Alexander Saxton
@aewsaxton.bsky.social
Toronto-based writer. Credits for CBC, CTV. Multiple Canadian Screen Award Defeats. Runs ‘The Workbench’ writing workshop at the Toronto Writers’ Centre. Querying a fantasy novel. 1/3 of @thewrongstation.bsky.social
If you’re a #writer or other creative looking for a place to work quietly in the heart of #Toronto, the Toronto Writers Centre has just moved into lovely new digs at Bloor & Spadina. 250/mo, 24hr access, no kids, all the damn coffee you can drink. You won’t find a better deal on a desk in this town!
May 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If you’re a #writer or other creative looking for a place to work quietly in the heart of #Toronto, the Toronto Writers Centre has just moved into lovely new digs at Bloor & Spadina. 250/mo, 24hr access, no kids, all the damn coffee you can drink. You won’t find a better deal on a desk in this town!
Recently finished reading ‘As birds bring forth the sun—and other stories’ by Alistair MacLeod. Kicked my ass. Absolute belter. Total classic. Wall-to-wall. All killer no filler. Had me hooting and hollering. Everything people hate about Can-Lit—which is to say everything good about Can-Lit.
April 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Recently finished reading ‘As birds bring forth the sun—and other stories’ by Alistair MacLeod. Kicked my ass. Absolute belter. Total classic. Wall-to-wall. All killer no filler. Had me hooting and hollering. Everything people hate about Can-Lit—which is to say everything good about Can-Lit.
Just finished reading ‘the visitors’ (‘79) by Clifford Simak. Not unpleasant but not particularly interesting at first, this one turned into an unexpected banger for me in the last quarter.
April 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just finished reading ‘the visitors’ (‘79) by Clifford Simak. Not unpleasant but not particularly interesting at first, this one turned into an unexpected banger for me in the last quarter.
Some art I made for the Lore Book we do quarterly over at the @thewrongstation.bsky.social patreon. I think it's pretty radical, twisted, etc.
April 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Some art I made for the Lore Book we do quarterly over at the @thewrongstation.bsky.social patreon. I think it's pretty radical, twisted, etc.
PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR YOUNG WRITERS: forget grammar just get good at moving furniture because your coworking space WILL get priced out of its neighbourhood
April 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR YOUNG WRITERS: forget grammar just get good at moving furniture because your coworking space WILL get priced out of its neighbourhood
Very excited to have a story in this collection by @infestedpublishing.bsky.social ! It’s about an angel steering a meteor into the earth. I actually first wrote this one ~17 yrs ago. Back then it was about cosmic injustice. But these days I’m more of an apologist for The Cleansing Power of Fire.
April 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Very excited to have a story in this collection by @infestedpublishing.bsky.social ! It’s about an angel steering a meteor into the earth. I actually first wrote this one ~17 yrs ago. Back then it was about cosmic injustice. But these days I’m more of an apologist for The Cleansing Power of Fire.
Playing around with some designs for Wrong Station season 10. Went with a 10-triangle 'Tetractys' device because the roman numeral X has degenerate vibes these days
March 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Playing around with some designs for Wrong Station season 10. Went with a 10-triangle 'Tetractys' device because the roman numeral X has degenerate vibes these days
Just finished reading: Orsinian tales, by Ursula K. Leguin.
Beautiful, sad stories. UKL’s overlooked as a prose stylist; usually she’s pretty unassuming, but here she really lets it rip. Maybe the collection is best understood as a series of oil paintings.
Beautiful, sad stories. UKL’s overlooked as a prose stylist; usually she’s pretty unassuming, but here she really lets it rip. Maybe the collection is best understood as a series of oil paintings.
February 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just finished reading: Orsinian tales, by Ursula K. Leguin.
Beautiful, sad stories. UKL’s overlooked as a prose stylist; usually she’s pretty unassuming, but here she really lets it rip. Maybe the collection is best understood as a series of oil paintings.
Beautiful, sad stories. UKL’s overlooked as a prose stylist; usually she’s pretty unassuming, but here she really lets it rip. Maybe the collection is best understood as a series of oil paintings.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell x the Green Knight
Polycrisis Arthuriana. A young knight thinks he’s the next Lancelot. He’s not. He sets off to slay a dragon & fails. He flees through a haunted countryside. Finally the worst happens—he gets to become everything he once wanted to be
#2025Pit #A #F
Polycrisis Arthuriana. A young knight thinks he’s the next Lancelot. He’s not. He sets off to slay a dragon & fails. He flees through a haunted countryside. Finally the worst happens—he gets to become everything he once wanted to be
#2025Pit #A #F
January 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Just finished reading: ‘Red Shift’, by Alan Garner. I’m not sure if I liked this book, but it hit me full in the teeth. I remember being confused and unsettled by Garner’s kids books as a kid. They’re hazy in my mind; half-remembered, unsettling. This book felt that way while I was reading it.
January 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Just finished reading: ‘Red Shift’, by Alan Garner. I’m not sure if I liked this book, but it hit me full in the teeth. I remember being confused and unsettled by Garner’s kids books as a kid. They’re hazy in my mind; half-remembered, unsettling. This book felt that way while I was reading it.
Just finished reading; Solidarity, by @astra.bsky.social & @lhh.bsky.social This is a really important book, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s about politics and the history of an idea, but it’s a super easy read, and the clear prose lets the clear thinking shine through.
December 17, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Just finished reading; Solidarity, by @astra.bsky.social & @lhh.bsky.social This is a really important book, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s about politics and the history of an idea, but it’s a super easy read, and the clear prose lets the clear thinking shine through.
Recently finished: The Dragon Waiting, by John M. Ford. Went in with high expectations—people talk about it like it’s the Velvet Underground of fantasy novels— and there’s some undoubtedly cool stuff in here, but the book never really came together for me.
December 12, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Recently finished: The Dragon Waiting, by John M. Ford. Went in with high expectations—people talk about it like it’s the Velvet Underground of fantasy novels— and there’s some undoubtedly cool stuff in here, but the book never really came together for me.
Just finished ‘THE FEMALE MAN’ by Joanna Russ. A tough, challenging book; defiantly its own thing; extremely fun and funny; goes hard as fuck; prophetic; probably one of the most important books of the 20th century. I think a lot of people would find unreadable. I think everyone should read it.
December 9, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Just finished ‘THE FEMALE MAN’ by Joanna Russ. A tough, challenging book; defiantly its own thing; extremely fun and funny; goes hard as fuck; prophetic; probably one of the most important books of the 20th century. I think a lot of people would find unreadable. I think everyone should read it.
Just finished reading: MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury. Loved this book profoundly as a teenager—some parts of it hold up very badly; others extremely well. So clear on a re-read that this is a Book About America; about the excitement of the frontier, but its essential tragedy & evil.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Just finished reading: MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury. Loved this book profoundly as a teenager—some parts of it hold up very badly; others extremely well. So clear on a re-read that this is a Book About America; about the excitement of the frontier, but its essential tragedy & evil.
I read a lot of this genre as a kid, and coming back to it has been bittersweet. It’s fun (sea battles kick ass), but it’s a reactionary genre, & neither Aubrey’s mild meritocratic streak or Maturin’s vague liberalism really took the edge off that for me. Maybe I just need to read the next 20 books…
October 25, 2024 at 3:10 AM
I read a lot of this genre as a kid, and coming back to it has been bittersweet. It’s fun (sea battles kick ass), but it’s a reactionary genre, & neither Aubrey’s mild meritocratic streak or Maturin’s vague liberalism really took the edge off that for me. Maybe I just need to read the next 20 books…
Sometimes this city is a lot less evil than I think.
October 5, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Sometimes this city is a lot less evil than I think.
Just finished: Red X by @daviddemchuk.com. Lucid, elegant prose; a charismatic monster; a forthrightness about violence & sex that never feels exploitative. ‘Fun’ doesn’t seem right for a book so thoughtful, frightening & sad, but there’s a joy & energy to the storytelling that propels you forward.
October 4, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Just finished: Red X by @daviddemchuk.com. Lucid, elegant prose; a charismatic monster; a forthrightness about violence & sex that never feels exploitative. ‘Fun’ doesn’t seem right for a book so thoughtful, frightening & sad, but there’s a joy & energy to the storytelling that propels you forward.
From the same library & probably donor, another space libertarian parable. So much 20th c. Sci-fi ianticipates trumpism. Tales of local big men shaking off the shackles of centralizing institutions. States rights & the lost cause, with lasers.
October 2, 2024 at 7:43 PM
From the same library & probably donor, another space libertarian parable. So much 20th c. Sci-fi ianticipates trumpism. Tales of local big men shaking off the shackles of centralizing institutions. States rights & the lost cause, with lasers.
Spotted at the little free library… SPACE KKKOPS. Lots to unpack here. 1) thinly veiled anticommunist moral panic, 2) copaganda on Republican mars, 3) dbl white hetero male leads, one of whom seems to be a reincarnated medieval welsh king. STATUS: didn’t take home b/c I’m scared of Challenging Ideas
October 2, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Spotted at the little free library… SPACE KKKOPS. Lots to unpack here. 1) thinly veiled anticommunist moral panic, 2) copaganda on Republican mars, 3) dbl white hetero male leads, one of whom seems to be a reincarnated medieval welsh king. STATUS: didn’t take home b/c I’m scared of Challenging Ideas
Found this in the little free library. Now I am ready to enter—my mid thirties
September 28, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Found this in the little free library. Now I am ready to enter—my mid thirties
Recently finished: reread of the Golden Compass. Still exquisite, but now feels so much a product of the ‘90s—last flowering of a liberal optimism destroyed by neoconservatism’s triumph, and by the failures of Obama, Trudeau, etc. Pullman’s prose is superb. Clear water, but blazing fire when needed.
September 26, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Recently finished: reread of the Golden Compass. Still exquisite, but now feels so much a product of the ‘90s—last flowering of a liberal optimism destroyed by neoconservatism’s triumph, and by the failures of Obama, Trudeau, etc. Pullman’s prose is superb. Clear water, but blazing fire when needed.
Spouse bought this shirt & I’m worried it will give them too much Power in our relationship
September 25, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Spouse bought this shirt & I’m worried it will give them too much Power in our relationship
Just finished: Catherine Moore’s ‘Jirel of Joiry’ stories. Protofeminist 1930s Sword & Sorcery. Sometimes tough to read in 2024 because prose tastes have changed, & because despite the sword, Jirel’s plots tend to revolve around sexual jeopardy. 1 story in the collection, ‘Hellsgarde’ is excellent.
September 23, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Just finished: Catherine Moore’s ‘Jirel of Joiry’ stories. Protofeminist 1930s Sword & Sorcery. Sometimes tough to read in 2024 because prose tastes have changed, & because despite the sword, Jirel’s plots tend to revolve around sexual jeopardy. 1 story in the collection, ‘Hellsgarde’ is excellent.
Saw @astra.bsky.social give a talk on Solidarity at the Toronto Library yesterday; my partner and I talked about it the whole way home, feeling more excited about the possibility of a better world than we had in a long time. Really recommend Astra’s work if you’re feeling the pull of despair.
September 20, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Saw @astra.bsky.social give a talk on Solidarity at the Toronto Library yesterday; my partner and I talked about it the whole way home, feeling more excited about the possibility of a better world than we had in a long time. Really recommend Astra’s work if you’re feeling the pull of despair.
Just finished: The Dwarf. Maybe a perfect book, in that it accomplishes precisely what it sets out to. A really interesting ‘game’ to the text; trying to assess beautifully sketched characters through the dark lens of Piccoline’s gaze. RIP Don Riccardo, Party Boy #1– you died as you lived, partying
September 20, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Just finished: The Dwarf. Maybe a perfect book, in that it accomplishes precisely what it sets out to. A really interesting ‘game’ to the text; trying to assess beautifully sketched characters through the dark lens of Piccoline’s gaze. RIP Don Riccardo, Party Boy #1– you died as you lived, partying