Jeff Miller
@theghostpine.bsky.social
Writer, reader, punk | MFA UBC | He/him
Novel: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, Spring 2026) Non-fiction: Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)
Novel: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, Spring 2026) Non-fiction: Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)
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Jeff Miller
@theghostpine.bsky.social
· Jan 23
I made a novel! Can’t wait for you to meet these punks. Coming spring 2026 from @houseofanansi.bsky.social
Happy Amazing there's a new Sam Lipsyte story in the @newyorker.com day to all who celebrate!!!
“Final Boy,” by Sam Lipsyte
“Oh, you write fan fiction,” she said. “We all write fan fiction,” I told her. “Some of us are just more honest about it.”
www.newyorker.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Happy Amazing there's a new Sam Lipsyte story in the @newyorker.com day to all who celebrate!!!
In need of joy? Check out this powerful instrumental underground rock and feel alive again
Orcutt Shelley Miller, by Orcutt Shelley Miller
5 track album
orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In need of joy? Check out this powerful instrumental underground rock and feel alive again
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ZINEDUMP is a new Toronto #zinefair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas.
The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre.
Applications are due August 31st!!!
zinedump.fyi
#zines #zinesdiy
The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre.
Applications are due August 31st!!!
zinedump.fyi
#zines #zinesdiy
August 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
ZINEDUMP is a new Toronto #zinefair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas.
The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre.
Applications are due August 31st!!!
zinedump.fyi
#zines #zinesdiy
The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre.
Applications are due August 31st!!!
zinedump.fyi
#zines #zinesdiy
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After an 11-year hiatus, @theghostpine.bsky.social has put out a new zine!
Memories of growing up in suburban Ottawa and discovering coffee and punk as a teenager, Jeff’s current life in rural Nova Scotia, exchanging letters with friends across decades.
sheerspite.ca/product/ghos...
Memories of growing up in suburban Ottawa and discovering coffee and punk as a teenager, Jeff’s current life in rural Nova Scotia, exchanging letters with friends across decades.
sheerspite.ca/product/ghos...
August 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
After an 11-year hiatus, @theghostpine.bsky.social has put out a new zine!
Memories of growing up in suburban Ottawa and discovering coffee and punk as a teenager, Jeff’s current life in rural Nova Scotia, exchanging letters with friends across decades.
sheerspite.ca/product/ghos...
Memories of growing up in suburban Ottawa and discovering coffee and punk as a teenager, Jeff’s current life in rural Nova Scotia, exchanging letters with friends across decades.
sheerspite.ca/product/ghos...
Beautiful review of the reunion of one of the greatest bands of the 2010s. They made music perfect for hot sunny days like these
Dick Diver review – beloved ‘dolewave’ band’s one-off reunion brings out Melbourne for four magical shows
Thornbury Theatre, MelbourneIt has been 10 years since their last album but you’d be forgiven for forgetting any time had passed at all – they sound as tight as ever
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Beautiful review of the reunion of one of the greatest bands of the 2010s. They made music perfect for hot sunny days like these
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Yesssss up on the website soon >:)
August 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Yesssss up on the website soon >:)
Heading to Sappyfest this weekend with a new issue of Ghost Pine zine, the first in a while!
August 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Heading to Sappyfest this weekend with a new issue of Ghost Pine zine, the first in a while!
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New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible.
⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...
@internetarchiveca.bsky.social
⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...
@internetarchiveca.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible.
⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...
@internetarchiveca.bsky.social
⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s...
@internetarchiveca.bsky.social
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I asked our friend Paul to design this Cooler At The Coast shirt for Jeff's birthday and it turned out so rad! Now you can get your own and/or some other cool stuff from him! Check out the Peace Worm pin ☮︎
Hi! Here’s a little personal peek behind the curtain for you - I just got hit with a BIG tax bill that I was unprepared for.. Poor planning? Yes! Unreliable executive function skills? You bet! And so I have added a number of new things to Ye Olde Shoppe!
paulghammond.bigcartel.com
paulghammond.bigcartel.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I asked our friend Paul to design this Cooler At The Coast shirt for Jeff's birthday and it turned out so rad! Now you can get your own and/or some other cool stuff from him! Check out the Peace Worm pin ☮︎
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Buy some of @paulghammond.bsky.social's excellent work!
Hi! Here’s a little personal peek behind the curtain for you - I just got hit with a BIG tax bill that I was unprepared for.. Poor planning? Yes! Unreliable executive function skills? You bet! And so I have added a number of new things to Ye Olde Shoppe!
paulghammond.bigcartel.com
paulghammond.bigcartel.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Buy some of @paulghammond.bsky.social's excellent work!
RIP to the first place I bought nutritional yeast
Kardish Health Food Centre closing all Ottawa stores
Ottawa-based Kardish Health Food Centre has announced it will be closing all its remaining locations after nearly five decades in business.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
RIP to the first place I bought nutritional yeast
The French balados on Radio Canada's Ohdio app are wild. Today I listened to a lady who wrote a book about Proust, a gruff chansonier, and the first drummer of Motorhead(!) on a panel discussion about books and music. The Ringer podcast network would never
June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The French balados on Radio Canada's Ohdio app are wild. Today I listened to a lady who wrote a book about Proust, a gruff chansonier, and the first drummer of Motorhead(!) on a panel discussion about books and music. The Ringer podcast network would never
Sweet essay, with cameos from some of my all-time favourite novels
Canadian Books Made Me Canadian - Macleans.ca
I left Russia as the country slid into authoritarianism and arrived in Canada knowing no one. In its novels, I found a blueprint for how to survive as a nation in the age of anger.
macleans.ca
June 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Sweet essay, with cameos from some of my all-time favourite novels
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@wordsweaver.bsky.social on writing stories of African Black queer joy under oppression as an act of faith.
Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression
In the spring of 2015, after I’d been working as a journalist for nearly two years, my post-graduation Work Permit expired. I’d been in Canada for seven years by then. I was allowed to stay in the …
buff.ly
June 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@wordsweaver.bsky.social on writing stories of African Black queer joy under oppression as an act of faith.
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Happy new Pulp album day! Here’s an interview I did with Jarvis Cocker in 1998 about life after Britpop, making adult-contemporary pop music that isn't shit, not understanding 22-year-olds, and why he's mortified by his early records: stubermania.substack.com/i/148668090/...
A conversation with Jarvis Cocker from 1998
The Pulp frontman on life after Britpop, making adult-contemporary pop music that isn't shit, not understanding 22-year-olds, and why he's mortified by his early records
stubermania.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Happy new Pulp album day! Here’s an interview I did with Jarvis Cocker in 1998 about life after Britpop, making adult-contemporary pop music that isn't shit, not understanding 22-year-olds, and why he's mortified by his early records: stubermania.substack.com/i/148668090/...
New Pulp and Turnstile records on the same day feels like a rare celestial event. A solar eclipse I'm going to stare into all day long
June 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
New Pulp and Turnstile records on the same day feels like a rare celestial event. A solar eclipse I'm going to stare into all day long
Encampment by @maggiehelwig.bsky.social is wonderful. A clear-eyed look at a broken system, yes. But also a rare honouring and centering of people on the margins. Helwig captures individuality and never caricatures. Beautiful and troubling and alive. Read it! @coachhousebooks.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Encampment by @maggiehelwig.bsky.social is wonderful. A clear-eyed look at a broken system, yes. But also a rare honouring and centering of people on the margins. Helwig captures individuality and never caricatures. Beautiful and troubling and alive. Read it! @coachhousebooks.bsky.social
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Whoo hoo! New book day! My sci-fi rom-com graphic novel about a shapeshifting situationship ZEROED OUT is out now. Sample and buy it via jimmunroe.net/comics/zeroe...
May 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Whoo hoo! New book day! My sci-fi rom-com graphic novel about a shapeshifting situationship ZEROED OUT is out now. Sample and buy it via jimmunroe.net/comics/zeroe...
Always thrilling to pick up my pre-orders! Especially an all-Canadian indie line up! Looking forward to reading Andy Brown's Why Fish Piss Matters from Vehicule, Maggie Helwig's Encampment from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, and @terivlass.bsky.social's Living Expenses from @invisibooks.bsky.social!
May 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Always thrilling to pick up my pre-orders! Especially an all-Canadian indie line up! Looking forward to reading Andy Brown's Why Fish Piss Matters from Vehicule, Maggie Helwig's Encampment from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, and @terivlass.bsky.social's Living Expenses from @invisibooks.bsky.social!
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Our rural grocery store, largely unchanged for 40 years, closed today (replaced by a fancy new store across the parking lot). When I popped in earlier, everyone was chatting at the checkouts as usual. That won't change, but I'll miss the familiar nostalgic space and feel of our dear little Sobeys 💗
Vintage Sobeys along Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore now closed
The grocery store in Head of Jeddore never underwent any major renovations while in operation, so shopping there was like taking a step back in time. A Foodland grocery store will soon replace it. Pre...
www.cbc.ca
May 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Our rural grocery store, largely unchanged for 40 years, closed today (replaced by a fancy new store across the parking lot). When I popped in earlier, everyone was chatting at the checkouts as usual. That won't change, but I'll miss the familiar nostalgic space and feel of our dear little Sobeys 💗
Happy Birthday, David! Hearing Kim Stanley Robinson tear up while discussing the loss of his mentor and friend Ursula K LeGuin was incredibly moving. Utopias too contain grief ❤️ tinhouse.com/podcast/craf...
April 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Happy Birthday, David! Hearing Kim Stanley Robinson tear up while discussing the loss of his mentor and friend Ursula K LeGuin was incredibly moving. Utopias too contain grief ❤️ tinhouse.com/podcast/craf...
New Pulp single is perfectly magical!!
Pulp: Spike Island review – Jarvis Cocker and co’s joyous second coming
The anthemic lead single from the band’s first album in 24 years casts a wary eye over their peak 90s fame – but also suggests that performing is irresistible
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
New Pulp single is perfectly magical!!
Grey and white morning
April 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Grey and white morning
Los Crudos got me pogoing around the kitchen while I make lunch
Achicados, by Los Crudos
from the album Doble LP Discografía
lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Los Crudos got me pogoing around the kitchen while I make lunch