Ace Theory: An Essay in Fragments About Asexuality by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social will be released on October 27 and is available now for preorder from our online shop or your local independent bookseller. Learn more: bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/f...

Ace Theory: An Essay in Fragments About Asexuality by Ryan Fitzpatrick | Book*hug Press

Current opinion always holds asexuality to be invisible. Hence the notion of a happy, gentle, jubilant asexuality is never to be found in any text. Where are we to read it, then? In this revelatory bo...

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The Most Anticipated Fall 2026 Nonfiction Preview is here from @49thshelf.bsky.social and we're delighted to see Ace Theory: An Essay in Fragments About Asexuality by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social in such great company! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/07...

Most Anticipated: Our 2026 Fall Nonfiction Preview · Blog Post · 49th Shelf

Nonfiction you'll be falling for in the second half of 2026. 

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the banff notebook : , eleven days in may (part five, / @banffcentre.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-banff-...

Doing my own version of the Sealey challenge this month where I try to read literally any poetry at all.

YouTube's offering up a 90 minute CBC documentary about "High School Confidential" by Rough Trade, and I got to admit I'm tempted.

@thetyee.ca has put out a list of local books to pick up for great summer reading. We’re thrilled to see two new Talonbooks titles named! Check out Growing My Way Home by @raveonstudio.bsky.social, ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn, and all of The Tyee's recs. thetyee.ca/Presents/202...

Eight Local Books to Upgrade Your Summer Reading List | The Tyee

A curated booklist to suit varied seasonal whims.

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Can anyone think of any poets, poetry books, poems, etc. that engage with pet death? Asking for a friend.

My creative nonfiction/essay book Ace Theory comes out this fall with @bookhugpress.bsky.social and if you preorder now you can get 10% off using the code PREORDER10. bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/f...

I rode Calgary Transit yesterday and the robot voice at the LRT station said "Giddy up!" My soul started to leave my body at that moment.

I'm so excited for this book!

Ryan Fitzpatrick@ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 4w ago

My creative nonfiction/essay book Ace Theory comes out this fall with @bookhugpress.bsky.social and if you preorder now you can get 10% off using the code PREORDER10. bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/f...

happy thirty-third birthday sale, above/ground press! , in which an anniversary begins to be celebrated, / @meetthepresses.bsky.social @montrealprize.bsky.social @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/happy-thir...

My creative nonfiction/essay book Ace Theory comes out this fall with @bookhugpress.bsky.social and if you preorder now you can get 10% off using the code PREORDER10. bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/f...

Just got my first whiff of wildfire smoke this year. Happy summer, Calgary!

Now available for preorder, arriving in warehouse 10/02/2026: dukeupress.edu/content-mach... Duke UP gave me a discount code for 30% off paperback preorders: it's E26CNTNT ♥️👍

Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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"What does it mean to be a dad, anyway?" Jordan Abel talks all things DAD ERA with @mattearoach.bsky.social on CBC's Bookends: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Heidi Greco pens a review of Pearl, the final collection by Canada's first Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Bowering in BC BookWorld! Read the complete piece on page 28. @bcbooklook.bsky.social #poetry #CanLit #BookSky💙📚 abcbookworld.com/wp-content/u...

Vancouver Poet Laureate @eleekg.bsky.social will be launching "sometimes, forest" at @shelflifebooks.bsky.social tonight at 7 PM. @nikkireimer.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @sjonespoet.bsky.social and I will be reading briefly, in support. Hope to see you there!

Book Launch: sometimes, forest Shelf Life Books June 16, 7:00 PM Elee Kraljii Gardiner launches her new book of poetry, sometimes, forest, a “hylofeminist”  work exploring how our bodies and those of the ecosystems around us are permeated and interwoven.

New review! @melanie-b-f.bsky.social writes a lovely, thoughtful piece about Save Your Prayers – Send Money by @jkirton.bsky.social in the @winnipegfreepress.com. #Booksky💙📚 www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...

Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University - Working Mass

By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...

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Currently double checking quotes in my book that come from important theorizations about asexuality, like this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW0b...

Sesame Street - Bert sings "That's Love"

YouTube video by MarshalGrover

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June is Indigenous History Month! If you want to mark the occasion with a book, we’ve put together a reading list of some truly excellent titles that range from personal to public, funny to unsettling, and deep to the whimsical. talonbooks.com/news/indigen...

Very interested in this upcoming book!

Coach House Books@coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Essays exploring the architectural, cultural, political, and economic perspectives that make Calgary unique. Nowtown: chbooks.com/Books/N/Nowt...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; , some further above/ground press author activity, (if you'll have it, / @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social @whatisapoem.bsky.social @jordandavis.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/once-more-...

George Bowering, Pearl / @talonbooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/05/geor...

George Bowering, Pearl

Years He was the boy watching his mother pairing a big apple at the kitchen sink, trying to release the peel in one piece.  A year o...

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Calgary friends! On June 11, Lisa Martin reads from NIGHTHAWKS, her new collection, in the Single Onion poetry reading series, alongside Skylar Kay and Adriana Oniță. https://bit.ly/3MCQyyU

I got a terrifyingly precise AI scam email this morning that made me wonder where the LLM was drawing its ideas from. The email ends by asking: "Would you be interested in seeing the specific discoverability and reader-friction patterns I noticed around the book’s current ecosystem behavior?"

unidentified fiction remains and the true nature of banff / @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @ualberta.bsky.social @banffcentre.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/05/unid...

unidentified fiction remains and the true nature of banff

I recently spent a week at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity as part of celebrating the University of Alberta's Writer-in-Residence 5...

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One week until this evening of poetry at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social! On May 28, enjoy poetry readings from four poets with deep ties to Alberta. Catch @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social, @scottjackshaw.bsky.social, Jun-Long Lee, and Jason Purcell sharing work from their new #books. www.audreys.ca/events

I'm sorry, but in no way should it be spelled "vegging."