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A poster advertising the launch of How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists, tonight, November 13, 7pm at Type Books

Tonight in Toronto. Art, money, artists, money, Sarah, Type Books, me, money, great hair and money. And art.
See you there.

@coachhousebooks.bsky.social

A poster, shot from behind, advertising the launch of the book 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off. The event takes place Wednesday, November 12 at 7pm at Pulp Books, 3925 Rue Wellington.

Montreal! Tonight! Libraire Pulp! 7pm! Forget the snow, come make some money*

*Or at least learn about how other people have made money and/or prevented themselves from losing money due to chicanery

“I had thought that the point of buying a beloved, profitable publication was to make it more profitable… That is not the point of buying a beloved, profitable publication (or any business). The point is to make the private equity firm more profitable.”

Event poster for Raymond Biesinger's book launch at Pulp Books on Weds., Nov. 12, at 7 PM. 3952 Rue Wellington, Verdun. David Berry will be in conversation with Biesinger.

Event poster for Berry's Toronto Book Launch at Type Books (883 Queen St. W.). 7 PM. Berry will be in conversation with Sarah Lazarovic.

Catch David Berry at two events this week, talking all things art and money. On Weds., Nov. 12, he’ll be at Pulp Books in Verdun in conversation with Raymond Biesinger (who designed the cover of HAMM&HMMA), and on Thurs., Nov. 13, please join us for the Toronto Book Launch at TYPE Books!

Text from The Globe and Mail, from their webpage hosting Josh O'Kane's interview with David Berry. The page features a photo of Berry smiling at the camera.

Text from the introduction to the interview between O'Kane and Berry. Page features the book cover of Berry's latest book.

This weekend in @theglobeandmail.com, @joshokane.bsky.social spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists!

Read the interview here: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry In his new book, the cultural critic looks at how the dynamics play out in everything from music to painting

"It simply happens that Berry both carries the thoroughness of a journalist in his work and considers that work to be artistic. He treats his arguments with refreshing grace."

Thanks to @joshokane.bsky.social for talking through the new book with me

www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry In his new book, the cultural critic looks at how the dynamics play out in everything from music to painting

On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

On the awkward, thorny relationship between art and money, with author David Berry In his new book, the cultural critic looks at how the dynamics play out in everything from music to painting

Spoke with @pleasuremotors.bsky.social about his new book, the endlessly quotable How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social), lopsided markets for creativity, the scourge of "innovation," and Yakety Yak:

www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Calgary if you're looking for a pleasant way to spend the evening @shelflifebooks.bsky.social has got you covered

This burgeoning movement seeks to root criticism of (and response to) Big Tech in ideas of health (public, social, intellectual, and spiritual) and morality rather than size and power, positioning the rise of social media and the platform giants as something between a public-health scare and a spiritual threat, rather than (solely) a problem of political economy or market design. I see versions of this school of thought not just in speeches and op-eds from Auchincloss and Cox or blog posts from Thompson, but in Chris Hayes’ book The Siren’s Call and in the inescapable work of Jonathan Haidt. (You might broadly think of Hayes and Haidt as representing “left” and “right” tendencies of the broader movement.) Notably, all of the above-mentioned have found platforms on Klein’s podcast. Back in a January interview with Hayes, Klein offered up a kind of political vision or prediction rooted in this tendency:

Thompson dubs this loose movement, or at least the version touted by Auchincloss, “touch-grass populism,” but I think this is wrong: The framework in question is distinctly not “populist” (unlike, say, the neo-Brandeisian “new antitrust” movement that has been a major focus of the “techlash” to date) so much as progressive in the original sense, a reform ideology rooted in middle-class concerns for general social welfare in the wake of sweeping technological change. At its broadest you could maybe call this budding program of restriction, restraint, and regulation “Platform Temperance.” But that name describes a broad tent, and like the progressive movements that emerged in the late 19th century, it can produce both grounded liberal-technocratic visions, and paternalistic, pseudoscientific, and ultimately harmful moral panics.

on an emerging movement in the discourse: "platform temperance" maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...

If you're in Edmonton and not planning any civil disobedience or anything like that maybe you'd like to come out to a book launch tonight?

URGENT – Stop Alberta's government from overriding the Charter of Rights Alberta Premier Smith plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause to pass laws that erase rights and silence the courts.

In less than one day, over 8,000 Albertans have signed this petition and sent letters to Alberta's Premier, local MLAs, and the Opposition Leader.

If we don’t act, we teach every future government that rights are temporary.

Join the fight here: savethecharter.ca

Being a butcher, I was at stores where I would be the main cutter. I’d get home and my hands would be in so much pain, I couldn’t draw shit. Even the mental energy needed to write was exhausted. I honestly feel part of being a cartoonist is finding a day job where you can 1/2 ass, 1/4 ass infact!

Literary Arts Fund logo

Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.

its im asuming a bookstore with those words in the front on a poster

FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA.
MARRY BOOKS.
KILL AI.

Join David Berry for book launches across Canada, starting with his Edmonton book launch tomorrow night in Edmonton! Then he'll be in Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto in November. 💸📗

A poster for a book launch for the book Now Artists Make Money & How Money Makes Artists at Audrey's Books on Wednesday, October 29 at 7pm

A poster for a book launch for the book Now Artists Make Money & How Money Makes Artists at Shelf Life Books on Thursday, November 6 at 7pm

A poster for a book launch for the book Now Artists Make Money & How Money Makes Artists at Pulp Books on Wednesday, November 12 at 7pm

A poster for a book launch for the book Now Artists Make Money & How Money Makes Artists at Type Books on Thursday, November 13 at 7pm

Some of you may know I wrote a book, but did you know you could come see me talk about that book, and ask questions about that book?

See all the details in the pictures. And maybe see you soon.

@coachhousebooks.bsky.social @shelflifebooks.bsky.social @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social

Let's be clear about what happened today.

Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,

denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,

and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.

The Geometry Problem Suburbia doesn't scale

"Simply put, the Geometry Problem is that cars are much bigger than humans. ... these physical differences mean that when we optimize places for cars, they end up not working well (or working at all) for any other mode. They become *car-only* places."

Great post, lays it out very clearly.

These days reading a book feels like a kind of inner emigration, a refusal of the slopworld

The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

you will just have to trust me that this essay is so good and worth your time to read!!!!

Unofficial results - 2025 Edmonton Municipal Election Unofficial election results for the 2025 Edmonton Municipal Election held on Oct. 20, 2025

The first results have started coming in! edmonton.taproot.vote/2025/results #yegvote #yeg

Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments

One of the less discussed harms of car-centric planning is that it imposes a serious financial burden on working families. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Developers used networks of companies to funnel money to Edmonton council candidates Analysis of corporate records shows connections between several companies funding local political campaigns

As Edmonton voters prepare to go to the polls Oct. 20, the Investigative Journalism Foundation analyzed financial disclosures and corporate records to see if all campaign donors are following the rules. Read what we found in our story.

zurl.co/pzelL

#abpoli

This is a great piece.

All our other efforts to make Canada stand on its own aren't going to mean much if we still understand ourselves through a fundamentally American lens.

Not much of a baseball guy but do I have it right that Max Scherzer is basically Steven J Lockjaw except striking dudes out is his black lady activist?

Join us for two events with David Berry coming up soon:
Thurs., Nov. 6, 7 PM: Book Launch at Shelf Life Books (Calgary), with Ali Bryan, and on Thurs., Nov. 13, 7 PM: David Berry at TYPE Books (Toronto), with Sarah Lazarovic.

For full event details: chbooks.com/Events