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January 2025 Round-Up

• Happy new year, everyone! To start off 2025, I am happy to announce that my naughty chapbook with bedfellows will be released later in the fall. I'll update you with details, including pre-orders, as they come. Or you can sign up for bedfellows' newsletter and follow them on Bluesky as it appears they have migrated there from X.
  
  
• The second issue of The Vermin, featuring my essay on moshing, will have its launch on January 16th in Toronto. Deets and free tickets are available here.
  
  

Coming up:

• My essay on the ghosts of identity, nation states and languages, Chasing Ghosts, should be live with The Ex-Puritan next week so you'll have the link with my next update.
  
  

Notable Reads/Watches:

• The White Book by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith). A spare and striking work about grieving and the author's stillborn sister.
  
  
• Museum Visits by Éric Chevillard (translated by Daniel Levin Becker). This immensely readable collection of humourous micro essays is perfect for short commutes on public transit.
  
  
• Fight Like Hell: the Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly. Rather than a comprehensive overview of the Labour movement in the US, Fight focuses on the organizing efforts of more marginalized workers who are erased by the stereotype of white working class union men. Just come out to Labour Day in Toronto and you will see how diverse unions are.
  
  
• I can't believe I recommended May December last month and forgot to mention Last Summer which similarly features a sexual relationship between an older woman and a male minor. I'm doubly surprized because I think Last Summer may have been influenced by Constance Debré (?), whose books I also recommended!
  
  
• If you've enjoyed Charlie Kaufman's films (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, etc.), do consider A Different Man which has a similar loopy vibe, layers of repetition and refraction, a background score that manages to be both ominous yet whimsical, and questions about how much of our lives might be determined by the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
  
  
• Perfect Days is a quiet, sensitive work about a municipal custodial worker in Tokyo that's kind of like the cinematic equivalent of a healing balm.

Elsewhere:

Readers may want to check out Workshops4Gaza, a fundraising initiative providing necessary material support to Palestinians that's offering an amazing program of educational sessions, including many for writers. I took an informative cooking class with cookbook author, Laila El Haddad - all I had to do is fill out a Google form with a screenshot of the receipt for my donation. You can also donate a place for someone ♡