings. I’ll see if I can post pictures that capture those feelings.

Some news: My screenplay adapted from Kate Kruimink's historical novel A Treacherous Country has won the top prize at the Byron Bay Film Festival in Australia. I'm gobsmacked. www.filmink.com.au/public-notic...

Seascape by Gerhard Richter, 1998 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137521

101. Duke Alvarez: American Mummy Outlaw; or, The Undead Years of Phillipe LaFontaine - Johnathan Fahey

I know the email is invalid. I just started typing it. Why don't you give me a second before you start making accusations.

Hobtown Fans be cracking our best codes left and right this is a crisis and humilating

Bound book day for THE INSIDER! And what a beautiful object the fine people at Penguin Press have produced. I could not be happier with it, or with them. Pub date is November 4th -- oh boy, or maybe shudder.

Thrilled to be hosting director Charlie Kaufman and writer Eva H.D. for a screening of their new short film How To Shoot A Ghost with a Q&A after with Canisia Lubrin and musical performances from Corin Raymond and Emily Steinwall. PWYC ticket below! www.westendphoenix.com/events/how-t...

Reminder to artists: The creature who comes to you asking for a partnership with nothing on offer except "connections" is a parasite. They want something very precious, and they want it for nothing. Never, ever let them in.

🚨🎃HALLOWEEN DEAL ALERT🎃🚨 This ghost story is available for FREE online but for a ONE TIME ONLY $2 fee I can send you the original UNCENSORED bootleg Word doc. w/ editor notes!!! DMs are OPEN!!!! 💰📚ORDER NOW! 📚💰

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Here’s Kaleb Horton on Charles Portis. slate.com/culture/2020...

Instead of HATING AND KILLING the author of the other totally sick ONI Press surrealist graphic novel about flying saucers coming out this year, the two of us chose friendship and solidarity. Here's my interview with ADAM SZYM about his phenomenal book Little Visitor & Other Abductions!

Listen to our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Michael LaPointe about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, finding liberation in failure, and so much more. tinyurl.com/4urvw3mc

Ordering it into your local comic shop is the most helpful, because it brings the book to the people who love comics and carefully curate collections for their customers. A local shop that recommends us to the discerning reader means more to us than just about anything else!

I don't think AI will either become a totally revolutionary tech or be a nothing tulip/NFT bubble. I think it will be like social media: something that everyone knows is mostly bad and stupid but gets addicted to as it degrades our quality of life, politics, and culture in a million small ways.

■■!!H O B T O W N A L E R T!!■■ A sampling of HOBTOWN 3 PAGES ARE HERE IN FANGORIA PLEASE CHECK IT OUT

The stomach acid stuff is something I would’ve thought of when I was 13 (again, complimentary)

Eden Mills has now pulled the AI workshop. I’m still not attending the festival this year as a participant or otherwise, but glad to see they listened to the feedback

This issue of Absolute Batman was absolutely disgusting and insane (complimentary)

“Israel fears the people who tell the world about what is happening in Gaza — the war, the genocide, the famine. Anas made it a mission to tell these stories, our stories, all over the world. And people listened,” a pseudonymous Palestinian journalist who lives in the US writes for @theintercept.com

For those who are interested, here’s a recording of our talk from last week on how to promote Nepal’s literature globally. I learned some new things! You might too. (The discussion is in the Nepali language). youtube.com/watch?v=eyHb...

In absurd new short fiction from Nick Foretek, a man ideates on his own demise in every spare moment, but then one day is thrown a lifeline: Doctor Hurlovst has a spare ticket to the Mets.

New fiction from Johnathan Fahey: hazlitt.net/longreads/du...

Collab between Marc Fawcett-Atkinson and @joanbaxter.bsky.social. While the province of Nova Scotia has closed the woods to people, the same is not true for forestry operators, who have been granted special exemptions from the wildfire restrictions.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

It appears this new story is currently free. Up to you whether it works fine.

It's still summer, right? I've just gotten my beach reads lined up. #charlesportis #mavisgallant #readmoremavis #booksky

New fiction from @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social: hazlitt.net/longreads/wh...

I’ve got my first new fiction in, uh, about 13 years in this one. Ch-ch-check it out

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New fiction on the site today by Lynne Kutsukake: hazlitt.net/longreads/ea...

I tried to wrestle with the enormous, too-brief life of poet Frank Stanford and James McWilliams' monumental new biography for the @arktimes.bsky.social. (My review opens with a surprise Portis appearance.) arktimes.com/rock-candy/2...

@miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a lively, enlightening conversation with Naben Ruthnum. Listen! @craftworkpod.bsky.social @undertow.bsky.social tinyurl.com/54cvzpu4

The Big Chill. amazing that you used to be able to make movies about being an adult.

Can anyone use a ticket for the 70mm Boogie Nights screening tonight at Lightbox? I am no longer able to attend.

A thousand amens. If you don’t understand this, you don’t understand activism.

Two captive orcas are currently stuck at a Marineland in France after it closed this year. Can the world's first marine sanctuary for whales, proposed in Nova Scotia, be their new home? Enter complication, politics, misinformation, greed. @jesstaylorprice.bsky.social‬ thewalrus.ca/marineland-o...

AI is an apocalypse. It ruins writing. It ruins reading. It erodes cognitive ability. It steals from artists. It destroys the planet. It's a serpent eating its own tail, and it's taking literacy and intelligence and culture and thought and art and humanity and the entire future with it.

New fiction up on Hazlitt It’s about travelling sideshow mummies, decades long feuds, weird toy conventions, and the haunted 79 year history of an American pop culture icon told by the dead Canadian teenager who inadvertently inspired everything. hazlitt.net/longreads/du...