Sean Michaels

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That, or a team-up by book review outlets into a larger Voltron: one subscription that provides access to several outlets with separate editorial vision/subject expertise/geographic focus.

The government here has a program that props up (ie pays journalists for) local news @ newspapers:

www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...

I'd like to see a fund (government, private, whatever) that media outlets can draw from to pay writers for certain kinds of book coverage.

Canadian book reviews are in crisis though, definitely worse-off than the US was, pre-Post layoffs. Most literary novels published by the top indie presses receive ~ zero reviews.

I've tried to agitate through the 🇨🇦 Writers' Union but most seem to think "BookTok" can pick up the slack.

no reviews though, so i guess irrelevant here!

PRH Canada runs @hazlitt.bsky.social , interestingly, and has maintained it for years (albeit on a shoestring):
hazlitt.net

thursday!

check out Armlock, my favourite contemporary scratchers of pinbacklike itch

nooo!!!

Every so often I do this thing called Writers' Room, where writers of Montreal are invited to get together in one room. The next one is on February 5. Friends and mutuals, it would be great to see you.

Live to See the Day by Mark Medley: 9780771062261 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An imaginative study of human nature, Live to See the Day is a globe-trotting exploration of what drives certain people to pursue a dream beyond all logic, reason, or reward.      Why do...

My book Live to See the Day is out today. I hope you read it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645965...

not just american

"There is no really close relative to it in all our prose literature." - anthony burgess

really?! it's the name of a trilogy; really i think the first one, Titus Groan, is the best. bizarre postwar gothic that blends surreal strangeness with character drama and overall a sense of a VAST ENDLESS EDIFICE—with great language and char names, too. the synopsis of Brothel reminded me of it!

crazy and beautiful-sounding—is it Anakana's gormenghast??? only time will tell!

thank you!

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

thank you! enjoy!

Thank you so much for this, Lynwood! i wonder what was happening in december 2012...

illustration of a night-blowing cereus flower and the words SAID THE GRAMOPHONE BEST SONGS OF 2025.

it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much.

www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...

thank you!!

popsheep rip!!!!!! (thank you!)

thanks for the note, and happy to have become a tradition!

where are yours?!

oops!

illustration of a night-blowing cereus flower and the words SAID THE GRAMOPHONE BEST SONGS OF 2025.

it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much.

www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...

they're loathed right now by regular quebecers: www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/11/12/s...

happy to be reading tonight from Zsuzsi Gartner's BEST CANADIAN SHORT STORIES at De Stiil—celebrating works by Kaitlin Reuther, DF McCourt, Grant Buday & others alongside Eliza Robertson, Cat Leroux, Neil Smith, Paige Cooper etc!

great book!