Have to say it feels pretty cool. Grateful to Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social and congrats to him on his new book of essays with @palimpsestpress.bsky.social! I also noticed some reviews of work by my peers like @peterbcounter.com in here. 👀
Alex Boyd
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The Least Important Man (poems), Army of the Brave and Accidental (a novel), Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life. https://boydwords.wordpress.com
#amreading Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis and already in the first chapter some brilliant description. Someone saying they find insects disturbing because "they are like French locomotives -- they have all the works on the outside." #CSLewis
@alexboydwriter.bsky.social's TAKE THIS FOR THE PAIN (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social) pulls from twenty-five years of essays, articles, and reviews to explore how art and culture can reinforce ideas of identity and promote social change. Read an excerpt from the book at alllitup.ca/excerpted-ta...
“This just in,” says 680 News radio, “Toronto’s air quality today is the worst in the world” 😬
Read an excerpt from TAKE THIS FOR THE PAIN (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social), the fascinating new essay collection by Alex Boyd! #AmReading #Nonfiction #Essays #CanLit open-book.ca/News/Read-an...
Read an Excerpt from TAKE THIS FOR THE PAIN, the Fascinating New Essay Collection by Alex Boyd
Art has a way of turning up in unexpected places, and Take this for the Pain (Palimpsest Press) follows those moments wherever they lead. Drawing on ...
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#amreading Rites of Passage, set on an early 19th century sailing ship, with delightful lines like this: "He left me then with as courteous an inclination of the head as you would expect from a man leaning like the pitch of a roof." William Golding, winner of the 1980 Booker Prize. #fiction
It was fun to do the Shane Hewitt show and chat about writing, memorable jobs, Orwell and life in general, including my new book Take This for the Pain. #essays #amwriting shanehewitt.ca/new-just-wri...
Alex Boyd’s essay collection, Take This for the Pain (Palimpsest Press, 2026), received a brilliant review in Hippocampus Magazine by writer, scholar, and narrative medicine leader Renée K. Nicholson. Read full review: www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/revi... @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
#amreading My Autobiography, Charles Chaplin. Did not expect the best (in my opinion) early filmmaker to also be a good writer, but he has an eye for the most salient details and can pull off impressive description. So far, so fascinating. #books #Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin in The Lion's Cage
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"This new novel by Anakana Schofield is her most inventive, funniest, and boldest yet--a political and philosophical work that expands our expectations of the novel form and presents a gloriously absurdist blueprint for resistance to the inhumane march of "progress."..."
Grateful to @anotherstoryto.bsky.social for hosting the launch of Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life earlier in the month, and they still have copies! #essays #books
Here's an interview with the good people at On Creative Writing in which I generally go on about Orwell and my new personal essay collection Take This for the Pain. #essays #writing cc: @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social www.oncreativewriting.com/post/alex-bo...
Alex Boyd on modeling Orwell's clear, accessible style in writing
In this interview, author Alex Boyd discusses his new essay collection, Take This for the Pain. Inspired by George Orwell’s clear, accessible style, Boyd reflects on his diverse reading habits—champio...
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Take a peek at the launch of Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life by Alex Boyd, released with Palimpsest Press. Big love to Another Story Bookshop in Toronto for hosting! Learn more: palimpsestpress.ca/books/take-t... 🫶🏼 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #nonfiction
A review of Take This for the Pain: "It’s generously offered, without ceremony and without overclaiming its own significance: take this for the pain because, even though it won’t fix what ails you, it helps." www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/revi...
REVIEW: Take This For the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life by Alex Boyd | Hippocampus Magazine
"...[Alex Boyd 's] book **is** the art and life of writing, and understanding it that way changes what you expect from it." - reviewer Renée K. Nicholson
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Well, that was a good night yesterday! A pleasure to launch Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life chatting with Jim Johnstone of Palimpsest Press at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social
Tonight! Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life launches at 7pm, Another Story Bookshop on Roncesvalles. Looking forward to a chat with Jim Johnstone of @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
The Canadian Griffin Prize is reinstated! I am so pleased! Thanks to everyone who rallied behind Canadian poets, and to the Griffin Trust for hearing us. griffinpoetryprize.com/press/2026-a...
Had a very pleasant chat with Joseph Planta over at The Commentary about my new book of essays Take This for the Pain. He always has good questions. You can have a listen here: thecommentary.ca/ontheline/24...
On Air Radio Broadcast
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Hassan Kanafani is the pseudonym for a Palestinian writer whose firsthand account of living in Gaza, Pizza Before We Die, is now out with @arsenalpulp.bsky.social. . Find it, order it, from any bookstore in Canada. With gratitude to Yasuko Thanh for her role in getting this book published.
"At the bottom of Portsea's Cheviot Bay in Victoria is a sunken gravestone for Harold Holt, the missing, presumed drowned former Prime Minister of Australia." -- from Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies, Dani Netherclift. @pressassembly.bsky.social #amreading
Published my first essay in the Globe and Mail in 1999 and thought "That was fun, but I'll write another essay when I have a good idea for one." Here we are: a book on many meaningful subjects available for pre-order from @palimpsestpress.bsky.social palimpsestpress.ca/books/take-t...
TAKE THIS FOR THE PAIN, Alex Boyd - Palimpsest Press
A curious look at art and culture in a rapidly changing world. Pre-order Take this for the Pain now
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Love the cover of the new Penguin Deluxe Classics Wind in the Willows, and others in the series. #books #amreading
Here's a One Question Interview with Russell Thornton about choosing from nine previous collections for his new selected poems: Two Songs #writing #poems boydwords.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/o...
One Question Interview: Russell Thornton
Russell Thornton is a Canadian poet with nine poetry collections previous to Two Songs, Selected Poems (2026, Harbour Publishing) including previous titles shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize,…
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A reminder that if you had a new book published in Canada in 2025, the deadline to register new titles with PLR for 2027 is MAY 1, 2026. publiclendingright.ca
The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program
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Enjoyed Watership Down so much I may spend the rest of the year reading books and saying "Pretty good, but not enough rabbits." #amreading
a cartoon rabbit is sitting in a field with a horse in the background
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My review of Cannibal Rats, new poetry from Richard Greene: boydwords.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/c...
Cannibal Rats, Richard Greene
I don’t know who originally said that certain rare individuals might step over every body in a battlefield fo mourn the passing of a butterfly. At first glance it suggests a useless personali…
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My review of Cannibal Rats, new poetry from Richard Greene: boydwords.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/c...
Cannibal Rats, Richard Greene
I don’t know who originally said that certain rare individuals might step over every body in a battlefield fo mourn the passing of a butterfly. At first glance it suggests a useless personali…
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There were concerns reading was in decline 20 years ago, before the iPhone, when this review I wrote was posted to The Danforth Review #amreading boydwords.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/b...
Bookmark Now, Kevin Smokler (editor)
This review was originally posted to The Danforth Review in 2006, the year before the introduction of the iPhone. Editor Kevin Smokler explains in his introduction to Bookmark Now that the voices b…
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