Magpie Books

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03.07.2025 01:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stack of books found at Magpie Books. Titles include: Heaven looks like us by George Abraham The Unicorn woman by Gayl Jones Nights too short to dance by Marie-Claire Blais Napalm in the heart by Pol Gausch The pure and the impure by Colette Mornings without Mii by Mayumi Inaba We are green and trembling by Gabriela Cameron Camara Reservoir bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda We speak through the mountain by Premee Mohamed The annual migration of clouds by Premee Mohamed

Stopped by a bookstore I hadn’t visited before and found lots of great books @magpiebooks.bsky.social

23.06.2025 12:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

You’re the best!!!!!!!!

08.06.2025 17:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A stylized “cigar case” box with art by Thi Bui, containing McSweeney’s 78. Features a buncha folks smoking in a dining room.

Opening the box: an ornate “menu” in red, black and gold, serving as a table of contents

The three sections of McSweeney’s 78 - the full Make Believers book, and the two companion booklets

The good folks at @magpiebooks.bsky.social always look out for me. Today, I picked up the newest @mcsweeneys.net - a beautiful box set. “Ten writers of the Vietnamese diaspora write from the eclectic hodgepodge that is their shared imagination of what it means to be ‘Vietnamese.’”

06.06.2025 03:17 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

I was so drunk on being in a real bookstore that I got a tiny bit carried away @magpiebooks.bsky.social today.

03.04.2025 22:37 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker

19.03.2025 16:25 — 👍 580    🔁 190    💬 27    📌 45

We host naloxone training every month in #edmonton and our next one is on March 26th at 7:00PM. Good for new people and anyone looking for a refresh. Liberatory and solidarity focused 💜 magpiebooks.ca/events/22219...

13.03.2025 16:25 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Still figuring out this new platform but if you’re looking for a book club in #edmonton to attend, consider ours 🤓 We’re meeting March 13 and reading My Work by Olga Ravn (transl. Sophie Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell)! magpiebooks.ca/events/18276...

06.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A red poster (a screenprint depicting prone bodies?) with the book's title, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal), with photos of the two presenters

"Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task?" A virtual book talk with Mohammed El-Kurd and Robin D.G. Kelley on Feb 11 @ 7:30pm ET www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

21.01.2025 18:09 — 👍 61    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 0

hi! hello! new fun books this week 😏😏😏

29.01.2025 18:15 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi 👋👋

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