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James Gifford
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Professor & Press Director ¶ solo dad ¶ sing opera ¶ cut my own hair ¶ he/him ¶ own my views (views my own) ¶ typos pletniful And since I have more room here […]

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Well, that's unambiguous…
"Twitter username destroyed"
December 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Well, it looks like I'm firing up the ol' coal-powered web log… Before a new piece this month, here's some CNF first published in The Quarantine Review. It's about #adoption, academic travels in northern #bc, and discovering a beloved childhood author was an abuser […]

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Photograph from the plane flying into Terrace, BC, over the Skeena River.
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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“Hi, I’m Clippy. Looks like you’re reading about how to avoid damaging your own brain. Would you like me to order you a self-trepanning kit off Amazon? A companion volume is available of AI-generated guides to local edible mushrooms.”
Photo of a computer screen showing a book about critical reading for academic purposes with the library service’s AI auto-generating a substitute text to avoid critical reading.
October 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Giving this conference paper for #vicfa in less than an hour, and I feel like it’s going to be a lot of fun while working out something challenging…

“Pamela Dean, Allusion, and the Word Incarnate The Mythic Method in Modern Fantasy and Its Modernist Frame”
"Pamela Dean, Allusion, and the Word Incarnate: The Mythic Method in Modern Fantasy and Its Modernist Frame" James Gifford Fairleigh Dickinson University
September 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I’m watching a fab documentary on poets of Vernon, and my very first thought was “Jason’s involved because of this type.” Now I’m waiting to see…
The words don’t matter. It’s the same typeface he used in my books.
August 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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I can’t believe this place isn’t using the Coldplay concert meme… #coldplay #donair
Donaur Affair restaurant Grand Opening. “Our 20th Location.” Sorry, not very funny with the Alt Text… But they probably have really good donairs? Since I robbed you of that joke, guess what? Chicken butt. It makes my son laugh, so maybe…
August 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Friends, I've decided to post a year of content from my edition of Edward Taylor Fletcher's works. The hashtag #edtafl seems shiny and unused, so I'm taking it… This project came out during a tricky period and never really caught eyes, so I'm going to do that now! […]

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Book cover for Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth Century Canadian Literature
July 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I… I can’t even.
CBC News website with ad that reads “Seniors Born 1945-1985 Could Get This Benefit”
July 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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More #bloomscrolling a short walk from home
Flowers along the path
July 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Water lilies count for #bloomscrolling
Water lilies Water lilies
July 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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{Facepalm} Now I feel old for thinking “actually, that’s after the Cold War…”
"Back in 2000, I was going through every object in the NORAD space object catalogue, trying to figure out what each object was, all 25,000 of them as there were at the time. And I came across this one and went, 'OK, this is something unusual.''' It wasn't widely known what the object was at the time because the U.S. and the Soviet Union were in the midst of the Cold War, and many things were kept secret.
May 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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It’s reasonable advice…
PLEASE DO NOT USE YOUR FACE!
March 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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New poetry focused on form from above/ground press! (a consolation for missing @robmclennan read last week…)
Two chapbooks of poetry. TERMINALS by Nathanael O’Reilly and the suitcase poem by many hands with Amanda Earl.
March 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Gave a talk today for the #louisville conference #lclc52. Huge fun and a bit crazy to have done…

“From Easter Eggs to Clinamen: A Theory of Allusion in Lawrence Durrell, Samuel R. Delany, and David Eddings”

#academia #literature #modernism #sff
From Easter Eggs to Clinamen: A Theory of Allusion in Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Delany, and David Eddings James Gifford @GiffordJames@mas.to
February 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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And there it is. The most Canadian spectacle I have ever seen… #Canada
Many people walking around in a frozen lake behind a sign “DANGER THIN ICE KEEP OFF”
February 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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I’m not used to television showing my neighbourhood as if it were New York. I could get used to it… #allegiance #cbc
Patullo Bridge from Surrey, BC in the show Allegiance
February 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Turn to the open window and look down To drink past all deceiving … farewell, farewell to Edmonton leaving.
Edmonton from 104th looking toward the river valley
January 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Wonderful book launch for *Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim* by Justin Tse
book launch for Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim by Justin Tse
November 19, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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Just received the new Beagle book by @timothysmiller.bsky.social for review in #ywes! And I'll be teaching The Last Unicorn this spring, so pretty sure I'll get an early start on this one…

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn: A Critical Companion by Timothy S. Miller in the Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon series
November 18, 2024 at 6:32 PM