Ian LeTourneau

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

Supposed to be -25 tonight. Do you miss that too? Lol. You probably know but the Fiddlehead published Louis Ginsberg a bunch. 😎

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Wow

lil gem from the paris review archive #lisarussspaar

Long time customer here. I echo Pat Septon’s comments.

Palestinian flag to be raised at Fredericton City Hall on December 1 from 12pm to 1pm

So proud of the fact that Fredericton will be raising the Palestinian flag on December 1.

Me holding my copy of Platinum Blonde’s debut lp _Standing in the Dark_

Maybe I should celebrate this occasion by spinning this copy!

dawnymock cartoon of spaceship with “Miss Universe” beamed down… meeting Earth’s “Miss Universe”…both thinking “awkward”

My cartoons are on CartoonStock, and my book details are in linked tweet! (I am author, publisher, and marketer so please forgive the promotion). The book is Save the Earth(lings) and nobody wanted to publish a collection of environmental ‘toons, so I did!

YouTube video by Calle Underground PEARL JAM and NEIL YOUNG "Rockin' In The Free World" live at MTV 1993

Happy 80th birthday Neil Young! youtu.be/kQlTPXvOtoE

Long live print!

A bookcase near a doorway, through which you can see another bookcase. There are maybe 150 books visible, with very few duplicates; they are shelved fairly tightly, with only one face out.

A book open to a page with text about William Caslon, a printer and font creator. The text is actually in Centaur, which was created by Bruce Rogers. This is from Rogers' book about creating Centaur, actually.

Let's talk about books and the public trust.

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Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping:

Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.

I will never not be irritated by academic books that use short form endnotes tied to bibliographies that divide listings into primary, secondary, unpublished, online, government reports, or whatever. I want to read efficiently, not play the world's worst game of scholarly Where's Waldo 🗃️

bartlett pears, painted by james marion shull, 1916

bartlett pears, painted by james marion shull, 1916

So cathartic. I needed that!

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Game is about to start!

Pyramid of blue jays branded Tim Hortons cups in my office

Let’s go!

If this is your third Blue Jays World Series.... You better stretch before celebrating

Let's go #BlueJays

Me too but there seems to be something about the Moderna — had it twice, including most recently, and it’s knocked me out!

Hit me about a day and a half later!

My son and I have tickets for his Fredericton show next week — looking forward!

Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”

The Acutely Observed: A Review of Ian LeTourneau’s Metadata from a Changing Climate (Gaspereau Press, 2025) by Chris Banks I have been dipping into Ian LeTourneau’s latest collection Metadata from a Changing Climate for the last week, out with Gaspereau Press (2025), and this book really does a wonderful…

Thanks so much to @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social for his review of my @gaspereaupress.bsky.social book over on his wonderful website The Woodlot! the-wood-lot.ca/2025/10/28/t...

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade - Nature mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz.
mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

wait did ronald reagan just say go blue jays

2-2! My good luck charm is coming through!

Cover of Merriam-Webster's All Caps dictionary, a red background with a white circle and text for people who are mad.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

Our Autumn issue is now on its way to subscribers, featuring Summer Wishes (2023) by Ann Manuel on the cover.

Here’s a preview of what’s inside: thefiddlehead.ca/issue/305

Ps — that’s Larry’s art in background and we read in his beautiful studio!