Jeff Miller

“Final Boy,” by Sam Lipsyte “Oh, you write fan fiction,” she said. “We all write fan fiction,” I told her. “Some of us are just more honest about it.”

Happy Amazing there's a new Sam Lipsyte story in the @newyorker.com day to all who celebrate!!!

Yes! There is defintely a time travel element in this music! A return to the ancient tradition of the 90s!

Orcutt Shelley Miller, by Orcutt Shelley Miller 5 track album

In need of joy? Check out this powerful instrumental underground rock and feel alive again

Photo of a photocopied flyer: ZINEDUMP New Toronto Zine Fair (then the same information as in the post) Apply more and learn more: www.zinedump.fyi IG: @zinedump.fyi

ZINEDUMP is a new Toronto #zinefair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas.

The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre.

Applications are due August 31st!!!
zinedump.fyi
#zines #zinesdiy

Ghost Pine, a quarter-letter sized zine, whose cover image shows an old illustration of two people in dresses and big hats perusing books under a sign that reads "All the very latest novels." The zine is shown against a blue-green gradient background, with the sheer spite logo of a coiled snake. Text along the sides of the image reads "all stories true", a slogan that has appeared on other issues of Ghost Pine

After an 11-year hiatus, @theghostpine.bsky.social has put out a new zine!

Memories of growing up in suburban Ottawa and discovering coffee and punk as a teenager, Jeff’s current life in rural Nova Scotia, exchanging letters with friends across decades.

sheerspite.ca/product/ghos...

Thanks Frandroid!

Dick Diver review – beloved ‘dolewave’ band’s one-off reunion brings out Melbourne for four magical shows Thornbury Theatre, MelbourneIt has been 10 years since their last album but you’d be forgiven for forgetting any time had passed at all – they sound as tight as ever

Beautiful review of the reunion of one of the greatest bands of the 2010s. They made music perfect for hot sunny days like these

Yesssss up on the website soon >:)

Thanks! Lee from @sheerspite.bsky.social is hopefully going to carry them in Mtl :)

I'll mail you one next week!

Heading to Sappyfest this weekend with a new issue of Ghost Pine zine, the first in a while!

Cover of Dark Fantasy No. 22 (1980), published by Shadow Press. The title is printed in bold, stylized yellow and black text at the top. The central illustration features a medieval knight in armor leaning against a large, leaf-covered tree, holding a bow and arrows. A castle is faintly visible in the background. A diagonal black-and-yellow banner across the bottom reads, “Nominated for 10 SPWAO Awards.” Price is listed as $1.50.

New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible.

⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...

@internetarchiveca.bsky.social

I asked our friend Paul to design this Cooler At The Coast shirt for Jeff's birthday and it turned out so rad! Now you can get your own and/or some other cool stuff from him! Check out the Peace Worm pin ☮︎

Buy some of @paulghammond.bsky.social's excellent work!

Kardish Health Food Centre closing all Ottawa stores Ottawa-based Kardish Health Food Centre has announced it will be closing all its remaining locations after nearly five decades in business.

RIP to the first place I bought nutritional yeast

The French balados on Radio Canada's Ohdio app are wild. Today I listened to a lady who wrote a book about Proust, a gruff chansonier, and the first drummer of Motorhead(!) on a panel discussion about books and music. The Ringer podcast network would never

Canadian Books Made Me Canadian - Macleans.ca I left Russia as the country slid into authoritarianism and arrived in Canada knowing no one. In its novels, I found a blueprint for how to survive as a nation in the age of anger.

Sweet essay, with cameos from some of my all-time favourite novels

Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression In the spring of 2015, after I’d been working as a journalist for nearly two years, my post-graduation Work Permit expired. I’d been in Canada for seven years by then. I was allowed to stay in the …

@wordsweaver.bsky.social‬ on writing stories of African Black queer joy under oppression as an act of faith.

Wonderful!

The best ever 'Dining across the divide'! Matter and anti-matter find common ground

A conversation with Jarvis Cocker from 1998 The Pulp frontman on life after Britpop, making adult-contemporary pop music that isn't shit, not understanding 22-year-olds, and why he's mortified by his early records

Happy new Pulp album day! Here’s an interview I did with Jarvis Cocker in 1998 about life after Britpop, making adult-contemporary pop music that isn't shit, not understanding 22-year-olds, and why he's mortified by his early records: stubermania.substack.com/i/148668090/...

New Pulp and Turnstile records on the same day feels like a rare celestial event. A solar eclipse I'm going to stare into all day long

YouTube video by Minutemen - Topic Cut

"Ballot Result" gets my vote. Second is Avail "Live at Kings Head," for a big part of the record there's no music because they're fighting Nazis in the crowd

You won't be disappointed! It's luminous

The book Encampment by Maggie Hedwig against a colourful floral back drop

Encampment by @maggiehelwig.bsky.social is wonderful. A clear-eyed look at a broken system, yes. But also a rare honouring and centering of people on the margins. Helwig captures individuality and never caricatures. Beautiful and troubling and alive. Read it! @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

A purple covered graphic novel named Zeroed Out by Jim Munroe and Eric Kim

Whoo hoo! New book day! My sci-fi rom-com graphic novel about a shapeshifting situationship ZEROED OUT is out now. Sample and buy it via jimmunroe.net/comics/zeroe...

Oh wow!

I'm pretty sure Louis opened the archives for Andy Conundrum Brown :)

A hand holding up three books in front of the sign to the Bookmark bookstore in Halifax. The books are Why Fish Piss Matters by Andy Brown, Encampment by Maggie Helwig, and Living Expenses by Teri Vlassopoulous

Always thrilling to pick up my pre-orders! Especially an all-Canadian indie line up! Looking forward to reading Andy Brown's Why Fish Piss Matters from Vehicule, Maggie Helwig's Encampment from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, and @terivlass.bsky.social's Living Expenses from @invisibooks.bsky.social!

Vintage Sobeys along Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore now closed The grocery store in Head of Jeddore never underwent any major renovations while in operation, so shopping there was like taking a step back in time. A Foodland grocery store will soon replace it. Pre...

Our rural grocery store, largely unchanged for 40 years, closed today (replaced by a fancy new store across the parking lot). When I popped in earlier, everyone was chatting at the checkouts as usual. That won't change, but I'll miss the familiar nostalgic space and feel of our dear little Sobeys 💗