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Jacob McArthur Mooney
@mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
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Poems, jokes, and fiction. Recently: Frank's Wing (poems, 2023). Next: The Northern (novel, 2025). Occasionally: The Beaverton, others. https://mcarthurmooney.carrd.co/
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Ah yes, here's the October baseball I remember...
My wife reads endlessly but also has an impeccable numbers sense, and this means that she foregoes bookmarks. She just stops reading, downs the book, remembers she's on page 167. And pages 305 and 84 of her other two books-in-progress. One of the top eight or nine most astonishing things about her.
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TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm - Host @valentinoassenza.bsky.social welcomes Ira Wells with his latest book “On Book Banning” @biblioasis.bsky.social - Also on the show Jacob McArthur Mooney @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social talking about his latest novel “The Northern” @ecwpress.bsky.social
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I finally had the time to read this and it was really worthwhile. A character focussed coming of age story in the world of low level baseball and baseball cards. Dreams vs reality. It’s always fun to see #ldnont represented in a novel, even for a chapter. #booksky
Hi friends who are here!

I've digital ARCs (plus this one physical ARC) of my novel if you or someone else is interested. Baseball cards! Labour! Child endagerment! Book is out in all channels this May.

ecwpress.com/products/nor...
Stolen valour because I suspect this used to be a softball uniform.
Really glad you liked it, John!
Today's goodness is sponsored by my wife, who thrifted me this shirt someone made.
It has a lot to recommend it. Available at TPL through Libby if you still have an account.
I can't decide if I like this or I think it is Dr Seuss for grad students.
Today's read is from The Feeling Sonnets by Eugene Ostashevsky
Erev Yom Kippur and the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation share a date this year (Sept 30). The op-eds write themselves...
Today's read is Zeroville by Steve Erickson, which is mostly about the movies but contains the best paragraph about punk music.
from Existing Music, the new Nick Thran.
What a terrible time to have lungs.
The most common refrain in the parenting social media ecosystem is "Schools should start teaching {thing that is already subject to 100+ curriculum hours in most public schools}"
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Audiobook Narrator Spotlight: Peter Outerbridge

Peter Outerbridge is one of my fave Canadian actors and I'm looking forward to listening to his narration of "The Northern" by @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social a #ReadTheNorth selection from the Toronto Public Library toronto.overdrive.com/media/11965360
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Spoke to poet @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social about his novel The Northern ( @ecwpress.bsky.social ) for Turning Pages today. Episode is up now: umfm.com/programming/...
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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
Happy to have a poem called "Fields & Arenas" up at @bookninja.bsky.social 's famously minimalist New Poetry today.

newpoetry.ca/2025/06/09/f...
It is again that time of year when I have to suffer people using the word "graduand."
Happy birthday to The Northern. Would be great to see friends and neighbours at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social tonight for books, beverages, and entertainment from myself, Lex, and @utilityofboredom.bsky.social .
I am fully 100% onboard with unisex washrooms but I must ask for signage that tells me, when there are multiple options, which door can be relied on to lead to urinals, as I am a busy modern person and I have the capacity and desire to pee standing.