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Ben Ladouceur
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Author of novel "I Remember Lights" (2025) and 2 poetry books 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Cover of Dear Catastrophe Waitress by Belle & Sebastian
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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My novel in the window at Black Squirrel Books in Ottawa, a bookstore i have loved for a long time 🐿️🖤
Me pointing at my book in a window display. A pile of my book, I Remember Lights, on a bookstore table among other books
June 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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IRL in the G&M spring books list. Just 1 month to go before launch. @theglobeandmail.com 👁️🤔💡
I Remember Lights, Ben Ladouceur (Book*hug) The prize-winning poet’s first novel is a gay coming-of-age about a 19-year-old man from New Brunswick who travels to Montreal and finds sexual liberation among the pavilions of Expo 67, only to get caught up in the infamous (real) raid on the city’s Truxx nightclub a decade later: one of the largest mass arrests of gay men in Canadian history. New books to read this spring - Globe and Mail Globe and mail newspaper cover
March 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Posting extremely good poems by Canadian authors, day 3: from Float and Scurry, Heather Birrell
February 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Posting extremely good poems by Canadian authors, day 2: from Intruder, Bardia Sinaee (2021)
THE END OF MEN It is so hard for some men to be men and be humans also, to be men without treading on other men, as if not all men can be men. A man needs a man like a fish needs a hook, for how else will a man know he is man enough? Next to some men, this man is a fly on a sill, and this man is an island adrift in a man-made sea. But a man without a plan is not a joke. For instance: a man walks in on two men and never speaks to them again. When headlines proclaim THE END OF MEN, this man, for one, is elated. Because man is an impossible experiment. Because the ideal man, who would be all things to all men — yes-men, ladies' men, men of letters, men of God — is a man at odds with himself.
February 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Posting extremely good poems by Canadian authors, day 1: from Last Child to Come Inside, Michelle Desbarats (1998)
February 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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"The public life of a writer is the books he writes, and the private life of a writer is the books he reads."

Probably true BUT I'll nonetheless briefly praise this great, weird novel I finished last night, about Herman Melvill's dad, ice, life, and the universe. @openletterbooks.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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from Last Child to Come Inside (1998), Michelle Desbarats
December 16, 2024 at 3:49 PM