Matthew R Anderson
@mrapomquet.bsky.social
Ancient Mediterranean, pilgrimage, decolonization, aware-settler, fiction, Leonard Cohen, a bit of everything. Gatto Chair StFX University Nova Scotia. Mi'kmaki/Treaty 4. Six books. www.somethinggrand.ca https://www.stfx.ca/faculty-staff/matthew-anderson
If you're in or around Halifax, come see me at the Pottersfield Press booth, between 1 and 2 pm this Saturday! Would love to visit!
October 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
If you're in or around Halifax, come see me at the Pottersfield Press booth, between 1 and 2 pm this Saturday! Would love to visit!
Quentin Amundson wrote a lovely piece in The Catholic Register about Prophets of Love (MQUP), and the five-afternoon online class on Leonard and Paul I'm teaching for Atlantic School of Theology (still some spots open!) digital.catholicregister.org/Catholic-Reg...
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Quentin Amundson wrote a lovely piece in The Catholic Register about Prophets of Love (MQUP), and the five-afternoon online class on Leonard and Paul I'm teaching for Atlantic School of Theology (still some spots open!) digital.catholicregister.org/Catholic-Reg...
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
Today is both St Jerome's feast day and Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Believe it or not, I wrote something that brings those two subjects together: bibleandcriticaltheory.com/issues/volum...
September 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Today is both St Jerome's feast day and Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Believe it or not, I wrote something that brings those two subjects together: bibleandcriticaltheory.com/issues/volum...
Wishes you, pilgrim, no matter what kind of pilgrim you might be, a happy Feast of St. James. Here's my podcast on the Camino www.podbean.com/ew/pb-bp8gt-...
July 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wishes you, pilgrim, no matter what kind of pilgrim you might be, a happy Feast of St. James. Here's my podcast on the Camino www.podbean.com/ew/pb-bp8gt-...
Had a great interview with CBC's Sonali Karnick, about my new book: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
July 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Had a great interview with CBC's Sonali Karnick, about my new book: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
In addition to recently winning a Sask Book Award for Publishers 2025, The Good Walk was a The Miramichi Reader non-fiction best of 2024 choice. This summer is 10 years from the day we set out!
June 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In addition to recently winning a Sask Book Award for Publishers 2025, The Good Walk was a The Miramichi Reader non-fiction best of 2024 choice. This summer is 10 years from the day we set out!
This is what it's like being married to a Maritime Canadian.
April 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is what it's like being married to a Maritime Canadian.
Most writers struggle. Many write "on the side". I won't quit my day job, but I just got a much appreciated payment from the Public Lending Right Program of Canada. Yay for public libraries! And for parties supporting Canadian arts & culture - our unique voice!
#BringingTheArtsToLife
#CanadaCouncil
#BringingTheArtsToLife
#CanadaCouncil
February 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Most writers struggle. Many write "on the side". I won't quit my day job, but I just got a much appreciated payment from the Public Lending Right Program of Canada. Yay for public libraries! And for parties supporting Canadian arts & culture - our unique voice!
#BringingTheArtsToLife
#CanadaCouncil
#BringingTheArtsToLife
#CanadaCouncil
This month's Strokeaversary: I Got My Driver's License! somethinggrand.ca/2025/02/20/f...
February 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This month's Strokeaversary: I Got My Driver's License! somethinggrand.ca/2025/02/20/f...
Just read a fantastic, thoughtful, review of Prophets of Love by Kip Gilmore-Clough in the journal Religions. How about Leonard Cohen for St Valentine's Day? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Just read a fantastic, thoughtful, review of Prophets of Love by Kip Gilmore-Clough in the journal Religions. How about Leonard Cohen for St Valentine's Day? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
BACK COVER REVEAL!! Just received this from Pottersfield Press for my book coming April 15 (can be preordered now). I love the footprints by my name on the spine.
January 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
BACK COVER REVEAL!! Just received this from Pottersfield Press for my book coming April 15 (can be preordered now). I love the footprints by my name on the spine.
Cheaper than the upcoming auction of Leonard Cohen memorabilia (see Rolling Stone for Jan 30), and almost as much fun! www.mqup.ca/prophets-of-...
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Cheaper than the upcoming auction of Leonard Cohen memorabilia (see Rolling Stone for Jan 30), and almost as much fun! www.mqup.ca/prophets-of-...
I didn't plan to submit this book manuscript from Emergency. Now, four months later, it's in the spring Nimbus Publishing catalogue!
January 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I didn't plan to submit this book manuscript from Emergency. Now, four months later, it's in the spring Nimbus Publishing catalogue!
Fess up! Who sent me this book today? I can already tell from the first five pages it's an exquisite read.
(Sweet Pea for scale.)
#Ingrained #woodworking #mystery
(Sweet Pea for scale.)
#Ingrained #woodworking #mystery
January 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Fess up! Who sent me this book today? I can already tell from the first five pages it's an exquisite read.
(Sweet Pea for scale.)
#Ingrained #woodworking #mystery
(Sweet Pea for scale.)
#Ingrained #woodworking #mystery
crazy-good review of my book The Good Walk by Michael Bryson in the Miramichi Reader! miramichireader.ca/2024/11/the-...
December 18, 2024 at 1:19 AM
crazy-good review of my book The Good Walk by Michael Bryson in the Miramichi Reader! miramichireader.ca/2024/11/the-...
Interview this Tuesday Dec 10! I'll be chatting about Prophets of Love (MQUP) , The Good Walk (URP), Our Home & Treaty Land (Friesen), and my book coming out with Pottersfield Press in April about Scottish and Nova Scotian pilgrimage. You're invited!
December 7, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Interview this Tuesday Dec 10! I'll be chatting about Prophets of Love (MQUP) , The Good Walk (URP), Our Home & Treaty Land (Friesen), and my book coming out with Pottersfield Press in April about Scottish and Nova Scotian pilgrimage. You're invited!
So.... my "Prophets of Love: the Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul" DIDN'T win the prestigious Vine Award for Non-Fiction. But it was one of 3 finalists, among which the winner was @naomiaklein.bsky.social's "Doppelganger". Pretty exalted company!
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 1:19 AM
So.... my "Prophets of Love: the Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul" DIDN'T win the prestigious Vine Award for Non-Fiction. But it was one of 3 finalists, among which the winner was @naomiaklein.bsky.social's "Doppelganger". Pretty exalted company!
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
been looking up Guinea Fowl as soon as these creatures started showing up in our yard. They apparently eat ticks so I'm hoping they survive until spring....
December 1, 2024 at 1:56 AM
been looking up Guinea Fowl as soon as these creatures started showing up in our yard. They apparently eat ticks so I'm hoping they survive until spring....
feels pretty jazzed to see this just out from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social !
November 26, 2024 at 10:24 PM
feels pretty jazzed to see this just out from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social !
#SBLAAR24 you can find "Prophets of Love: the Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul" at the @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social booth!
November 24, 2024 at 6:46 PM
#SBLAAR24 you can find "Prophets of Love: the Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul" at the @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social booth!
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. 🥂🍾🥂🍾!!!
PROPHETS OF LOVE (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social) is shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards!! 🤯
At the McGilll Queens book table at #SBLAAR24
PROPHETS OF LOVE (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social) is shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards!! 🤯
At the McGilll Queens book table at #SBLAAR24
November 23, 2024 at 3:18 AM
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. 🥂🍾🥂🍾!!!
PROPHETS OF LOVE (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social) is shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards!! 🤯
At the McGilll Queens book table at #SBLAAR24
PROPHETS OF LOVE (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social) is shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards!! 🤯
At the McGilll Queens book table at #SBLAAR24
No discount here in Canada, but I see that Am*z*n in the U.S. has my Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul book on for 25% off at the moment. Blurb in comments!
November 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
No discount here in Canada, but I see that Am*z*n in the U.S. has my Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul book on for 25% off at the moment. Blurb in comments!
Thanks to @allenjorgenson.bsky.social for such a delightful, thoughtful review of Prophets of Love: the Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul! lnkd.in/eBjfsCUb
July 27, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Thanks to @allenjorgenson.bsky.social for such a delightful, thoughtful review of Prophets of Love: the Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul! lnkd.in/eBjfsCUb
Today is the one day of the year promoting this article really makes sense. Open access: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
March 30, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Today is the one day of the year promoting this article really makes sense. Open access: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗟!
This week, I got to see the final cover for 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑘: 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑃𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 (U of Regina Press). It's off to the printer. I love it.
The cover photo (George Tsougrianis) is while walking the Trader's Road, a traditional Metis trail, in 2015.
This week, I got to see the final cover for 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑘: 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑃𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 (U of Regina Press). It's off to the printer. I love it.
The cover photo (George Tsougrianis) is while walking the Trader's Road, a traditional Metis trail, in 2015.
January 19, 2024 at 2:36 AM
𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗔𝗟!
This week, I got to see the final cover for 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑘: 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑃𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 (U of Regina Press). It's off to the printer. I love it.
The cover photo (George Tsougrianis) is while walking the Trader's Road, a traditional Metis trail, in 2015.
This week, I got to see the final cover for 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑘: 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑃𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 (U of Regina Press). It's off to the printer. I love it.
The cover photo (George Tsougrianis) is while walking the Trader's Road, a traditional Metis trail, in 2015.