Another excellent issue from @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social:

socratesonthebeach.com

People are asking

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.

Love the last paragraph of Herzog.

Ha--indeed!

Incredible! Gass says (of finishing The Tunnel) "the last 600 pages of my manuscript, which was about 1,200 pages in typescript, were written in a year."

A starred Kirkus Review for Mark Anthony Jarman's forthcoming short story collection SMASH & GRAB! ⭐

Continuing to chronicle the lives of the wayward and unlucky, SMASH & GRAB confirms its author as one of the most adventurous guides to the absurdity of twenty-first century existence.

The Imposter | A review of “Days of Feasting and Rejoicing” by David Bergen | Literary Review of Canada Rod Moody-Corbett reviews “Days of Feasting and Rejoicing” by David Bergen, a Riplean novel about a murderer in Thailand.

Reviewed the new Bergen for @reviewcanada.bsky.social

reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

Bogart looks like Camus in above right.

Huge congrats!

Paper Bill Press Chapbooks for the Wild

still looking for #submissions to for chapbooks for this spring!!! each of our editors want slightly different things but I'm still really hoping to publish some #sff from #canadian writers.

Do hashtags work anymore even lmao it's been years

you can reach out on here or at paperbillpress@gmail.com

Really impressive story here from the first.

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

Was going to say, great cover!

Excellent piece from @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social

Really incredible episode here.

Happy to! Great review!

Woohoo! Congrats Tamas!

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."

Amazing--congrats (preordered)!

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS ACHIEVE THEIR ULTIMATE FORM By the algorithm for the algorithm

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

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."

Congrats to Tamas Dobozy and @fiddlehd.bsky.social on the NMA Fiction nomination.
nmafpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2021/7...

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

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.

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-...

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

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).

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...

Undersung Cronenberg and King adaptation, I feel.

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

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

tinyurl.com/CWS01E15