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When @nikkireimer reads books, these are the books that she reads. #microreview #booktweets #amreading

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“And my hurts are as constant and trivial as Lyn Hejinian’s” — Rosmarie Waldrop

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@jakebyrnewrites

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@ryanfitzpublic What did I miss?

[Talonbooks @Talonbooks]

Copies of Danielle LaFrance's “#postdildo” are available now! In “#postdildo” LaFrance thinks through the limitlessness and limitations of sexuality, communication, and desire.

https://t.co/J3Sqpq31XP

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— Danielle LaFrance, #postdildo

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"What is getting boiled again
+ again in an ass
+ in a forehead? In many cases I may lance or cut a boil to drain infection. Gently
but not too gently
excoriate an Elon Musk. You +
I judge genitalia's hard red lumpens. No not painful
no worries
a hard red lumpen prickles"

[Beautiful CanLit @ILoveCanLit]

MFAs should be fifty years long. That's what it takes to learn a craft like writing, or longer. If you die or drop out you weren't cut out for the fine arts.

[Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve]

"The art world likes hot young artists and it likes reviving older ones after a few decades in the wilderness, but it doesn’t, as a rule, favor artists between about the ages of forty and sixty."
- Martin Herbert, Tell Them I Said No

[Bianca Spence @biancaspence]

Annual reminder that each year, I watch the Grammys, Emmys, Oscars, etc. And every year when I see the "In Memoriam" segment, I am reminded that it is a union show. But our CanLit galas are full of bankers and TV celebs. Almost none of the folks who make books happen get invited.

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They may be mundane activities, but when they are lost or fundamentally altered, so is the very fabric of our lives."

— Leslie Kern, Gentrification is Inevitable and other lies

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"Changes to the social environment lead to disconnection, since it is the everyday activities we engage in that connect us most profoundly to place: the neighbour we wave to every day, the pub we have lunch in on Sundays, the chit-chat we make on the sidewalk at school drop-off.

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… One might say it has been gentrified, a claim one could also make about the neighbourhood surrounded by the parade route, the Church Street Gay Village."

— Leslie Kern, Gentrification is Inevitable and other lies

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"You do not need to be especially cynical to observe that Pride in cities like Toronto is a corporatized, money-making spectacle…

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"I'll laugh
until my last breath
because
obstacles
are punchlines
in my book of
how the fuck to live on earth"

— Charlie Petch, Why I Was Late

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"Decisions made in the chambers of city hall and the boardrooms of banks are shaping the on-the-ground realities of gentrification in ways that make it hard to pinpoint a villain, unless that villain is capitalism itself."

Leslie Kern, Gentrification is Inevitable and other lies

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"At what point does pain signal only itself?"

— Andrew Faulkner, Heady Bloom

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"A threshold of paper. Double-blind metaphor.
A veil is anything that gets in the way."

— Andrew Faulkner, Heady Bloom

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"Like kissing an angel.
A Xerox, a dizzy spell,
a pearl. In a forest of nostalgia

the nineties claw and wail.
Thom wants to get better
but doesn't know how."

— Andrew Faulkner, Heady Bloom

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"Is the sensation of being adrift grieving?

Why do I feel like I don't know how to grieve?

Do I think grieving is a way of getting past the sadness?

There is no getting past sadness. "

— Stuart Ross, The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

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@modernirish I’m just on page 34 but I already love it with my whole heart

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“I am talking about hamburgers instead of talking about grief.” — Stuart Ross