Molly McCarron
@mccmolly.bsky.social
Writing, observations from the backyard
Website: http://linktr.ee/mollymccarron
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Website: http://linktr.ee/mollymccarron
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
I couldn’t even turn on the sound until the last strikeout.
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I couldn’t even turn on the sound until the last strikeout.
My dad died a month ago. Among his photos I found some he’d taken on the shoots of movies and TV he‘d worked on as a sound recordist/mixer — including some nice ones of the late Graham Greene while filming Clearcut, the 1991 indigenous horror movie that was featured at that year‘s TIFF.
September 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
My dad died a month ago. Among his photos I found some he’d taken on the shoots of movies and TV he‘d worked on as a sound recordist/mixer — including some nice ones of the late Graham Greene while filming Clearcut, the 1991 indigenous horror movie that was featured at that year‘s TIFF.
How did I get this far in life without knowing about "corn sweat" and its contribution to stifling humidity?
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
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Corn sweat will intensify a heat wave this week
Corn sweat and a heat dome will bring dangerous heat and humidity to the central United States this week.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
How did I get this far in life without knowing about "corn sweat" and its contribution to stifling humidity?
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Slightly regretting that I didn’t pick up this 1979 album from my neighbour’s lawn when I had the chance.
May 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Slightly regretting that I didn’t pick up this 1979 album from my neighbour’s lawn when I had the chance.
Saw a few movies at this space on Gerrard during its last revival as a cinema, including what ended up being a private viewing (me and spouse) of the great Turkish film Winter Sleep. Great to hear it's coming back to life as a music venue.
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
This Toronto theatre has lain dormant for years. Here’s why a young musician spent everything he had to revive it
Kinkade Davis plans to open the space, now called the Mercy on Gerrard, this spring.
www.thestar.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Saw a few movies at this space on Gerrard during its last revival as a cinema, including what ended up being a private viewing (me and spouse) of the great Turkish film Winter Sleep. Great to hear it's coming back to life as a music venue.
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
Thanks to @patrickcain.bsky.social for this great overview of the Don River naturalization project in Toronto Today - excited to learn some of the parkland will be open this summer: www.torontotoday.ca/local/enviro...
How a new waterfront park in Toronto was dug into existence
Inside the Don Mouth Naturalization Project — an engineering feat that re-routed a river and created a new shoreline park Torontonians can enjoy this summer
www.torontotoday.ca
February 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Thanks to @patrickcain.bsky.social for this great overview of the Don River naturalization project in Toronto Today - excited to learn some of the parkland will be open this summer: www.torontotoday.ca/local/enviro...
For no apparent reason when I slipped on ear buds on the way out the door for a frigid run early this morning they were streaming Renaissance polyphony off Apple Music. I was about to switch to a podcast when I realized it was, in fact, exactly what I needed to start this February day.
February 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
For no apparent reason when I slipped on ear buds on the way out the door for a frigid run early this morning they were streaming Renaissance polyphony off Apple Music. I was about to switch to a podcast when I realized it was, in fact, exactly what I needed to start this February day.
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Les Éboulements, Charlevoix County
A.Y. Jackson
1924
A.Y. Jackson
1924
January 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Les Éboulements, Charlevoix County
A.Y. Jackson
1924
A.Y. Jackson
1924
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Breakfast with Marmalade
Joseph Plaskett
1976
Joseph Plaskett
1976
January 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Breakfast with Marmalade
Joseph Plaskett
1976
Joseph Plaskett
1976
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North Shore, St Lawrence
Dr. Maurice Hall Haycock
1947
Dr. Maurice Hall Haycock
1947
January 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
North Shore, St Lawrence
Dr. Maurice Hall Haycock
1947
Dr. Maurice Hall Haycock
1947
My annual photo of books I read over the past year *and still have a copy of in my house*: a really odd stack this year of an early 20th C travelogue of Canada, War and Peace, Natalia Ginzburg, and a fascinating history of East Germany. I read a lot more fiction, too, not pictured!
January 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
My annual photo of books I read over the past year *and still have a copy of in my house*: a really odd stack this year of an early 20th C travelogue of Canada, War and Peace, Natalia Ginzburg, and a fascinating history of East Germany. I read a lot more fiction, too, not pictured!
Day 10 of the Clarion Advent Calendar in which we recap our long reads. After today’s council debate on congestion, here’s where we asked Oxfordshire County Council’s Andrew Gant to explain the thinking behind the council’s traffic policies: oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-traff...
Oxford traffic: the big picture
No issue in Oxfordshire is more fiercely contested than Oxford’s traffic. Most people agree it’s a problem – but not how to fix it.
Oxfordshire County Council, which is responsible for roads across c...
oxfordclarion.uk
December 28, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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"Ghost Apples" in the Fruit Ridge area of Kent County, Michigan - An unusual phenomenon when freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall, the apple turns mushy and eventually slips out, leaving the icy shell still hanging on the tree. ❄️🍏Photos by Andrew Sietsema 🤗 #folklore
December 21, 2024 at 9:32 AM
"Ghost Apples" in the Fruit Ridge area of Kent County, Michigan - An unusual phenomenon when freezing rain coats rotting apples before they fall, the apple turns mushy and eventually slips out, leaving the icy shell still hanging on the tree. ❄️🍏Photos by Andrew Sietsema 🤗 #folklore
Afternoon tea in the lobby of the Royal York hotel yesterday: more women, girls, glitter and sequins than I have ever seen, PLUS hockey fans on their way to the game, AND a huge number of men in kilts and women in gowns on their way to the St Andrew’s ball above = a fun Toronto evening.
November 17, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Afternoon tea in the lobby of the Royal York hotel yesterday: more women, girls, glitter and sequins than I have ever seen, PLUS hockey fans on their way to the game, AND a huge number of men in kilts and women in gowns on their way to the St Andrew’s ball above = a fun Toronto evening.
I have a short story out -- during Short Story Month, apparently, and just as everyone is thinking about short stories because of the loss of short story queen, Alice Munro. It's about being Canadian, cross-border travel, Latin vocab, and friendship:
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Fiction by Molly McCarron — Saranac Review
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May 15, 2024 at 10:09 PM
I have a short story out -- during Short Story Month, apparently, and just as everyone is thinking about short stories because of the loss of short story queen, Alice Munro. It's about being Canadian, cross-border travel, Latin vocab, and friendship:
saranacreview.org/issue19/fict...
saranacreview.org/issue19/fict...
What links bubble era Tokyo, one of the best comedy scenes in this century, and one of my favourite songs, in my latest Song of the Day (or week or month), which I should rebrand as The Fortnightly Song: mollymccarron.substack.com/p/listen-to-...
Listen to the girl
For relaxing times
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May 14, 2024 at 11:18 AM
What links bubble era Tokyo, one of the best comedy scenes in this century, and one of my favourite songs, in my latest Song of the Day (or week or month), which I should rebrand as The Fortnightly Song: mollymccarron.substack.com/p/listen-to-...
So proud of the @spacing.bsky.social gang, and especially of @dylanreid.bsky.social for his work as executive editor of this issue! A really great anniversary package that speaks to Toronto’s recent past, the present, and the future, and captures the best of the magazine.
We're very pleased to have been nominated for a National Magazine Award for Best Editorial Package, for our 20th anniversary issue! magazine-awards.com/en/2024nomin...
May 2, 2024 at 6:07 PM
So proud of the @spacing.bsky.social gang, and especially of @dylanreid.bsky.social for his work as executive editor of this issue! A really great anniversary package that speaks to Toronto’s recent past, the present, and the future, and captures the best of the magazine.
Liked this melancholy homecoming story by Rachel Sargent (only on the other place) in Gulf Coast (ditto) about how small events change everything: gulfcoastmag.org/online/36.2-...
What Comes After
I was twenty-seven when I saw him again, at a birthday party for my sister that uncomfortably straddled the line between our broke college years and some recently adopted bourgeois values. There were ...
gulfcoastmag.org
April 4, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Liked this melancholy homecoming story by Rachel Sargent (only on the other place) in Gulf Coast (ditto) about how small events change everything: gulfcoastmag.org/online/36.2-...
"I start with an emotion and then I try to find out what story can kind of accomodate that emotion" - from this great interview with Ling Ma.
The first of two new blog posts today is an interview with novelist, story writer, and former EPOCH editor Ling Ma, from current editor Mai Mageed. "It’s in the strangest experiences that I feel the most in my body."
Interview: Ling Ma — EPOCH
“I was thinking about him in terms of masculinity. I was working at Playboy
at the time, and it's a men's magazine, of course, so for every issue, we
would do these fashion spreads on icons like Ste...
www.epochliterary.com
March 30, 2024 at 3:11 AM
"I start with an emotion and then I try to find out what story can kind of accomodate that emotion" - from this great interview with Ling Ma.
In which I am discombobulated by the appearance of real spring in March, and write about a seasonally-appropriate jazz singer.
Spring awakening
The singer with a name out of a Roald Dahl novel
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March 8, 2024 at 12:35 PM
In which I am discombobulated by the appearance of real spring in March, and write about a seasonally-appropriate jazz singer.
While I wait for the snow to melt off the garden again…
"Flowers" - a bit of flash non-fiction by @mccmolly.bsky.social emergeliteraryjournal.com/flowers/
February 16, 2024 at 5:18 PM
While I wait for the snow to melt off the garden again…
Finally, my years of semi-successful gardening have made it into something I've written! Grateful to @emergejournal.bsky.social for publishing this piece:
emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu...
emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu...
Current Issue | Issue 29
Emerge Literary Journal: 2024 Editor's Note Some say the new year is a fresh start — a chance to look back and reflect on our past and a time to plan for our future. Walking into 2024 feels a bi...
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February 4, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Finally, my years of semi-successful gardening have made it into something I've written! Grateful to @emergejournal.bsky.social for publishing this piece:
emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu...
emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu...
Delighted to see one of my favourite podcasts, @backlisted.bsky.social, taking on The Stone Angel in their customary humorous, curious way. I was a latecomer to this book and had no idea it was so funny and cutting (as well as sad -- it has everything going on). A great discussion.
New episode up now. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence, with guest Lennie Goodings. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/203...
203. Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel — Backlisted
www.backlisted.fm
January 17, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Delighted to see one of my favourite podcasts, @backlisted.bsky.social, taking on The Stone Angel in their customary humorous, curious way. I was a latecomer to this book and had no idea it was so funny and cutting (as well as sad -- it has everything going on). A great discussion.