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Joanne Merriam
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Kjipuktuk|Halifax (formerly Tsalaguwetiyi|Nashville). Inventor #DSPBposts. Small press, murals, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. I turn tea into words: novel AETHER AND EGO (Inanna, fall 2026). Sign up for my newsletter at https://joannemerriam.com.
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Glenn Kurtz's Men at Work: www.sevenstories.com/books/4770-m... & Olga Tokarczuk's The Lost Soul, trans Antonia Lloyd-Jones: www.sevenstories.com/books/4275-t... (both @sevenstories.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #booklovers
Book cover for Glenn Kurtz's Men at Work: The Empire State Building and the Untold Story of the Craftsmen who Built It (Seven Stories Press): The author of Three Minutes in Poland and Practicing uncovers the identities of the Empire State Building construction workers, made famous by Lewis W. Hine's legendary portraits. https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4770-men-at-work Book cover for Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk's The Lost Soul, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Seven Stories): a beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life. https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4275-the-lost-soul
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men (@transitbooks.bsky.social) & Susan Straight's Sacrament (Counterpoint/@catapultbooks.bsky.social) See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men (Transit Books): Ursula K. LeGuin meets The Road in a post-apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy. https://www.transitbooks.org/books/iwhohaveneverknownmencollectorsedition Book cover for National Book Award finalist Susan Straight's Sacrament: A Novel (Counterpoint): about a group of nurses fighting through the first year of a pandemic and the beloved California community they will risk their lives to protect. https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/sacrament/
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Alphabet Soup by A. Gregory Frankson (@dundurnpress.bsky.social): www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211... & The Bare Bones of Our Alphabet by Irene Marques (@mawenzihouse.bsky.social): www.mawenzihouse.com/product/the-... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
Book cover for The Bare Bones of Our Alphabet by Irene Marques (Mawenzi House): a collection of poetry that reveals an all-consuming yearning: the desire to find a language that can tell the most about our existence. What the poet asks for, works obsessively to tap into, is a native tongue, a vernacular that bypasses the traps of a supposed rationality and objectivity forged in a body-politic consumed by self-interests that reduce our ontological experience. The Bare Bones of Our Alphabet calls for an activation of our primary ways of seeing that perceive spontaneously, without deliberation, which have been subdued by the material beneficiaries of our world and deemed non-intelligent. The poems invite us to re-enter our truly bare bones—our empty, sparkling space—before the codified verb, with its imposed grammar, placed us in a consented incarceration. The poet endeavours to uncover the bare alphabets we must return to—the redeeming letters—where the possibility of rebirth resides, for all and everything that has been annihilated by an unethical rhetoric, a verbosity of lies, engendered through undemocratic paradigms crafted by humans. https://www.mawenzihouse.com/product/the-bare-bones-of-our-alphabet/ Book cover for Alphabet Soup: A Memoir in Letters by A. Gregory Frankson (Rare Machines/Dundurn): A tasty yet experimental recipe of creative memoir in poetic prose cooked up for your consumption — one letter at a time. Alphabet Soup is a poetic exploration of the deeper meaning discovered by stirring up the depths of one’s most personal lived experiences. Twenty-six letters, one missive addressed to each letter of the alphabet, dive into the scalding heat of memory through themes that recall and reframe love, death, joy, sorrow, victory, devastation, and more. Using prose that is by turns startling, revelatory, humorous, sorrowful, and triumphant, these introspections on the nature of living engage the mind and heart in the difficult, unending work of grappling with one’s past in the present, with the hope it can help create a more satisfying future. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459750333-alphabet-soup
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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9/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @beingkirti.bsky.social ‬@tahasiddiqui.bsky.social @patrickgreaney.bsky.social @mitamahato.bsky.social @the3rdthing.press @ecwpress.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booklovers
Book cover for Arctic Play by Mita Mahato‬ (3rd Thing‬): A drama, a dirge, an expedition log, a series of poetic experiments, a comic book. Mapping an Arctic imaginary of beings and landforms onto a shifting stage of woven and layered papers, Mita Mahato conjures geographic and creative uncertainty as the necessary condition for navigating the climate crisis and its sorrows. https://the3rdthing.press/product/arctic-play/ Book cover for The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile by Taha Siddiqui & Hubert Maury and translated by David Homel (Arsenal Pulp)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Dissident-Club‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Book cover for An Astonishment of Stars: Stories by Kirti Bhadresa (ECW Press): A beautifully written short story collection that charts the lives of racialized women as they navigate their relationships, aspirations, and the burdens of memory and expectations. https://ecwpress.com/collections/books/products/an-astonishment-of-stars Book cover for Documentary Poetry by Heimrad Bäcker, edited and translated by Patrick Greaney‬ (Winter Editions): Austrian poet and photographer Heimrad Bäcker's essays, collected here along with a selection of his photographs and two of his documentary poems, explore the poetic, philosophical, and political stakes of his investigation into the memory of the Holocaust. https://www.wintereditions.net/product/documentary-poetry/
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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8/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @biblioasis.bsky.social @kevingrauke.bsky.social @bullshitlit.bsky.social @stevenlaffoley.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for What’s the Point? An Irreverent History of Point Pleasant Park by Steven Laffoley (Pottersfield Press‬)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬: Here is a book of history in its most entertaining form: the story of Point Pleasant Park, a unique 190-acre collection of paths, ponds, and port-o-potties; flora, fauna, and fungi; battlements, monuments, and burial mounds all situated at the far south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia. https://nimbus.ca/store/whats-the-point.html Book cover for Yonderites by Kevin Grauke (Bullshit Lit): Kevin Grauke’s collection of short stories set in the made-up town of Yonder, Texas. “What if Sherwood Anderson had been born a century later, in small-town Texas instead of Ohio, raised on Lone Star beer and The Last Picture Show?”-Chris Haven, author of Nesting Habits of Flightless Birds https://www.bullshitlit.com/shop/p/yonderites Book cover for The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk (Biblioasis): On a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s, a young girl copes with the heavy cost of migration. When her mother emigrates to England to find work, Wheeler and her older sisters are left to live with their aunts and cousins. She spends most days with her cousin Donelle, knocking about their island community. They know they must address their elders properly and change their shoes after church. And during the long, quiet weeks of Lent, when the absent sound of the radio seems to follow them down the road, they look forward to kite season. But Donelle is just a child, too, and though her sisters look after her with varying levels of patience, Wheeler couldn’t feel more alone. Everyone tells her that soon her mother will send for her, but how much longer will it be? And as she does her best to navigate the tensions between her aunts, why does it feel like there’s no one looking out for her at all? Shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction. https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/novel/the-pages-of-the-sea/ Book cover for Eros and Revolution by George Katsiaficas (Black Rose Books): Tying his intellectual concerns to social movements in South Korea, Germany and dozens of countries, historian and social theorist George Katsiaficas traces the evolution of history from the global eruption of 1968 and the Black Panther Party to the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and Occupy Wall Street. His theory of the Eros effect helps us to understand social movements as a logical unfolding of the practice of thousands if not millions of people as they rise up to change their lives. https://blackrosebooks.com/collections/new-forthcoming/products/b-eros-and-revolution-b-br-george-katsiaficas-br-pre-order
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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7/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social @denibechard.bsky.social ‬@houseofanansi.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard (House of Anansi)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬: A haunting novel exploring AI and the meaning of human existence from the award-winning author of Cures for Hunger and Into the Sun. A Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2025. https://houseofanansi.com/products/we-are-dreams-in-the-eternal-machine Book cover for A Watch of Nightingales by Catherine Walker (Inanna): When Emily Carr leaves her restrictive home in Canada to study art in London, England, she longs to prove herself as an artist, trying to carve a path for herself towards financial security. But her dreams don’t receive a warm welcome, as her disapproving English relatives believe that the only respectable path for a woman is marriage. Before Emily can prove the worth of her artistic career, she falls ill and finds herself trapped in a sanatorium, forming an unlikely friendship with Beth, a Florence Nightingale nurse assigned to her care. As a web of intrigue and poisonings tightens around them, Beth and Emily find themselves in a race against time to prevent an attempted murder. https://inanna.ca/product/a-watch-of-nightingales/ Book cover for Time Fixers (Miles In Time Book 2) by Lee Matthew Goldberg (Wise Wolf Books). From the Author of Miles in Time comes the sequel, Time Fixers, where the past holds the key to saving the future.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Fix the past, save your mom…and don’t fall for the enemy. 15-year-old sleuth Miles Hardy returns to quiet Frontier, Iowa—where cases are scarce and boredom runs deep. But when their mom’s mental health rapidly declines and she’s placed in a care facility, Miles and Simon make an impossible choice to travel back to 1999 to rewrite her fate. But the mission takes a dangerous twist when they discover their grandfather is working for the same ruthless corporation that once hunted the time machine—and he’s still after it. https://wisewolfbooks.com/2025/04/time-fixers-miles-in-time-book-2-by-lee-matthew-goldberg Book cover for Miles In Time by Lee Matthew Goldberg (Wise Wolf Books). Solve the mystery, save the future… 14-year-old Miles Hardy spends most of his time as an amateur Sherlock Holmes and running his detective agency with his good friend and loyal assistant, Kevin. However, in sleepy Frontier, Iowa, it’s been hard to snag a case bigger than finding some old lady’s missing cat—until Miles’ genius older brother, Simon the inventor, winds up dead. Using his knack for uncovering hidden truths, Miles stumbles upon a secret lab where his late brother created a groundbreaking time machine. Among the discoveries is a chilling video Simon recorded before his death, revealing his fear of being followed and a dire warning: if anything happens to him, Miles must use the time machine to uncover who is after the invention and stop them. The stakes couldn’t be higher—if the device falls into the wrong hands, the future itself could be at risk. https://wisewolfbooks.com/2025/03/miles-in-time-miles-in-time-book-1-by-lee-matthew-goldberg‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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6/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @dzshaw.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @akpress.org @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social @ariel-gordon.bsky.social @greatplainspress.bsky.social @jakeswanwriter.bsky.social @galleon-books.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish
Book cover for Blood Letters by GMB Chomichuk and Ariel Gordon (Great Plains): When your entire family is caught up in a world war with flesh-eating fog and robotic monstrosities, the only question that matters is: what are you willing to do to survive? https://greatplainspress.ca/books/blood-letters/ Book cover for Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown (AK Press): New York Times-bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever, and offers "loving corrections": a roadmap towards collective power, righting wrongs, and true belonging. https://www.akpress.org/loving-corrections.html Book cover for Grantrepreneurs by Jake Swan (Galleon Books): Nick, a young physician disillusioned with clinical work, moves from small province New Brunswick to big city Vancouver to take a research position with a medical startup, A.I. Plus Womxn’s Health Solutions. Nick quickly finds himself working in the company of “Grantrepreneurs” – rogues of the business world who have created a financing model based entirely on the exploitation of public grant and subsidy programs. https://galleonbooks.ca/our-list/ Book cover for Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique, and the Three Way Fight by D.Z. Shaw (Kersplebedeb Publishing): Learning from the past to build a revolutionary antifascism for the present and future. https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/new-book-genealogies-of-antifascism-militancy-critique-the-three-way-fight/
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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5/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @jenwinsorauthor.bsky.social @genderhorizon.com @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social @commonnotions.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for the memoir Ship Moms by Jen Winsor (Breakwater Books). Lust, love, and pregnancy—hidden from the luxury and leisure of cruise ships, the lives of crew members play out below deck. Ship Moms is a collection of these beautiful, complicated, behind-the-scenes true stories of crew members and the babies they brought into the world. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/ship-moms Book cover for Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by M. E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi (Common Notions). By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse. https://www.commonnotions.org/everything-for-everyone Book cover for Midway: Poems by Kayla Czaga, a finalist for the 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (House of Anansi). Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, Midway is an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. https://houseofanansi.com/products/midway Book cover for The Seaweed Blanket by Nancy Deas and illustrated by Mike Deas (Red Deer Press). When Maren and her younger sister visit lonely Aunt Pearl, they long to play in the sea but their aunt keeps them too busy until the dog accidentally gets out and a chase ensues. https://www.reddeerpress.com/Detail/0889957614
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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4/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @caitlinpress.bsky.social @nicolebreit.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for Bloom: Letters on Girlhood by authors Nicole Breit & Claire Sicherman (Caitlin Press), a timely memoir exploring how societal expectations shape identity, and how we can continue, at any age, to release the past. https://caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Bloom Book cover for I Make My Own Fun by Hannah Beer (which The Daily Mail called "a dark, crazed reversal of Notting Hill") (House of Anansi). The sinister side of celebrity fandom is inverted in this razor-sharp debut following the descent of the world’s most beloved movie star into a dark and disastrous obsession—perfect for readers of You and My Sister, the Serial Killer.  https://houseofanansi.com/products/i-make-my-own-fun Book cover for Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems by Fariha Róisín (Andrews McMeel Publishing). In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Róisín is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received and the kindness she couldn’t give. https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/survival-takes-a-wild-imagination-poems/ Book cover for Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through: an essay by T. Fleischmann (Coffee House Press). How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s artworks—piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles—as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. https://coffeehousepress.org/products/time-is-the-thing-a-body-moves-through
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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3/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @elainemwill.bsky.social @renegadeartsent.bsky.social @lanashupeauthor.bsky.social @teganthomas.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @lydiconklin.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social @suecurrie24.bsky.social @commondeerpress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish
Book cover for Songs of No Provenance by Lydi Conklin (Catapult). Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage that she fears will doom her career. Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she’s forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking—and her complicated history with a friend and mentee—while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member. https://books.catapult.co/books/songs-of-no-provenance/ Book cover for The Book Witch, the Wee White Dog, and the Little Free Library by Lana Shupe, ill. by Tegan Thomas (Nimbus). After travelling the world and collecting books from every country, the Book Witch is now settled at home with her wee white dog. She spends her days reading, surrounded by piles and piles of books. Life is good. Until one stormy day when a massive gust of wind blows a pile of heavy books over, landing on the Wee White Dog’s tail! Something must be done before tragedy strikes again. What can the Book Witch do with all these books? https://nimbus.ca/store/the-book-witch-the-wee-white-dog-and-the-little-free-library.html Book cover for The Last Band on Earth by author and illustrator Elaine M. Will (Renegade Arts). A dystopian horror story about music and mental illness. Nat and her bandmates in The Dead Layaways want to go on tour, but the demonic entities who run their city have other idea, not to mention the dark cloud that hangs over everything stifles their creativity. This ruined place is not their home, and they have no idea how they ended up here, or where “home” even is. Is there really nothing but endless wasteland beyond the city limits, as the demons claim? https://renegadeartsentertainment.com/product/the-last-band-on-earth/# Book cover for Fierce Voice by Susan Currie (Common Deer Press). Iz has everything she's ever wanted: she’s found the foster home of her dreams and is attending the prestigious music school she moved heaven and earth to get into. But secrets from her past keep threatening to spill into the present, and Iz is sure that her newfound loved ones will abandon her if they learn of her terrible history. Fierce Voice is the sequel to the White Pine Award nominee Iz the Apocaylpse. https://www.commondeerpress.com/books-1/fierce-voice
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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2/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @theotherali.bsky.social @inhabitmedia.bsky.social @adambunch.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @sclly21.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for The Haunted Blizzard by Aviaq Johnston (Inhabit Media). A teenage girl walks home in a burgeoning blizzard, happy to have an unexpected snow day. Ignoring an Elder’s warning about the terror the blizzard holds, she finds herself alone in her home with an unseen presence stalking and tormenting her. What does it want? And will she survive? https://inhabitmedia.com/2025/04/16/the-haunted-blizzard/ Book cover for The Toronto Book Of The Dead by Adam Bunch (Dundurn Press). Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459738065-the-toronto-book-of-the-dead Book cover for The Monsters Are Here by Lori D'Angelo (ELJ Editions). Thirty stories which can be described as Kelly Link meets Bram Stoker and Nathaniel Hawthorne in a forest or an alternative universe with aliens. https://elj-editions.com/the-monsters-are-here/ Book cover for Tiri Is Scared of the Dark by Nadia Sammurtok and Rachel Rupke, illustrated by Ali Hinch (Inhabit Media). Tiri has a secret: he is scared of the dark. He doesn’t want anyone to find out, but as he spends the day with his friends, he learns they are each scared of something, too. Tuktu is scared of heights. Ukaliq is scared of swimming in deep water. Will Tiri be able to open up and face his own fear? See how the friends learn to support one another. https://inhabiteducationbooks.com/collections/arvaaq-books/products/tiri-is-scared-of-the-dark
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: An Indian Among los Indígenas by Ursula Pike (@heydaybooks.com): www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/an-i... & Where the Jasmine Blooms by @zslong.bsky.social (@fernpub.bsky.social): fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/where-t... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading
Book cover for Where the Jasmine Blooms by Zeina Sleiman (Fernwood Publishing). Two Palestinian cousins with very different lives meet in Lebanon and discover their family’s political secrets amid the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/where-the-jasmine-blooms Book cover for An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike (Heyday): A gripping, witty memoir about indigeneity, travel, and colonialism. https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/an-indian-among-los-indigenas-paperback/
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Everything for Everyone, @genderhorizon.com & @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social (@commonnotions.bsky.social): www.commonnotions.org/everything-f... & The Seaweed Blanket, Nancy Deas (Red Deer Press): www.reddeerpress.com/Detail/08899... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
Book cover for The Seaweed Blanket by Nancy Deas and illustrated by Mike Deas (Red Deer Press). When Maren and her younger sister visit lonely Aunt Pearl, they long to play in the sea but their aunt keeps them too busy until the dog accidentally gets out and a chase ensues. https://www.reddeerpress.com/Detail/0889957614 Book cover for Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by M. E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi (Common Notions). By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse. https://www.commonnotions.org/everything-for-everyone
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Day 3 of the #LivingRoomMural (day 2, which I'll link below, was 26 days ago - I have been working on the rest of the house). Excited to be able to get back to this though it'll probably be another 3 weeks to a month before I can do more. #muralartist #mural #artistsonbluesky #painting #blueskyart
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Dwelling by @allisonpoet.bsky.social (@redhenpress.bsky.social): redhen.org/book/dwelling/ & The Great Lunenburglary by Bryn Pottie (@moosehousepress.bsky.social): www.moosehousepress.com/product-page... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #bookish
Book cover for Dwelling by Allison Joseph (Red Hen Press). Dwelling is the latest collection from Allison Joseph, whose wise words, narrative passion, and lyrical intensity have made her a fan favorite with audiences of all ages. In Dwelling, Joseph is concerned with the inevitable search for home—as a woman, as a person of color, and as a poet. Her poems take on subjects from the serious and sublime to the humorous and ironic. Whatever her subject, Joseph is humane, humble, hilarious, and high-spirited. This poet goes wherever her imagination thrives—dwelling among us and beyond us. https://redhen.org/book/dwelling/ Book cover for The Great Lunenburglary by Bryn Pottie (Moose House). In 1922 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, two friends with dreams of breaking the mould of Maritime music find themselves entangled in the most daring heist in Nova Scotian history. This rollicking farce combines wild adventures with trenchant comments on current events. Join the greatest caper Nova Scotia has ever seen! https://www.moosehousepress.com/product-page/the-great-lunenburglary
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Survival Takes a Wild Imagination, Fariha Róisín (@andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social): publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/surviva... & Time Is the Thing..., T. Fleischmann (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social): coffeehousepress.org/products/tim... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
Book cover for Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems by Fariha Róisín (Andrews McMeel Publishing). In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Róisín is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received and the kindness she couldn’t give. https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/survival-takes-a-wild-imagination-poems/ Book cover for Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through: an essay by T. Fleischmann (Coffee House Press). How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s artworks—piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles—as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. https://coffeehousepress.org/products/time-is-the-thing-a-body-moves-through
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Brooke Palmieri's Bargain Witch (@semiotexte.bsky.social): dopaminebooks.org/books/bargai... & Enemy of the Sun eds. Naseer Aruri & Edmund Ghareeb (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.sevenstories.com/books/4703-e... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity
Book cover for Brooke Palmieri's Bargain Witch: Essays in Self-Initiation (DOPAMINE/Semiotext(e)): An occult history that grounds the sacred yearning for magic in real life. https://dopaminebooks.org/books/bargain-witch Book cover for Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb (Seven Stories Press): An updated edition of the 1970 collection of Palestinian poetry that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggles around the world. https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4703-enemy-of-the-sun
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Bloom by @nicolebreit.bsky.social & Claire Sicherman (@caitlinpress.bsky.social): caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Bloom & I Make My Own Fun by Hannah Beer (@houseofanansi.bsky.social): houseofanansi.com/products/i-m... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookish
Book cover for Bloom: Letters on Girlhood by authors Nicole Breit & Claire Sicherman (Caitlin Press), a timely memoir exploring how societal expectations shape identity, and how we can continue, at any age, to release the past. https://caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Bloom Book cover for I Make My Own Fun, a novel by Hannah Beer (which The Daily Mail called "a dark, crazed reversal of Notting Hill") (House of Anansi). The sinister side of celebrity fandom is inverted in this razor-sharp debut following the descent of the world’s most beloved movie star into a dark and disastrous obsession—perfect for readers of You and My Sister, the Serial Killer.  https://houseofanansi.com/products/i-make-my-own-fun
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: two from yesterday's #Metafilter post: www.metafilter.com/211014/Books...: All-Negro Comics (@imagecomics.com) imagecomics.com/comics/relea... & Feasts of Good Fortune (Sasquatch Books): sasquatchbooks.com/books/feasts...
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Book cover for Feasts of Good Fortune: 75 Recipes for a Year of Chinese American Celebrations, from Lunar New Year to Mid-Autumn Festival and Beyond by Hsiao-Ching Chou and Meilee Chou Riddle (Sasquatch Books): https://sasquatchbooks.com/books/feasts-of-good-fortune/ Book cover for All-Negro Comics: America's First Black Comic Book by Chris Robinson and Orrin C. Evans (Image Comics): Winner of the Eisner Award. The first comic ever created by African Americans, for African Americans. https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/all-negro-comics-americas-first-black-comic-book-tp-book-1
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Jackal, Jackal by @tobiogundiran.com ‬(@undertow.bsky.social): undertowpublications.com/shop/jackal-... & Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, trans. Jennifer Feeley (@feministpress.bsky.social): feministpress.org/products/978... Alt-text=details. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish
Book cover for Jackal, Jackal by Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow Publications). From Shirley Jackson award-nominated author Tobi Ogundiran, comes a highly anticipated debut collection of stories full of magic and wonder and breathtaking imagination! https://undertowpublications.com/shop/jackal-jackal Book cover for Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, trans. Jennifer Feeley (Feminist Press). Tongueless follows two rival teachers at a secondary school in Hong Kong who are instructed to switch from teaching in Cantonese to Mandarin—or lose their jobs. Apolitical and focusing on surviving and thriving in their professional environment, Wai and Ling each approach the challenge differently. Wai, awkward and unpopular, becomes obsessed with Mandarin learning; Ling, knowing how to please her superiors and colleagues, thinks she can tactfully dodge the Mandarin challenge by deploying her social savviness. Wai eventually crumples under the pressure and dies by suicide, leaving her colleague Ling to face seismic political and cultural change alone as she considers how far she will go to survive such a ruthlessly competitive work environment. Winner of the 2024 PEN Translates Award. https://feministpress.org/products/9781558613188-tongueless
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Miles In Time & Time Fixers (MIT2) by @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social (Wise Wolf Books): wisewolfbooks.com/2025/03/mile... & wisewolfbooks.com/2025/04/time... See alt-text for descriptions.

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Book cover for Time Fixers (Miles In Time Book 2) by Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social (Wise Wolf Books). From the Author of Miles in Time comes the sequel, Time Fixers, where the past holds the key to saving the future.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Fix the past, save your mom…and don’t fall for the enemy. 15-year-old sleuth Miles Hardy returns to quiet Frontier, Iowa—where cases are scarce and boredom runs deep. But when their mom’s mental health rapidly declines and she’s placed in a care facility, Miles and Simon make an impossible choice to travel back to 1999 to rewrite her fate. But the mission takes a dangerous twist when they discover their grandfather is working for the same ruthless corporation that once hunted the time machine—and he’s still after it. https://wisewolfbooks.com/2025/04/time-fixers-miles-in-time-book-2-by-lee-matthew-goldberg Book cover for Miles In Time by Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social (Wise Wolf Books). Solve the mystery, save the future… 14-year-old Miles Hardy spends most of his time as an amateur Sherlock Holmes and running his detective agency with his good friend and loyal assistant, Kevin. However, in sleepy Frontier, Iowa, it’s been hard to snag a case bigger than finding some old lady’s missing cat—until Miles’ genius older brother, Simon the inventor, winds up dead. Using his knack for uncovering hidden truths, Miles stumbles upon a secret lab where his late brother created a groundbreaking time machine. Among the discoveries is a chilling video Simon recorded before his death, revealing his fear of being followed and a dire warning: if anything happens to him, Miles must use the time machine to uncover who is after the invention and stop them. The stakes couldn’t be higher—if the device falls into the wrong hands, the future itself could be at risk. https://wisewolfbooks.com/2025/03/miles-in-time-miles-in-time-book-1-by-lee-matthew-goldberg‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Late in the day daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: two CBC Massey Lectures through @houseofanansi.bsky.social: @astra.bsky.social’s The Age of Insecurity & @alexneve.bsky.social’s Universal: houseofanansi.com/collections/...

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Book covers for two CBC Massey Lectures through House of Anansi: Astra Taylor’s The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (https://houseofanansi.com/collections/the-massey-lectures/products/the-age-of-insecurity) and Alex Neve’s Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World (https://houseofanansi.com/collections/the-massey-lectures/products/universal). In the former, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism—originate from a social order built on insecurity; in the latter, human rights activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International Canada Alex Neve investigates where we went wrong, how we have progressed, and what we can do to fulfill the promise that human rights are inherent, inalienable, and applicable to all people. Massey Lectures series: https://houseofanansi.com/collections/the-massey-lectures
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Just received in the post: my poem “Signal Flares” is in this issue. #BlueUnicorn #poetry #poetrycommunity
The cover of Blue Unicorn's Fall 2025 issue, with the figure of a person made out of land watching the figure of a unicorn made out of clouds and stars.
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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and 6/6... Fierce Voice by @suecurrie24.bsky.social (@commondeerpress.bsky.social): www.commondeerpress.com/books-1/fier... & Songs of No Provenance by @lydiconklin.bsky.social (@catapultbooks.bsky.social): books.catapult.co/books/songs-...

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Book cover for Songs of No Provenance by Lydi Conklin (Catapult). Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage that she fears will doom her career. Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she’s forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking—and her complicated history with a friend and mentee—while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member. https://books.catapult.co/books/songs-of-no-provenance/ Book cover for Fierce Voice by Susan Currie (Common Deer Press). Iz has everything she's ever wanted: she’s found the foster home of her dreams and is attending the prestigious music school she moved heaven and earth to get into. But secrets from her past keep threatening to spill into the present, and Iz is sure that her newfound loved ones will abandon her if they learn of her terrible history. Fierce Voice is the sequel to the White Pine Award nominee Iz the Apocaylpse. https://www.commondeerpress.com/books-1/fierce-voice
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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5/6... Eros and Revolution by George Katsiaficas (Black Rose Books): blackrosebooks.com/collections/... & The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk (@biblioasis.bsky.social): www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction...

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Book cover for The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk (Biblioasis): On a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s, a young girl copes with the heavy cost of migration. When her mother emigrates to England to find work, Wheeler and her older sisters are left to live with their aunts and cousins. She spends most days with her cousin Donelle, knocking about their island community. They know they must address their elders properly and change their shoes after church. And during the long, quiet weeks of Lent, when the absent sound of the radio seems to follow them down the road, they look forward to kite season. But Donelle is just a child, too, and though her sisters look after her with varying levels of patience, Wheeler couldn’t feel more alone. Everyone tells her that soon her mother will send for her, but how much longer will it be? And as she does her best to navigate the tensions between her aunts, why does it feel like there’s no one looking out for her at all? Shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction. https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/novel/the-pages-of-the-sea/ Book cover for Eros and Revolution by George Katsiaficas (Black Rose Books): Tying his intellectual concerns to social movements in South Korea, Germany and dozens of countries, historian and social theorist George Katsiaficas traces the evolution of history from the global eruption of 1968 and the Black Panther Party to the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and Occupy Wall Street. His theory of the Eros effect helps us to understand social movements as a logical unfolding of the practice of thousands if not millions of people as they rise up to change their lives. https://blackrosebooks.com/collections/new-forthcoming/products/b-eros-and-revolution-b-br-george-katsiaficas-br-pre-order
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM