Jeff Miller
@theghostpine.bsky.social
Writer, reader, punk | MFA UBC | He/him
Novel: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, Spring 2026) Non-fiction: Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)
Novel: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, Spring 2026) Non-fiction: Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)
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Jeff Miller
@theghostpine.bsky.social
· Dec 15
For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill, TEMPORARY PALACES is a stunning debut that captures a generation caught between the dreams that define us and the compromises that save us. 🏚️
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
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Thirty(!) years ago tonight we were at the last show at 5 Arlington. Wow. Thanks to the old heads who shepherded this footage onto the internet. And rest in power to the one and only Mathieu Trudel, who filmed it youtu.be/kT7C1WtboJg?...
Shotmaker & Okara — Final Live Show at 5 Arlington, Ottawa (January 3, 1996)
YouTube video by P.M.S.G.
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Thirty(!) years ago tonight we were at the last show at 5 Arlington. Wow. Thanks to the old heads who shepherded this footage onto the internet. And rest in power to the one and only Mathieu Trudel, who filmed it youtu.be/kT7C1WtboJg?...
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it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much.
www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...
www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much.
www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...
www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...
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For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill, TEMPORARY PALACES is a stunning debut that captures a generation caught between the dreams that define us and the compromises that save us. 🏚️
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Excellent review of a recent book about a Paris squat @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Squats partout!
GIVE THEM SPACE! My review of PRECARIOUS LEASE by Jacqueline Feldman, just published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is up now @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social (bref: this is an excellent book) lareviewofbooks.org/article/give...
December 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Excellent review of a recent book about a Paris squat @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Squats partout!
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Perfect Saturday morning read. ☕️https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/drimonis-from-greece-to-greasy-spoon-a-chat-with-greenspots-co-owner
Drimonis: From Greece to greasy spoon — a chat with Greenspot's co-owner
Sharing a large apartment in the Mile End with other immigrant families to save money and eventually invest in something was the norm back then.
montrealgazette.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Perfect Saturday morning read. ☕️https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/drimonis-from-greece-to-greasy-spoon-a-chat-with-greenspots-co-owner
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Extremely excited for @theghostpine.bsky.social's Temporary Places, coming in April. Warm, insightful, relatable writing from one of the best humans I know.
For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill, TEMPORARY PALACES is a stunning debut that captures a generation caught between the dreams that define us and the compromises that save us. 🏚️
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Extremely excited for @theghostpine.bsky.social's Temporary Places, coming in April. Warm, insightful, relatable writing from one of the best humans I know.
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Wrote a newsletter about rebuilding a Walmart overnight, exhaustion, memories of home and the holidays, and why I think "Wonderful Christmastime" is good when heard in the right place.
We're here tonight, and that's enough
“Wonderful Christmastime” is not a perfect song. It might not work on your holiday playlist, or stand proud on a list of beloved classics, but it might be that it’s not a song to be played at home wit...
www.anxietyshark.ca
December 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Wrote a newsletter about rebuilding a Walmart overnight, exhaustion, memories of home and the holidays, and why I think "Wonderful Christmastime" is good when heard in the right place.
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so excited about this-- @theghostpine.bsky.social is one of my favourite writers, as well as one of the kindest people you could hope to know.
For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill, TEMPORARY PALACES is a stunning debut that captures a generation caught between the dreams that define us and the compromises that save us. 🏚️
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
so excited about this-- @theghostpine.bsky.social is one of my favourite writers, as well as one of the kindest people you could hope to know.
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read an early copy of this and really loved it, keep an eye on this one next year
For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill, TEMPORARY PALACES is a stunning debut that captures a generation caught between the dreams that define us and the compromises that save us. 🏚️
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
🔗 TEMPORARY PALACES by Jeff Miller publishes April 21st. Learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/tem...
December 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
read an early copy of this and really loved it, keep an eye on this one next year
I love 19th c literature but sometimes worry I don't know enough about horse carts to really get it
December 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I love 19th c literature but sometimes worry I don't know enough about horse carts to really get it
Happy Amazing there's a new Sam Lipsyte story in the @newyorker.com day to all who celebrate!!!
“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.”
www.newyorker.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Happy Amazing there's a new Sam Lipsyte story in the @newyorker.com day to all who celebrate!!!
In need of joy? Check out this powerful instrumental underground rock and feel alive again
Orcutt Shelley Miller, by Orcutt Shelley Miller
5 track album
orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In need of joy? Check out this powerful instrumental underground rock and feel alive again
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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
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
August 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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
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
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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...
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...
August 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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...
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...
Beautiful review of the reunion of one of the greatest bands of the 2010s. They made music perfect for hot sunny days like these
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
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Beautiful review of the reunion of one of the greatest bands of the 2010s. They made music perfect for hot sunny days like these
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Yesssss up on the website soon >:)
August 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Yesssss up on the website soon >:)
Heading to Sappyfest this weekend with a new issue of Ghost Pine zine, the first in a while!
August 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Heading to Sappyfest this weekend with a new issue of Ghost Pine zine, the first in a while!
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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
⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...
@internetarchiveca.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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
⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...
@internetarchiveca.bsky.social
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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 ☮︎
Hi! Here’s a little personal peek behind the curtain for you - I just got hit with a BIG tax bill that I was unprepared for.. Poor planning? Yes! Unreliable executive function skills? You bet! And so I have added a number of new things to Ye Olde Shoppe!
paulghammond.bigcartel.com
paulghammond.bigcartel.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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 ☮︎
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Buy some of @paulghammond.bsky.social's excellent work!
Hi! Here’s a little personal peek behind the curtain for you - I just got hit with a BIG tax bill that I was unprepared for.. Poor planning? Yes! Unreliable executive function skills? You bet! And so I have added a number of new things to Ye Olde Shoppe!
paulghammond.bigcartel.com
paulghammond.bigcartel.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Buy some of @paulghammond.bsky.social's excellent work!
RIP to the first place I bought nutritional yeast
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.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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
June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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
Sweet essay, with cameos from some of my all-time favourite novels
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.
macleans.ca
June 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Sweet essay, with cameos from some of my all-time favourite novels
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@wordsweaver.bsky.social on writing stories of African Black queer joy under oppression as an act of faith.
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 …
buff.ly
June 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@wordsweaver.bsky.social on writing stories of African Black queer joy under oppression as an act of faith.