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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 1d

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · Sep 3

Was going to say, great cover!

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · Jul 7

Excellent piece from @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · Jul 5

Really incredible episode here.

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Jul 5

This week on The World in Time, John Jeremiah Sullivan brings us a piece of writing by Mark Twain that scholars considered lost. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · Jun 30

Happy to! Great review!

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Ian LeTourneau @ianletourneau.bsky.social · Jun 14

Woohoo! Congrats Tamas!

National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social · Jun 14

The Gold award for Fiction goes to Tamas Dobozy for "Tea with Interpol," published in @fiddlehd.bsky.social

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · Jun 6

Or like the argument in the Eschaton scene in Infinite Jest: "It's snowing on the goddamn map, not the territory..." "It's only real-world snow if it's already in the scenario."

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · May 26

Amazing--congrats (preordered)!

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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · May 21

Went off about book recs again. open.substack.com/pub/christia...

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS ACHIEVE THEIR ULTIMATE FORM

By the algorithm for the algorithm

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · May 5

What DeLillo says, "If I discard a sentence I like, it’s almost as satisfying as keeping a sentence I like. I don’t think I’ve become ruthless or perverse—just a bit more willing to believe that nature will restore itself. The instinct to discard is finally a kind of faith."

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · May 1

Congrats to Tamas Dobozy and @fiddlehd.bsky.social on the NMA Fiction nomination.
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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Apr 21

Hey Calgary folks, @rodmoo.bsky.social is cooking up a reading May 1 at Pages with myself and Mark Anthony Jarman, a writer I’ve long admired. Come say hi! @biblioasis.bsky.social @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · Apr 17

New on The Bibliophile: An excerpt from Don Gillmor's ON OIL, which publishes this Tuesday. Plus, an opportunity to join Biblioasis as our sales coordinator!

digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/the-ghost-...

Square graphic: photo of seven copies of On Oil by Don Gillmor. Six are laid out in a square, showing the black back cover, while one copy face-up on top. Over the image in white text reads: The ghost in the machine: A excerpt from On Oil by Don Gillmor, plus a Biblioasis job opportunity.

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Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social · Apr 8

Issue 11 is live. Thank you to all who helped and the great writers and the translator featured. socratesonthebeach.com

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · Apr 7

Calling all poets! 📢

Our poetry manuscript submission period will open on Thursday May 1, and will remain open until Saturday May 31, or we reach two hundred submissions—whichever comes first.

Check out our submission guidelines for more details: www.biblioasis.com/biblioasis-2...

Square pale green graphic, with two horizontal darker green lines near the top and bottom. Text reads: Biblioasis Poetry Submissions, May 1 - May 31, Opening Soon! (with a hyperlink to the website, included in the main post).

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · Mar 30

Undersung Cronenberg and King adaptation, I feel.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Mar 20

Launch day! @rodmoo.bsky.social @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social

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Craftwork Podcast @craftworkpod.bsky.social · Mar 11

Also be sure to check out our previous episode, Character Case Files, Consecution, & the Acoustics of Language w/ @rodmoo.bsky.social!

tinyurl.com/CWS01E15

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Mar 9

Hey Calgary! Please join Rod Moody-Corbett and me for the launch of my new novel THE CRANE on Thursday March 20 at 7 pm at the legendary Plaza Theatre. Music by The Kennedy Brothers. Pages Books will be on hand to sell books. Cash bar and popcorn! @rodmoo.bsky.social @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · Mar 4

THE PASSENGER SEAT by Vijay Khurana is out today! A searing examination of male friendship and masculinity in an age of toxic loneliness, the NYT called it "unsettling and powerful" and the Literary Review of Canada said it "will both mesmerize and refuse comforting resolution."

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · Mar 3

Really wonderful review of my first novel here.

freefallmagazine.bsky.social @freefallmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 3

Check out the new Review of @rodmoo.bsky.social Hides and @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social by @VivianHansen. freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-ro...

Review of Rod Moody-Corbett's "Hides" | FreeFall Magazine

By Vivian Hansen Hides by Rod Moody-Corbett Breakwater Books (2024) He is unnamed. But he is well known to us. We have sat in his classroom, shared his

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Mar 1

For @nplusonemag.com, me on 17 Oscar-nominated movies and David Lynch: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Oil Paintings at the Dentist’s Office

I can only take so much messiah talk in science-fiction, especially when it’s coming from Javier Bardem and Timothée Chalamet, both of whom I generally like, but here all I could think about was that ...

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · Feb 24

...we’re experimenting with a tremendous number of new things, some will survive, others won’t, and whereas the Industrial Revolution led to a wasteful lifestyle, the Digital Revolution will prevent wastefulness by penalizing it...

Excellent new Krasznahorkai story in @yalereview.bsky.social

The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · Feb 24

On the three-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, read a new short story by László Krasznahorkai, plus an interview between the author and @harikunzru.bsky.social on facing the reality of our present moment.

yalereview.org/article/kras...

László Krasznahorkai: “An Angel Passed Above Us”

A short story by László Krasznahorkai: “I’m open to anything, he said, pushing the AK-74 a bit farther away and reaching under his bulletproof vest to…

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rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social · Feb 23

Love this book!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Feb 21

An ability to describe things in the world is a basic creative writing skill you can isolate to learn much as an artist learns by, say, sketching a bench or trees in a park. It requires sustained practice and it's easy to tell who hasn't done it.

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