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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 10h

In the mood for some great Canadian writing? Look no further: Best Canadian Essays, Poetry, and Stories have just arrived in office! 📚🍁

Selected by Brian Bethune, Mary Dalton, and Zsuzsi Gartner, these anthologies will be on shelves by November 18.

www.biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...

Photo: a cardboard box of copies of Best Canadian Essays, Best Canadian Poetry, and Best Canadian Stories facing upward. Each book has different variations of brown, light green, dark blue, and white covers.

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 15h

For #aluwomenaskingwomen, Zilla Jones and Elise Levine reflect on the art of writing women and explore how personal history shapes their new books THE WORLD SO WIDE (@cormorantbooks.bsky.social) and BIG OF YOU (@biblioasis.bsky.social).

alllitup.ca/women-asking-women-zilla-jones-elise-levine/

A graphic for All Lit Up’s Women Asking Women series. On the top left is Zilla Jones, a Black woman with shoulder-length curly hair and brown eyes. On the bottom right is Elise Levine, a light-skin-toned woman with brown hair down past her shoulders. Text on the graphic reads: “Women Asking Women (Writers Asking Writers). Zilla Jones and Elise Levine. Women’s History Month on ALU."

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 1d

The weather outside is grim and grey, but it's the perfect backdrop for the arrival of our spooky new set of Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories! 👻📚

Available for preorder now: www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction...

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 1d

Happy US pub day to Elise Levine's BIG OF YOU! www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction...

If you're in Baltimore or Washington, DC, you won't want to miss Elise Levine's upcoming launches! @eliselevine.bsky.social

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 1d

Get a first look at some of Seth's illustrations from this year's Christmas Ghost Stories, here in @reviewcanada.bsky.social's Bookworm No. 116!

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Bookworm, no. 116

Sophia Ohler reviews Nina Dunic’s “Suddenly Light.” Grace Henkel on “The Place of Objects.” Illustrations from Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories. Poetry by Selena Mercuri. Inside the October issue.

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day to Elaine Feeney's new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY!
The Booker-nominated author returns with a "gut-wrenching" (Publishers Weekly), "absorbing" (Kirkus), and "hugely satisfying" (The Guardian) multi-generational family story about grief, inheritance, trauma and tradwives.

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Mim @mimmcloughlin.bsky.social · Aug 23

wasn’t ready for the emotional punch of this, just beautiful by the brilliant @elainefeeney.bsky.social

cover of Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way by the brilliant Elaine Feeney
ready by the pool
loved it

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JustJillian @justjillian.bsky.social · 5d

This week's @librariesni.bsky.social Bookcited! podcast features @elainefeeney.bsky.social Feeney!
Elaine talks about her home turf, Athenry, and how to bring stories to life in her own way.
Clicknto listen www.podbean.com/ea/pb-nd4uk-...

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Sally T 🎞️ + 📺 + ⌨️ @sallyjaybee.bsky.social · 5d

So good!

Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 5d

An excerpt of Elaine Feeney's new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY on Lit Hub!
lithub.com/let-me-go-ma...

Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way

After Mother’s burial in a freakish sunshine that was followed by a violent purple hail, Brian and Conor filled in the grave with two long spades. They cast the black earth into the hole. Father wa…

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Sally Rudolf @wildsustenance.bsky.social · 2d

Please check out my review of Alice Chadwick's gorgeous debut novel @necessaryfiction.com!

#booksky
@biblioasis.bsky.social
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

DARK LIKE UNDER by Alice Chadwick (@biblioasis.bsky.social). Reviewed by @wildsustenance.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/dark...

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Tom Bowden @motnedwob.bsky.social · 5d

10 books for Halloween: The living and undead behaving badly—true crime, ghosts, Mothra, and more! #literatureintranslation @bookbeat.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social @fantagraphics.bsky.social @strangeports.com
www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

i arrogantly recommend #64

Tom Bowden literary column reviews small press titles.

www.thebookbeat.com

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Windsor group launch last night, including wonderful readers Mélikah Abdelmoumen, Don Gillmor, stephanie roberts, and Russell Smith!
If you missed the event, copies of their new books can still be purchased at biblioasis.com or at your local indie bookstore.

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 5d

New on The Bibliophile: An interview with Elaine Feeney on her new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY. Publishing next Tuesday, Oct 7!

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"In Ireland, history has a habit of lingering at the kitchen table, and for the O’Connors that’s definitely true."

Photo of the book "Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way" by Elaine Feeney, balancing on the corner of a wooden table. In white text over the image reads: "History is never truly in the past: Interviewing Elaine Feeney, author of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way."

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 5d

An excerpt of Elaine Feeney's new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY on Lit Hub!
lithub.com/let-me-go-ma...

Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way

After Mother’s burial in a freakish sunshine that was followed by a violent purple hail, Brian and Conor filled in the grave with two long spades. They cast the black earth into the hole. Father wa…

lithub.com

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indiebookstores.ca @indiebookstores.ca · 5d

Precarious is a nuanced examination of the disenfranchisement of foreign workers in Canada. Anyone interested in untold stories of those most impacted by fractured systems needs to read this one! Bookseller Callie Trautman from @shelflifebooks.bksy.social shared her thoughts on this selection.

Text Reads: In Precarious, Marcello Di Cintio sheds light on Canadian migrant work; the injustices that arise out of it, and the larger global systems that it feeds into. Di Cintio is both urgent and compassionate in the uncovering of often ignored injustices to one of Canada's most vulnerable communities. A must read.]

Bookseller: Callie Trautman from Shelf Life Books

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 5d

A "bleak, horny comedy" with an "undeniably stylish brutality"
—Emily M. Keeler on Russell Smith's new novel SELF CARE in the Globe and Mail: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Russell Smith’s Self Care puts incel behaviour and performative wokeness under the microscope

Satirical novel dives into the world of far-right online forums and liberal-coded circles to consider how social values chafe against each other

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 6d

The Booksellers’ List is Canada’s newest way to discover must-read books, chosen by the people who know them best—independent booksellers. The independent presses featured on the List this season are excited to team up and present you with: your favourite indie’s favourite indies!

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Biblioasis Bash in Toronto last night. It was a lovely evening of readings by Ira Wells, Russell Smith, Don Gillmor, Mélikah Abdelmoumen, and stephanie roberts.

If you're in Windsor, be sure to swing by WindsorEats at 7PM tonight (Oct. 2)!

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight in Windsor! 🥳

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Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 7d

The Booksellers’ List is Canada’s newest way to discover must-read books, chosen by the people who know them best—independent booksellers. The independent presses featured on the List this season are excited to team up and present you with ✨your favourite indie’s favourite indies✨

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 8d

Tomorrow! Featuring @mabdelmoumen.bsky.social, @ringtales.bsky.social, Russell Smith, Don Gillmor, and Ira Wells.

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 8d

“You can always count on Russell Smith for a straightforward technique that hits you in the solar plexus"

Read what Steven Beattie has to say on Russell Smith's new novel SELF CARE: www.shakespeareanrag.com/russell-smit...

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 9d

After visiting the Finnish Postal Museum over a decade ago, I have wanted to read a novel in a Nordic setting set in the 19th century about rural postal delivery - AND THIS BOOK EXISTS and I've just read it!!!

Volume 2 of the Heaven and Hell trilogy by Icelandic author Jón Kalman Stefánsson

R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 9d

Recommend a piece of art (any medium) that's not yours that you've recently enjoyed or re-enjoyed. Just something you think might help someone else, cheer 'em up, escapism, w.e.

Just wondering. :)

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 20d

Graeme Macrae Burnet delves into the circumstances behind a shocking crime in this eerie tale.The author once again proves his mastery of moody psychological thrillers.

Benbecula by Graeme MacRae Burnet

Burnet (Case Study) delves into the circumstances behind a shocking crime in this eerie tale. In 1857 Scotland, 30-something nar...

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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 14d

Author friends, let Biblioasis know about your recent publications. They're starting to work on the 2025 Best Canadian Series, which are always fabulous books.

Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 14d

Best Canadian Series: CALL FOR 2025 JOURNAL ISSUES!

Every year, Biblioasis publishes Best Canadian Poetry, Best Canadian Essays, and Best Canadian Stories, anthologies which feature works that were published in magazines/journals/online publications the previous year.

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