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Jacob McArthur Mooney
@mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
520 followers 310 following 130 posts
Poems, jokes, and fiction.

Recently: Frank's Wing (poems, 2023).
Next: The Northern (novel, 2025).
Occasionally: The Beaverton, others.

https://mcarthurmooney.carrd.co/
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I have decided that my only goal for 2026 is to somehow throw the first pitch at a Blue Jays game on behalf of @thebeaverton.com. We can make it happen, friends. I believe in us.
November 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
Don't get your hopes up, Blue Jays fans, but rumour has it Shohei Ohtani is on a plane flying to the Rogers Centre today!
October 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
Ah yes, here's the October baseball I remember...
October 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
My wife reads endlessly but also has an impeccable numbers sense, and this means that she foregoes bookmarks. She just stops reading, downs the book, remembers she's on page 167. And pages 305 and 84 of her other two books-in-progress. One of the top eight or nine most astonishing things about her.
October 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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howl895fm.bsky.social
TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm - Host @valentinoassenza.bsky.social welcomes Ira Wells with his latest book “On Book Banning” @biblioasis.bsky.social - Also on the show Jacob McArthur Mooney @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social talking about his latest novel “The Northern” @ecwpress.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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jpmccullagh.bsky.social
I finally had the time to read this and it was really worthwhile. A character focussed coming of age story in the world of low level baseball and baseball cards. Dreams vs reality. It’s always fun to see #ldnont represented in a novel, even for a chapter. #booksky
mcarthurmooney.bsky.social Jacob McArthur Mooney @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social · Mar 1
Hi friends who are here!

I've digital ARCs (plus this one physical ARC) of my novel if you or someone else is interested. Baseball cards! Labour! Child endagerment! Book is out in all channels this May.

ecwpress.com/products/nor...
Advanced reading copy of The Northern, a novel.
August 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
Today's goodness is sponsored by my wife, who thrifted me this shirt someone made.
Me wearing a red and navy baseball shirt with a picture of Darryl Strawberry and the team name "The Sobbin' Strawberries"
August 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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zoewhittall.bsky.social
Why Writers Quit (or go crazy) Part 3
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Why Writers Quit (or go crazy) Part 3
Is it better to burn out, fade away, or become a life coach
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August 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
Today's read is from The Feeling Sonnets by Eugene Ostashevsky
22. Berlin is green. It is made up of old growth and new growth. A fire took place here, a conflagration. It's called conflagration because it started with flags. A flag is a mark. If there's a mark, there's a market. I come from the market, make dinner, and en- gage in struggle It is a struggle to get my daughters to sleep. They sleep on bunk beds The bunk beds are contemporary. They come from Ikea. They were transported by trucks. My daughters are transported. There is a herd of unicorns on the rug below them. They come from developing markets In markets that are already developed, philoso- phers say that unicorns do not exist.
August 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
Erev Yom Kippur and the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation share a date this year (Sept 30). The op-eds write themselves...
August 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Today's read is Zeroville by Steve Erickson, which is mostly about the movies but contains the best paragraph about punk music.
176. It was never the Music at all, it was always the Sound; and though there's no way for him to under- stand this, perhaps the Sound moves him now be- cause, a little more than twenty years after its birth, the Sound has become about itself, the Sound is about its own truth and corruption in the same way that, a little more than twenty years after the Movies found their sound, there was a wave of movies about the Movies: Sunset Boulevard, Singin' in the Rain, The Big Knife, The Bad and the Beautiful. When the Sound has circled to swallow its tail, it becomes a world of its own, god or no god, or in which Vikar is god--or in any event a god that kills fathers rather than sons.
August 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
from Existing Music, the new Nick Thran.
YOUR BIRTHDAY IS OUR BIRTHDAY Everyone remembers the nightmare of being born, the raging maelstrom of turning one and the emotional meat-grinder of turning two. Or the abject terror upon waking that first morning of our sixth year, peeling the curtains like some awful scab as parents' footsteps down the hall mix with that bone-chilling, barely whispered Happy Birthday song. It's terrifying, turning ten- so many vultures. And there's the dumpster fire of fourteen. The crocodile aquarium of twenty-one. The pain at twenty-five we must not name. And yet, I've said nothing at all of the ghost rave of thirty-three the quivering stem of fifty-eight, or even the lonely moonlit loon of seventy-five, out there on the dark water of the years to come, who calls and calls and calls. Happy birthday! As per uszh stay three metres away from the nearest balloon. Nobody ordered a sad clown but alas, he is here, hunched by the punch bowl, with bells on.
August 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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What a terrible time to have lungs.
August 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The most common refrain in the parenting social media ecosystem is "Schools should start teaching {thing that is already subject to 100+ curriculum hours in most public schools}"
August 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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readingwithcats.bsky.social
Audiobook Narrator Spotlight: Peter Outerbridge

Peter Outerbridge is one of my fave Canadian actors and I'm looking forward to listening to his narration of "The Northern" by @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social a #ReadTheNorth selection from the Toronto Public Library toronto.overdrive.com/media/11965360
Audiobook Cover: "The Northern" by Jacob McArthur Mooney Read by Peter Outerbridge Stylized image in orange and blue of a baseball player holding a bat . It is the summer of 1952 and three men — well, one man and two boys — are on a spiritual and commercial mission. Dispatched from Minnesota to Western Ontario, they have been hired by an upstart Mormon baseball card company to find licensees for their products among the young men filing out Korean War–era rosters in the Northern League, at the bottom-most rung of professional baseball. What the Northern has for them, and the secrets and deceptions they have for each other, will drive their two weeks in Canada into ever-growing chaos.
July 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Baseball fans: I have three indie-published Canadian books for you to spend time with this summer. #CanLit

The Northern by @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social from @ecwpress.bsky.social. ecwpress.com/products/nor...
The Northern: A Novel
A novel concerned with sports, labor, growing up, and God, The Northern is a funny and heartbreaking book about the series of disappointments that characterize the progress of growing up.
ecwpress.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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melves.bsky.social
Spoke to poet @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social about his novel The Northern ( @ecwpress.bsky.social ) for Turning Pages today. Episode is up now: umfm.com/programming/...
Turning Pages logo - open book with pages flared, next to cover of The Northern which features a stoic baseball player at bat
June 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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verybadllama.bsky.social
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
June 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Happy to have a poem called "Fields & Arenas" up at @bookninja.bsky.social 's famously minimalist New Poetry today.

newpoetry.ca/2025/06/09/f...
There is no calmer thought than a locked and trusted door. A room lit such that shadows cast elective patches on the walls you've hung with children's faces. Focus: the news is not your father. You can be bereaved and also hated But you were called to understand, not alliterate. You decorous asshole don't you count your dead? Remember: it's only gallows humor if it's you that's in the gallows Or if you own the gallows Or if you own the gallows, but it's also you that's in them. Wouldn't that be weird? The antidote to mourning is loneliness, friends We take it from each other.
June 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It is again that time of year when I have to suffer people using the word "graduand."
May 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Happy birthday to The Northern. Would be great to see friends and neighbours at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social tonight for books, beverages, and entertainment from myself, Lex, and @utilityofboredom.bsky.social .
May 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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utilityofboredom.bsky.social
I have events next week! I'll be in Toronto on Monday supporting @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social and Alexis von Konigslow as they launch their novels.

Details:

festivalofauthors.ca/event/toront...
Toronto Lit Up: The Northern - TIFA
Join us at Another Story Bookshop on May 26 for the launch of The Northern by Jacob McArthur Mooney (ECW Press). The author will be joined by Alexis von Konigslow and Andrew Forbes for readings. Toron...
festivalofauthors.ca
May 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
I am fully 100% onboard with unisex washrooms but I must ask for signage that tells me, when there are multiple options, which door can be relied on to lead to urinals, as I am a busy modern person and I have the capacity and desire to pee standing.
May 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
Referring to my kids' school mascot as "Trogdor" and he's looking at me like he's already shopping for rest homes.
Logo of the Davisville PS Dragons
May 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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I would like us to go back to using "outlandish" to mean "foreign."
May 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM