Andrew Faulkner
@ahfaulkner.bsky.social
Owner/operator @pressassembly.bsky.social. Bookmaker. Poet. Editor.
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2026 is the 10th anniversary of my 1st book of baseball essays, The Utility of Boredom. I'm writing a preface to an anniversary edition that @invisibooks.bsky.social will publish in '26 and I’m struck by some parallels between this moment and 2015. 🧵1/
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 AM
2026 is the 10th anniversary of my 1st book of baseball essays, The Utility of Boredom. I'm writing a preface to an anniversary edition that @invisibooks.bsky.social will publish in '26 and I’m struck by some parallels between this moment and 2015. 🧵1/
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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.
49thshelf.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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
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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!
More details on our website!
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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!
More details on our website!
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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
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...
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this week during prime day sales take a moment and think about what you need, how quickly you need it, and where you might be able to get it in your community! It’s surprisingly easy to boycott the crummiest company on earth and there’s no shortage of great reasons to try start trying
July 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
this week during prime day sales take a moment and think about what you need, how quickly you need it, and where you might be able to get it in your community! It’s surprisingly easy to boycott the crummiest company on earth and there’s no shortage of great reasons to try start trying
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SAVE THE DATE!
I'd love it if you could join me
to celebrate the launch of
NMLCT: poems
Wed, Sept 24, 2025
at The Piston
937 Bloor Street West,
from 7 to 10pm
[festivities included]
Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch
I'd love it if you could join me
to celebrate the launch of
NMLCT: poems
Wed, Sept 24, 2025
at The Piston
937 Bloor Street West,
from 7 to 10pm
[festivities included]
Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch
June 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
SAVE THE DATE!
I'd love it if you could join me
to celebrate the launch of
NMLCT: poems
Wed, Sept 24, 2025
at The Piston
937 Bloor Street West,
from 7 to 10pm
[festivities included]
Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch
I'd love it if you could join me
to celebrate the launch of
NMLCT: poems
Wed, Sept 24, 2025
at The Piston
937 Bloor Street West,
from 7 to 10pm
[festivities included]
Sincerely, Paul Vermeersch
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We remain as committed as ever to promoting voices and perspectives that represent all facets of the human experience, in one's country, in one's language, and in one's body. If you're able to support our work with a donation, now is a critical time.
www.transitbooks.org/donate
www.transitbooks.org/donate
May 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We remain as committed as ever to promoting voices and perspectives that represent all facets of the human experience, in one's country, in one's language, and in one's body. If you're able to support our work with a donation, now is a critical time.
www.transitbooks.org/donate
www.transitbooks.org/donate
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Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.
May 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.
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Yes, this. My book is called Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living. It's about how a game some of us love for fun is also a job. And about a doctor who was really good at striking out Babe Ruth.
Thank you for your time, you may now resume doomscrolling.
assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...
Thank you for your time, you may now resume doomscrolling.
assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...
March 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Yes, this. My book is called Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living. It's about how a game some of us love for fun is also a job. And about a doctor who was really good at striking out Babe Ruth.
Thank you for your time, you may now resume doomscrolling.
assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...
Thank you for your time, you may now resume doomscrolling.
assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...
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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
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).
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A new Maggie Helwig book is a good thing, though wish she didn’t have to write this. A vital, righteous voice.
January 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A new Maggie Helwig book is a good thing, though wish she didn’t have to write this. A vital, righteous voice.
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The founding of Assembly Press, her ongoing love for her debut collection, and how the world of books has changed in the quarter-century since its publication - my conversation with author and publisher @nashls.bsky.social
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
January 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The founding of Assembly Press, her ongoing love for her debut collection, and how the world of books has changed in the quarter-century since its publication - my conversation with author and publisher @nashls.bsky.social
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
thewalrus.ca/podcasts/wha...
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I taught in CW&P as a PT instructor for years. My time there wasn't perfect (read: exploitation of sessionals), I'm saddened that management is cutting the program. The students were great, and the faculty I met were more than welcoming. CW&P has great potential: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
I’m Sheridan’s writer in residence. Here’s what the college will lose when it suspends a writing program
The loss of Sheridan College's creative writing and publishing program will have devastating consequences for Canadian literature.
www.thestar.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:32 PM
I taught in CW&P as a PT instructor for years. My time there wasn't perfect (read: exploitation of sessionals), I'm saddened that management is cutting the program. The students were great, and the faculty I met were more than welcoming. CW&P has great potential: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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i read One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and it’s incredibly powerful & should be read by everyone. In the interest of making the words of @omarelakkad available to as many people as possible, we’re taking pre-orders at 40% off at kingsbookstore.ca/oneday
November 18, 2024 at 7:07 PM
i read One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and it’s incredibly powerful & should be read by everyone. In the interest of making the words of @omarelakkad available to as many people as possible, we’re taking pre-orders at 40% off at kingsbookstore.ca/oneday
Rob should win the Governor General's Award for Book Science for so clearly articulating the correct owned-to-read ratio.
You must have read at least 1/3rd of your books. You cannot have read more than 2/3rds. The past and the future, the living and the dead, bargaining and acceptance, must always dance in tandem on your shelves.
November 15, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Rob should win the Governor General's Award for Book Science for so clearly articulating the correct owned-to-read ratio.
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We've made a few starterpacks for others who are interested in indie bookstores and publishers! Find them both on our page 💙📚
November 14, 2024 at 5:18 PM
We've made a few starterpacks for others who are interested in indie bookstores and publishers! Find them both on our page 💙📚
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📣 Introducing the class of fall 2024 📣
Our first list is broadly representative of the kinds of books we want to bring into the world with Assembly, with a novel, short stories, essays, poetry, a deck of writing prompts, and writing craft book. There's something for everyone!
Our first list is broadly representative of the kinds of books we want to bring into the world with Assembly, with a novel, short stories, essays, poetry, a deck of writing prompts, and writing craft book. There's something for everyone!
February 15, 2024 at 6:33 PM
📣 Introducing the class of fall 2024 📣
Our first list is broadly representative of the kinds of books we want to bring into the world with Assembly, with a novel, short stories, essays, poetry, a deck of writing prompts, and writing craft book. There's something for everyone!
Our first list is broadly representative of the kinds of books we want to bring into the world with Assembly, with a novel, short stories, essays, poetry, a deck of writing prompts, and writing craft book. There's something for everyone!
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Heads up: our first round of open submissions closes at 11:59pm ET on December 18! Learn more about Assembly and what we're looking for here: assemblypress.ca/submissions
And stay tuned for news on our next submission period in early 2024.
And stay tuned for news on our next submission period in early 2024.
December 1, 2023 at 2:33 PM
Heads up: our first round of open submissions closes at 11:59pm ET on December 18! Learn more about Assembly and what we're looking for here: assemblypress.ca/submissions
And stay tuned for news on our next submission period in early 2024.
And stay tuned for news on our next submission period in early 2024.
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HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE: ON VIOLENCE AND MEMORY has been out for one glorious month. Thank you everyone who helped me celebrate my second book with your thoughtful reviews, enthusiastic congratulations, participation in events, and spreading the word. You're all diamonds!
November 10, 2023 at 2:02 PM
HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE: ON VIOLENCE AND MEMORY has been out for one glorious month. Thank you everyone who helped me celebrate my second book with your thoughtful reviews, enthusiastic congratulations, participation in events, and spreading the word. You're all diamonds!
In a smart and hyper-quotable article, don’t sleep on this little nugget: “the recent rise of the blockbuster model means that the Big Five relegate many of even their own books to obscurity too.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/read...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/read...
Los Angeles Review of Books
lareviewofbooks.org
October 27, 2023 at 1:50 PM
In a smart and hyper-quotable article, don’t sleep on this little nugget: “the recent rise of the blockbuster model means that the Big Five relegate many of even their own books to obscurity too.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/read...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/read...