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Need to fill the next few days before the World Series starts? How about some baseball books from Canadian writers? 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #WorldSeries #CanLit
Books to Read at the World Series · Lists · 49th Shelf
Okay, Blue Jays! Let's play ball.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Storied poetry publisher Brick Books merges operations with upstart Assembly Press
In an attempt to secure financial stability in a tumultuous era for independent publishing houses, the publishers will share back-end operations while remaining editorial independence
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October 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Nothing like a Monday morning hard launch: Assembly Press and Brick Books are delighted to share the news that we are merging operations.

More details on our website!
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Phoebe Wang's most recent book is Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community, published by Assembly Press. Kirkus called it “a thoughtful, illuminating look at life away from land."

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Phoebe Wang
Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · 10/13/2025 · 31m
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October 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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To celebrate the Jays' ALDS win, @pressassembly.bsky.social is making Field Work available for 34% off the e-pub edition (1% per run the Jays scored on NYY). Not valid on print b/c Assembly isn't shipping rn in solidarity with striking Canada Post workers...

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Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living
Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew Forbes Baseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream—and for some, it’s also a…
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October 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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I'm so excited to annouce that Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century is now available for preorder from @pressassembly.bsky.social assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...
September 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Congratulations to the 2025 #GillerPrize longlist, including four LPG members: @pressassembly.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social & The Porcupine's Quill!
A graphic labelled 2025 Giller Prize longlist, LPG members. There are four book covers shown: The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh, Sugaring Off by Fanny Britt, An Admonishment of Stars by Kirti Bhadresa, and Still by Joanna Cockerline.
September 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏
"Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost."

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Telling My Lost Child the Story of His Life - Electric Literature
An excerpt from THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS by Susanna Crossman, recommended by Rachel Cantor
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September 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A story about a mother grieving the loss of her young son, and determined to tell him the story of his life. (@rachelcantor.bsky.social)
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September 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🇨🇦📚 Looking for Ontario-based publishers that do it all? From fiction, to non-fiction, to poetry, to drama, we've got you covered!📚🇨🇦 Part 1 of 4!

➡️ Featuring: @pressassembly.bsky.social, @biblioasis.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, Bookland Press, and @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

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August 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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laurab7.bsky.social
Field Work by @utilityofboredom.bsky.social from @pressassembly.bsky.social is a collection of essays from the writer of the excellent, Utility of Boredom, which I also highly recommend. assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...
Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living
Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew Forbes Baseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream—and for some, it’s also a…
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July 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Recently added to @netgalley.bsky.social: Property by Kate Cayley from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, and The Orange Notebooks by Susanna Crossman from @pressassembly.bsky.social!

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Property by Kate Cayley Available from Coach House Books, October 7, 2025 ISBN 9781552455074 Property is a modern, class-conscious Mrs. Dalloway set in Toronto. An unsettling novel that dissects common narratives of family and community, showing the fragile ties that hold us together. The Orange Notebooks by Susanna Crossman Available from Assembly Press, September 2, 2025 ISBN 9781998336197 Told through a mother's journals written while interned in a French psychiatric ward, The Orange Notebooks is a novel about love, and the lost language and rituals of mourning.
June 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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utilityofboredom.bsky.social
Holy heck do I love this review. Thanks @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social !!

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ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · Jun 22
Well, I loved every word of this. From Subway Sam to Shucks Pruett, this was a poetic guidepost in some uncertain, awful times. Really captured what I love about the game and y’know, being a human.

Thank you, @utilityofboredom.bsky.social!
Cover for Andrew Forbes’ book of baseball essays Field Work
June 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kevin Stebner / @pressassembly.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kevin Stebner
Kevin Stebner is an artist, poet and musician. He produces visual art using old videogame gear, and produces music and soundtracking with h...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Happy publication day to Bindu Suresh and The Road Between Us!

Have a listen to Bindu talking to with CBC Montreal about her episodic and poetic second novel: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
May 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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"I find the characters slowly define themselves [...]"

We had the pleasure of chatting with Bindu Suresh who talks to us about her new novel THE ROAD BETWEEN US, out today with @pressassembly.bsky.social.

alllitup.ca/characters-slowly-define-themselves-an-interview-with-bindu-suresh/
A photo of author Bindu Suresh with an inset photo of her book The Road Between Us. Bindu is a medium-skin-toned woman with long curly black hair and dark brown eyes. She is wearing a navy blue shirt with lace detail. She has a slight smile on her face.
May 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Acclaimed author Andrew Forbes explores the many interesting lives that are made around baseball in FIELD WORK: ON BASEBALL AND MAKING A LIVING (@pressassembly.bsky.social).
#AmReading #Nonfiction #Baseball #CanLit
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Acclaimed Author Andrew Forbes Explores the Many Interesting Lives that are Made Around Baseball in Field Work
The work of Andrew Forbes has featured on Open Book a number of times in recents years, and the versatility of the author's work is plain to see. From ...
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April 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I am over the moon to share the very happy news that my new novel, The Orange Notebooks, will be published by the excellent @pressassembly.bsky.social in September 2025. I feel privileged to work with this press & their team, & can't wait for US and Canadian readers to discover The Orange Notebooks.
April 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Who says there's no crying in baseball?
chestercat.bsky.social Catherine in Chester @chestercat.bsky.social · Apr 21
Thanks to Halifamous imaginary cheese festival organizer @kingsbookstore.bsky.social and UPS, my copy of Field Work just got delivered. Our mother would have loved this book, based on the first essay alone, (the inside baseball shout out to Moonlight Graham made me cry)
Front cover of a book with a baseball player with a blue cap and generic old fashioned white uniform. The words ANDREW FORBES are at the top with Field Work on baseball and making a living, at the bottom
April 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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utilityofboredom.bsky.social
Update!! Watch us gab on Facebook! facebook.com/events/s/sai...
Sailing, Baseball, and the Art of Storytelling: A Conversation with Phoebe Wang & Andrew Forbes
Other event by EveryLibrary on Wednesday, April 9 2025
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April 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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utilityofboredom.bsky.social
This is a wise, funny, and eye-opening collection of essays, and I'm looking forward to sharing a virtual panel with Phoebe tonight for @everylibrary.bsky.social . Sailing has more in common with baseball than I'd have thought. Lots to talk about! (I'll share the link when I have it.)
The cover of "Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community," by Phoebe Wang, featuring an illustration of a small sail craft backlit by the bright orange sun and leaning hard into the wind.
April 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Dag T. Straumsvåg, The Mountains of Kong: New & Selected Prose Poems, trans. Robert Hedin and Dag T. Straumsvåg / @pressassembly.bsky.social ;
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Dag T. Straumsvåg, The Mountains of Kong: New & Selected Prose Poems, trans. Robert Hedin and Dag T. Straumsvåg
DEBTS We owe Tomas and Elisabeth dinner. We owe my grandmother a visit to her grave. We owe my brother Christmas presents for the ...
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March 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Hoo boy was this ever made for me! Andrew Forbes is Canada's Baseball Spokesperson and the interest in labour history in his newest is so rich and complex. He's such a world builder too, you'll notice how well the book-length motifs work with the episodic essay topics. @utilityofboredom.bsky.social
Cover image of Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living by Andrew Forbes
April 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Hub Pruett, LHP, St. Louis Browns, 1922 (Photo by Charles M. Conlon). Pruett's story fascinated me, and pursuing it led me to write Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (April 15, @pressassembly.bsky.social).
January 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Holly Pester / @pressassembly.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Holly Pester
Holly Pester is a poet and writer. She has worked in sound art and performance, with original dramatic work on BBC Radio 4 and collaboratio...
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November 29, 2024 at 1:43 PM