This is wild. There is now a Terry Punchout book trailer illustrated by @brianbeleafs.bsky.social. tylerhellard.com/2026/04/07/c...

Vote for your Canada Reads 2026 book. You could help break a Day One tie | CBC Books If there is a five-way tie on Day One of Canada Reads, this survey will be used to help break the tie.

I'm going to be on CBC's Canada Reads in less than a week! In the event of a tie, I'll need your vote. Vote for Searching For Terry Punchout here: www.cbc.ca/books/canada...

Don't touch that dial: Future of Canada's campus radio stations in doubt Elke Sorensen was in her second year at Vancouver Island University when she first got involved with the campus-community radio station — an experience that may soon become less common. After spending...

I got my start in campus radio — @cjsfradio.bsky.social at SFU — just having fun and spinning tunes. Places like that like CITR, CHLY, and CIVL — and Co-op Radio too — should be celebrated and supported. vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/05/d...

A graphic featuring the top 50 independently published books Canadian's borrowed in March 2026. The top 10 books are represented by their covers, followed by a list of books 11–50.

With the help of BookNet Canada's #librarydata, here are the 50 books from indie lit publishers Canadians borrowed most in March 2026. Feat. a top 10 from: @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, @invisibooks.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, & @cormorantbooks.bsky.social.

Artemis Took A Picture Of Us | Defector Artemis II is headed for the Moon; it quite literally cannot not go to the Moon, now. After a trans-lunar injection burn Thursday evening, there physically is not enough fuel on the spacecraft to do…

"Our home appears both impossibly fragile and strangely robust."

Cover to the Better than Ezra single for “Good”

Thirty-one years ago today, the New Orleans-based alternative rock band Better than Ezra released its hit single “Good,” marking the first-ever Good Friday, which has now grown into a major holiday celebrated throughout the world.

It was so great to see lots of people out for the CBC Mainstreet #CanadaReads event at the Truro Library yesterday! And thank you to Tyler Hellard for coming into the store today to sign books! I still have copies of all the Canada Reads books if you haven't gotten yours yet! 🍁📚🦆

Donate — Skipping Stone With your support, Skipping Stone leads the way in providing affirming care to trans and gender diverse youth, adults, and families.

If you'd like to do more than a shoutout on this Trans Day of Visibility, here's the donation page for @skippingstone.ca, an Alberta charity doing vital work to protect trans kids in the province whose government is most openly attacking their basic human and civil rights www.skippingstone.ca/donate

Pencil drawing of Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five was published on this date in 1969.

DJ Dan, influential US house producer, dies aged 57 "He leaves behind not just a discography, but a culture – a way of feeling music that touched millions of souls across four decades and five continents."

I once watched Dan cry after a shot of 151 and then ask for another, and then he told us who really killed Rick James (but swore us to secrecy). A really fun, sweet guy. djmag.com/news/dj-dan-...

A dream come true to be published in the Roxane Gay–era Rumpus!

photo image of 5 diverse people seated on a metal stage of a bridge, suspended in air over a city of books below. They are smiling and each holding up a book. 2 men and 3 women. on a blue background, with text - 25 years, CBC Canada Reads 2026, April 13-16, join us. One Book to Build Bridges.

Join us for #CanadaReads2026! 📚️
April 13-16, 2026

One Book to Build Bridges!
Read the books, and choose your champion. 📚️
Who do you think will win this year? ...they are all great books, it's so hard to decide.
www.parl.ns.ca

@cbcbooks @cbc

The Death of a Superman - Believer Magazine The last night of Superman’s life came on a balmy Friday in Los Angeles, California. It should have been just like any other night for Christopher Dennis. Blue-eyed, standing six foot five, and bearin...

This report by @paulcollins.bsky.social in @thebeliever.net is a sad but startling wonder, simultaneously a work of muckraking—the overlooked problem of “bin death” & what can be done—& brilliantly made documentary art. www.thebeliever.net/the-death-of...

A graphic labelled "if you liked...try..." with a person holding the book Searching for Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard. A red dotted line connects the book to another book Hides by Rod Moody-Corbett.

If you liked Tyler Hellard's SEARCHING FOR TERRY PUNCHOUT, try Rod Moody-Corbett's screamingly funny and heartbreakingly sad novel, HIDES.

An All Lit Up graphic for CBC Canada Reads 2026 featuring five contenders standing side by side, each holding a book. Above them reads “Follow-Up Reads for the 2026 CBC Canada Reads Contenders.” Dotted red arrows connect each person to a corresponding follow-up book cover displayed around them.

You know we love a good #CanadaReads debate, and we can't wait to see how it all plays out. For now, we're getting excited with follow-up reads from independent Canadian publishers, naturally. Check them out!

alllitup.ca/ready-to-can...

Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, comic book writer, artist, painter and publisher, has died at the age of 63 #RIP Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, comic book writer, artist, painter and publisher, has died at the age of 63

Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, comic book writer, artist, painter and publisher, has died at the age of 63 #RIP

It’s a big day for the book listeners! Two of our hottest books of the last couple years are now available wherever you find audiobooks:

🎙️ All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H. (narrated by Angel B.H. herself)

🎙️ Searching for Terry Punchout by @tylerhellard.com (narrated by Chai Valladares)

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

BuzzFeed dying after chasing profits into a sinkhole vs. Gawker getting killed for challenging entrenched power is the perfect conclusion to the 2010s content philosophy wars.

I love NS arts & culture. We have such a vibrant, tireless community and it deserves so much better from this government

If you’re within earshot of CBC, pretty good chance I’ll be on your afternoon show today.

Don DeLillo's Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won't Acknowledge | Defector The end of the 1970s seemed to be a moment of uncertainty for Don DeLillo, creatively speaking. The previous decade had seen him become a rather important American author, enough so that he had left…

Don DeLillo’s funniest novel is a 1980 hockey sex romp he won’t acknowledge:

A blue and red poster featuring the cover of "Searching fro Terry Punchout: A Novel" by Tyler Hellard. It reads: "An Evening with Tyler Hellard: A reading and conversation with publisher Norm Nehmetallah. Picaroons Roundhouse, Fredericton, Thurs. 6PM–7:30PM. 19 March." There is a small insignia on the bottom right corner that reads "CBC Canada Reads 2026 Shortlist."

Friends in Fredericton, NB: Catch @tylerhellard.com and Invisible publisher Norm Nehmetallah in conversation at Picaroons on March 19. There will be beer, chicken wings, and surprisingly tender banter, we reckon.

Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

Really good deep dive on the terrible state of hip-hop media archives and what that means for culture writing today

Searching for Terry Punchout · Invisible Publishing A slapshot debut novel about hockey, heroes, and and how, despite our best efforts, nothing can save us from becoming our parents.

Oh, and "Searching for Terry Punchout" is now (finally!) available as an audiobook (performed by the talented Chai Valladares). You can get it direct from Invisible now, or wait another week or two and it'll be in all the usual places. invisiblepublishing.com/product/sear... #canadareads

Dangle and I will be in Truro on Mar. 18 talking books, hockey and Canada Reads with Jeff Douglas. Really looking forward to it. @thejeffdouglas.bsky.social @stevedangle20.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/cana… #canadareads

Canadian publishers, authors, & booksellers are united in calling on the Nova Scotia government to reinstate funding for publishers. A strong publishing sector supports local voices, culture, & the economy. Nova Scotia's stories deserve to be told. See the full media release here: buff.ly/fofkb9Y

Transgender People, “Gay Conversion,” and “Lesbian Extinction”: What the Data Show A couple days ago (on Christmas, actually), The Telegraph ran a piece with the provocative title: “Lesbians facing ‘extinction’ as…

since The Atlantic is apparently reviving the "a was a feminine gay child, but if I was a kid today they would have 'transed' me" trope, here's an essay I wrote back in 2020 explaining why this is not true & there is no evidence to support it: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...

Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid speaks out against N.S. arts cuts: ‘The arts are why I live in Nova Scotia’ Artists and arts-industry workers have issued warnings after the province axed $130-million in provincial grants

Nova Scotia - like every province in the country - should be reinforcing our cultural programs right now, not cutting them.

But, also, can you imagine how much Reid's going to be paying in income tax for 2025 and 2026? www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

An advertisement for the Festival of Literary Diversity featuring Tyler Hellard and his novel Searching for Terry Punchout, highlighting virtual and Brampton event dates.

Grateful to be invited to this year’s FOLD. thefoldcanada.org