Joelle Kidd

For author @joellekidd.bsky.social, Christian pop was where the sacred met the commercial with a dash of the utterly mundane. “It was sugar-free candy: not bad for you, not particularly good either.” thewalrus.ca/the-agony-and-th...

We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social

“Christian pop is like the uncanny valley of music—almost, but unsettlingly not quite.”

Writer and editor @joellekidd.bsky.social reminisces on what it was like growing up in a world where pop culture and faith collided in strange ways: thewalrus.ca/the-agony-and-th...

Jesusland by @joellekidd.bsky.social is an August Spotify Editors' Pick! open.spotify.com/genre/0JQ5IM...

The First Thousand Trees by @premeemohamed.com, Jesusland by @joellekidd.bsky.social and Reconciling by Larry Grant are all included in Indigo's Most Anticipated Canadian books!

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My favourite ritual is getting coffee and reading @thegrindto.bsky.social cover to cover. Amazing issue! Everyone pick it up and support local journalism!

Upset that when I look at news headlines I keep seeing the words "blood worm moon"

Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...

Every episode of Between the Covers should be cherished. This one, feels like sitting down with the sacred and taking account.

Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific From the very first frames, you can tell there's something's off about Netflix's AI-powered remastering of "A Different World."

let me say it loud and clear: absolutely nobody wants this (and if you do, i’d love to talk to you)
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In addition to the larger systemic issues ... It is so baffling that the rent allowance in the last TWENTY YEARS has gone up by $55.

We're always happy when Access Copyright Foundation grantees get in touch with us, like @joellekidd.bsky.social. We're thrilled to hear that the Research Grant she was awarded has resulted in her new book from @ecwpress.bsky.social on evangelical Christian pop culture. ecwpress.com/products/jes...

Help every time I see this "I could open a stoahr for red-headed girls to buy cosmetics. From somebody who understands!" Runs through my brain

The Hard Times Cookbook Club: Honey Lentils and a Carrot Grilled Cheese A new six-week project to keep me from spiraling (and an invitation to join me)

Sending out the second installment of this series tomorrow and I would love to hear what you're cooking in these hard times! ❤️🍲❤️ open.substack.com/pub/joelleki...

"The incoherence of this idea — that the middle of the road is located off the beaten path — should be obvious." 🙌

The Giller Prize has (finally) cut ties with Scotiabank. After fifteen months of protests, boycotts, and pressure campaigns (from Can Lit Responds, No Arms in the Arts, and other activist groups within the Canadian literary community), the Giller Prize&#…

After fifteen months of outcry from the literary community, the Giller Prize has cut ties with Scotiabank.

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My book is so real, it's available for preorder Writing news and a belated Happy New Year!

Reflections on writing my book, and a link to preorder ✨ joellekidd.substack.com/p/my-book-is...

Reading Edmund White's City Boy is healing me

Not Strong Enough A year (and change) in a song, and trying to find an ending.

I briefly forgot Bluesky existed but I want to start sharing things on here again!! To that end: here's a recent newsletter that prompted a friend to gently suggest, "Maybe it's time to put down the Boygenius." joellekidd.substack.com/p/not-strong...

“Watching Taylor Swift is watching the self-consciousness of our age played out on an intensely public scale.”

Writer @joellekidd.bsky.social makes the case for why Swift has emerged as the prototypical millennial star: thewalrus.ca/taylor-swift...

My Year In Books: Part Two Apparently it is now 2024.

A newsletter, about maintenance and metaphor and all the books I read in the last half of 2023. joellekidd.substack.com/p/my-year-in...

Visiting parents is weird. Spotify algo has pushed my dad into 2000s emo. He just asked me if I'd ever heard of a band called "effervescence" (evanescence)