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📣 Coming January 2026 📣 Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a lyric bricolage of memoir, image, literature, history, and translation that wrestles with the shape death takes.

Add this one to your new-year book stack! 📚
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Immortal Woman (Su Chang @houseofanansi.bsky.social): houseofanansi.com/products/the... & The Road Between Us (Bindu Suresh @pressassembly.bsky.social): assemblypress.ca/shop/road-be... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #booklovers
Book cover for The Immortal Woman by Su Chang (House of Anansi): Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brutal act of violence during the Tiananmen Square protests and lost all hope for her country. Her daughter, Lin, is a student at an American university on a mission to become a true Westerner. She tirelessly erases her birth identity, abandons her Chinese suitor, and pursues a white lover, all the while haunted by the scars of her upbringing. Following China’s meteoric rise, Lemei is slowly dragged into a nationalistic perspective that stuns Lin. Their final confrontation results in tragic consequences, but ultimately, offers hope for a better future. By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reminds us to hold tight to our humanity at any cost. https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-immortal-woman Book cover for The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh (Assembly Press): Estela, a lawyer, struggles professionally after a deep childhood loss and an ill-advised undergraduate dalliance. Ash is a diplomat posted to Buenos Aires and Beijing who wants what he can’t have. Ophélie, a nurse, makes a grievous medical error that alters the course of her life. And Roman is an academic whose careless sexual escapades after a painful divorce lead to even more painful consequences. Tense, poetic, and as binge-worthy as a miniseries, The Road Between Us explores why we make the decisions we do, and how those decisions affect the people we love. https://assemblypress.ca/shop/road-between-us
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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You can help us to fund this fair: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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pantone’s color of the year is books
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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joannemerriam.bsky.social
4/4 Fine print: Canadian orders only, free titles are dealer’s choice, the more books you order, the more books you get for free, they reserve the right to dial this back if it gets out of hand. Sale runs Dec 1 - 19.

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Three book covers against a dark peach brown background with poinsetta flowers at one end, labeled CANADIAN FICTION. The books are: Gary Baldwin's Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction 2024-1984 (labeled FOR SURREALISTS), Bindu Suresh's The Road Between Us (labeled FOR GLOBETROTTERS), and Ken Murray's novel Eulogy (labeled FOR BLACK SHEEP).
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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3/4 Get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Canadians only.

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Three book covers against a mint green background with poinsetta flowers at opposite end, labeled POETRY. The books are: Kevin Stebner's inherent (labeled FOR DESIGN ENTHUSIASTS), Dag T. Straumsvag's The Mountains of Kong: New & Selected Prose Poems, translated by Robert Medin and the author (labeled FOR LINGUAPHILES), and Melanie Dennis Unrau's Goose (labeled FOR AMATEUR ARCHIVISTS).
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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2/4 Images stolen from their email, obvs. Get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Cdns only.

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Four book covers against a rust brown background with poinsetta flowers at one end, labeled CANADIAN NONFICTION. The books are: Eric McLuhan's The Sensus Communis, Synesthesia, and the Soul (labeled FOR PHILOSOPHERS), Andrew Forbes' Field Work (labeled FOR BASEBALL LOVERS), Sarah Selecky's Story is a State of Mind (labeled FOR WRITERS), and Phoebe Wang's Relative to Wind (labeled FOR SPORTY CREATIVES).
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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1/4 Bonus #SmallPress #books post! I just saw this: get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Cdns only.

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Three book covers against a lime green background with poinsetta flowers at one end, labeled INTERNATIONAL FICTION. The books are: Sulaiman Addonia's The Seers (labeled FOR PROVOCATEURS), Holly Pester's The Lodgers (labeled FOR GENERATION RENT), and Susanna Crossman's The Orange Notebooks (labeled FOR RELENTLESS OPTIMISTS).
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Thanks to excellent @robmclennan.bsky.social for interviewing me. We talked about what it’s like to be alive, my memoir Home Is Where We Start (Penguin), writing my novel The Orange Notebooks (@pressassembly.bsky.social & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social) & more... robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Susanna Crossman
Susanna Crossman  [photo credit: Morgane Michotte] is an essayist and award-winning fiction writer. Her acclaimed memoir, Home is Where We S...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Susanna Crossman / @susannacrossman.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Susanna Crossman
Susanna Crossman  [photo credit: Morgane Michotte] is an essayist and award-winning fiction writer. Her acclaimed memoir, Home is Where We S...
robmclennan.blogspot.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Indie publishers @pressassembly.bsky.social & Brick Books merged operations a month ago. Today, they share a little about what led to their decision and how the early days of working as one have taken shape.

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A graphic labelled "In House with Assembly Press" featuring the two presses logos at the top. The text is overlaid on a photo of a bookshelf lined with books in the Assembly Press office.
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Need to fill the next few days before the World Series starts? How about some baseball books from Canadian writers? 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #WorldSeries #CanLit
Books to Read at the World Series · Lists · 49th Shelf
Okay, Blue Jays! Let's play ball.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Storied poetry publisher Brick Books merges operations with upstart Assembly Press
In an attempt to secure financial stability in a tumultuous era for independent publishing houses, the publishers will share back-end operations while remaining editorial independence
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October 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
pressassembly.bsky.social
Nothing like a Monday morning hard launch: Assembly Press and Brick Books are delighted to share the news that we are merging operations.

More details on our website!
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Phoebe Wang's most recent book is Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community, published by Assembly Press. Kirkus called it “a thoughtful, illuminating look at life away from land."

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Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · 10/13/2025 · 31m
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October 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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To celebrate the Jays' ALDS win, @pressassembly.bsky.social is making Field Work available for 34% off the e-pub edition (1% per run the Jays scored on NYY). Not valid on print b/c Assembly isn't shipping rn in solidarity with striking Canada Post workers...

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Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living
Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew Forbes Baseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream—and for some, it’s also a…
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October 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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I'm so excited to annouce that Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century is now available for preorder from @pressassembly.bsky.social assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...
September 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Congratulations to the 2025 #GillerPrize longlist, including four LPG members: @pressassembly.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social & The Porcupine's Quill!
A graphic labelled 2025 Giller Prize longlist, LPG members. There are four book covers shown: The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh, Sugaring Off by Fanny Britt, An Admonishment of Stars by Kirti Bhadresa, and Still by Joanna Cockerline.
September 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏
"Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost."

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Telling My Lost Child the Story of His Life - Electric Literature
An excerpt from THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS by Susanna Crossman, recommended by Rachel Cantor
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September 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A story about a mother grieving the loss of her young son, and determined to tell him the story of his life. (@rachelcantor.bsky.social)
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September 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🇨🇦📚 Looking for Ontario-based publishers that do it all? From fiction, to non-fiction, to poetry, to drama, we've got you covered!📚🇨🇦 Part 1 of 4!

➡️ Featuring: @pressassembly.bsky.social, @biblioasis.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, Bookland Press, and @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

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August 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Field Work by @utilityofboredom.bsky.social from @pressassembly.bsky.social is a collection of essays from the writer of the excellent, Utility of Boredom, which I also highly recommend. assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...
Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living
Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew Forbes Baseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream—and for some, it’s also a…
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July 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Recently added to @netgalley.bsky.social: Property by Kate Cayley from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, and The Orange Notebooks by Susanna Crossman from @pressassembly.bsky.social!

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Property by Kate Cayley Available from Coach House Books, October 7, 2025 ISBN 9781552455074 Property is a modern, class-conscious Mrs. Dalloway set in Toronto. An unsettling novel that dissects common narratives of family and community, showing the fragile ties that hold us together. The Orange Notebooks by Susanna Crossman Available from Assembly Press, September 2, 2025 ISBN 9781998336197 Told through a mother's journals written while interned in a French psychiatric ward, The Orange Notebooks is a novel about love, and the lost language and rituals of mourning.
June 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Holy heck do I love this review. Thanks @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social !!

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ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · Jun 22
Well, I loved every word of this. From Subway Sam to Shucks Pruett, this was a poetic guidepost in some uncertain, awful times. Really captured what I love about the game and y’know, being a human.

Thank you, @utilityofboredom.bsky.social!
Cover for Andrew Forbes’ book of baseball essays Field Work
June 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kevin Stebner / @pressassembly.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kevin Stebner
Kevin Stebner is an artist, poet and musician. He produces visual art using old videogame gear, and produces music and soundtracking with h...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM