A fuzzy picture of interviewer Jessica Allen and author Yann Martel seated on a low raised stage with wood paneling behind them.

Author Olga Ravn stands in Type Books reading from the English translation of her book The Wax Child. There’s a bookshelf on the left and a red wall and ceiling behind her. She wears a rust coloured jacket, has curly hair, and is holding a microphone.

If you have the chance to see authors talk about their work, I highly recommend doing it. This week I was fortunate to see Yann Martel at Toronto Public Library and Olga Ravn at Type Books and both were fascinating. #booksky

Ye Olde Typewriter Fonte

(Rolled my eyes so hard I was looking out the wrong part of my progressive lenses)

The replies and quotes are great if you too are old enough to remember the listserv/BBS days…

Ugh just realized I misspelled the title. When my phone autocorrects things I don’t want corrected all the time, it couldn’t have fixed this????? It’s Transcription by Ben Lerner (obviously)

A white hand holds an ereader above a wooden floor. On the ereader is the cover of the book Transcription by Ben Lerner. The cover image shows a rock that’s the shape of a cell phone. The rock has cracks and the impression of fingerprints where you would hold it if it were a phone.

Happy pub day to Yranscription, a deeply thought-provoking book about the power and perils of technology, and how it’s replaced our trust in memory. I wrote about it over on IG. #booksky @fsgbooks.bsky.social

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I assume he wants that 50 miles in order to put the entire Great Lakes-St Lawrence within the US (which seems like something the article could mention)

I was fortunate to have already read four when the list was announced or I’d be nowhere near this. My favourites have been The Remembered Soldier, The Director, The Deserters, She Who Remains and I also liked Taiwan Travelogue and On Earth. I’ve got The Duke and Small Comfort still to read.

Oh I like this thread! I should probably get my act together to do something similar since I’ve only got two of the list left to read. What’s been your favourite so far?

A white hand holds a beige book with a drawing of what looks like a railway going into a circus tent. The title and author are in a handwriting script. The book is The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova (translated by Sash Dugdale).

Just started The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova about a writer in exile and so far, am enjoying it! #booksky @bookhugpress.bsky.social

Locked in to the WNBA Expansion draft. Let’s go @tempobasketball.bsky.social ! It’s going to get real!

I still pine for station wagon options. They hold lots but are car-height.

Thought of another one: FLAP Canada started as a grassroots effort to document bird strikes and their work has impacted building codes and more.

Begun in TDSB, I’m fairly sure, then became EcoSchools Ontario and now is EcoSchools Canada

Ecoschools Canada has provided the support and framework for a lot of positive change in schools from naturalization projects to sustainable practices

The news sucks but I’m very much appreciating the replies with callbacks to my favourite interaction ever from @weratedogs.com back on the old site

You can also put -ai at the end of any search and it eliminates the AI summary and goes right to the search results.

This explains why I, someone who usually loves winter, is so over it at this point

How about different streetcar numbers for food from those neighbourhoods

@bluejays.com Ahem, Toronto has ferries too, just saying

Seems like a good time to share pics from our visit to Wiarton this past September…

As always, a really intriguing longlist from @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social Eager to get to know more about these books.

How To Pronounce Tinnitus In English YouTube video by HearingTracker

I pronounce it tinn-eye-tus… but it did make me look this up:

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From the toronto community on Reddit: Complete power outage in the Beaches? Explore this post and more from the toronto community

Big #darkTO outage in the east end of the city (not me). Some very cool photos of the vast swathes of darkness in this reddit thread:

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That’s rough

Interesting article… my tinnitus started the same day as my first bout of COVID began. Throw in the disrupted sleep of menopause and it makes sense to me that they could be related.

The Province Took Over Ontario’s Biggest School Boards to Fix Their Finances. The Numbers Tell a Different Story | The Local Analysis by The Local shows Ontario’s largest boards receive some of the lowest per-pupil funding in the province—raising questions about whether the real problem is mismanagement or the funding formu...

“The fact that supervisors have not found easy savings is a sign, critics say, that the problem is not about how boards have been spending, but about their revenue,” writes @wencyleung.bsky.social. thelocal.to/ontario-scho...

Two days to go…

The 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist will be revealed at 2pm GMT this Wednesday 4 March.

Will we be seeing you there?

#WomensPrize #WomensPrizeforFiction

Taiwan Travelogue! What a great read about the slipperiness of language and translation, the insidiousness of colonisation.

Ooo timely…

Also, houses won’t become available for families when places like this don’t exist. People will stay in their homes long after kids are gone because they don’t have smaller, low-maintenance options to age in place in their communities.

I enjoyed both of those! And yes, the best thing about prize lists for me is being nudged towards reading things I mightn’t have known about or chosen on my own. It’s wholly changed my reading