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"'If you leave now, I'll kill us both,' she said."

In this week's miCRo, @babaklak considers the reverberations of violence across space and time.

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The cover for “Floating Notes” by Babak Lakghomi which features overlapping dark and light blue triangular shapes resembling mountains or waves.

Took a break from Solenoid last night/today and read @babaklak.bsky.social’s Floating Notes which was great.

The White Room by Babak Lakghomi — Terrazzo Editions Babak Lakghomi is the author of South (Dundurn Press, 2023) and Floating Notes (Tyrant Books, 2018). His writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, NOON, Electric Literature, Fence, Southwest Rev...

A new story up at the new literary magazine Terrazzo! Thanks to Gina Nutt

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Favourite 2024 reads

In five days! I’ll be reading with some greats! @ambersparks.bsky.social @babaklak.bsky.social

My Heresies, Alina Stefanescu — SARABANDE BOOKS Pre-order only. Available April 2025. Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, b...

Dear humans,
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
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Read Jody Chan’s Boycott Giller Speech On Monday night, the gala for the Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary award, took place at Toronto’s Park Hyatt hotel. The Giller Foundation has been dogged by controversy …

Read poet and organizer Jody Chan’s Giller Prize boycott speech: “Here, today, we throw our labour into the gears of the death machine.”

Forgive me for being late to and so continuing this trend. I really love these people, though (as well as many more of you whom it won't let me add)!

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Happy Birthday!!

A picture of a page at the end of an edition of Forever Valley by Marie Redonnet (translated by Jordan Stump). There’s an interview at the end of the book.

This is an interview with Marie Redonnet that appears at the end of this edition of Forever Valley (translated by Jordan Stump/UNP edition). In particular I’m drawn to:

“…a poetic power make visible that which has been neither described nor expressed by metaphor, but rather only evoked.”

From William Saroyan’s intro to his My Name is Aram

so far i like this place b/c it is gentle & nerdy ❤️ imagine a social media site where ppl are just talking about books.

Next books to read

Very much looking forward to it

Never intro'd self or announced my novel before, so why not. Novelist, book reviewer. Wrote a Taiwanese folk-horror novel, The Hell Screens. Second novel Daydreamers (see below) comes out July 2025 from Fiction Collective 2. There is a 25-year gap betweeen the two, which must be some kind of record.

CanLit Responds Over 20 authors pull work from the 2024 Giller Prize

join us in boycotting the giller until they drop sponsors complicit in genocide! www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller

Issue Eight (Omnibus) Reviewed in this issue: James Elkins, Weak in Comparison to Dreams (Unnamed Press) John Madera, Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press) Christina Tudor-Sideri, Schism Blue (Sublunary Editions) Babak Lakghomi...

Issue 8 of Unbeaten Paths is now available.
Reviewed in this issue:
James Elkins, Weak in Comparison to Dreams
John Madera, Nervosities
Christina Tudor-Sideri (@dreamsofbeing.bsky.social) Schism Blue
Babak Lakghomi (@babakl.bsky.social) South

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Little to See Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

A new story up at R&R Magazine! www.relegationbooks.com/article/litt...

10 out of 10 if you like hallucinating while reading a book

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Thank you, @babakl.bsky.social , and thank you, staff, wherever you are, for choosing BOX and SOUTH. 💙📦

Favourite 2023 reads!

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