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)
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!
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
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!
Grey and white morning
April 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Grey and white morning
Thrilled to get my pre-ordered copy of Everything Is Fine Here from my local bookstore! Set in Uganda, the debut novel from my friend, the incredible @wordsweaver.bsky.social follows a woman experiencing the effects of anti-LBGTQ laws on her family houseofanansi.com/products/eve...
March 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Thrilled to get my pre-ordered copy of Everything Is Fine Here from my local bookstore! Set in Uganda, the debut novel from my friend, the incredible @wordsweaver.bsky.social follows a woman experiencing the effects of anti-LBGTQ laws on her family houseofanansi.com/products/eve...
Stick to the classic tsar garb
February 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Stick to the classic tsar garb
Lovely words from Katherine Rundell on the eternal value of kids books
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
January 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Lovely words from Katherine Rundell on the eternal value of kids books
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I made a novel! Can’t wait for you to meet these punks. Coming spring 2026 from @houseofanansi.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I made a novel! Can’t wait for you to meet these punks. Coming spring 2026 from @houseofanansi.bsky.social
I will always love Mat Brinkman's MULTIFORCE
January 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I will always love Mat Brinkman's MULTIFORCE
Among the greatest pleasures of my New Year book reorganization was getting all of our mass market paperbacks to fit on this cute lil shelf
January 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Among the greatest pleasures of my New Year book reorganization was getting all of our mass market paperbacks to fit on this cute lil shelf
It seems there is an inverse relationship between how much I love a book and how slowly I read it. This thin volume is taking forever. Pure luminous beauty!
December 23, 2024 at 4:53 PM
It seems there is an inverse relationship between how much I love a book and how slowly I read it. This thin volume is taking forever. Pure luminous beauty!
Gornick's Goldman bio rules! Emma is irrepressible. From sweatshop worker to rabble-rousing Anarchist speaker. She runs a radical paper, takes lovers, is jailed, meets Kropotkin, becomes a nurse. Emma never sells out, advocating Anarchism to the end. Long live!
December 11, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Gornick's Goldman bio rules! Emma is irrepressible. From sweatshop worker to rabble-rousing Anarchist speaker. She runs a radical paper, takes lovers, is jailed, meets Kropotkin, becomes a nurse. Emma never sells out, advocating Anarchism to the end. Long live!
@ronb8s.bsky.social I'm fifty pages into The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky. Really enjoying it so far! Follows a jazz band in a small Czech town at the very end of WWII, before the Red Army arrives. Lots of youthful angst!
December 5, 2024 at 5:08 PM
@ronb8s.bsky.social I'm fifty pages into The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky. Really enjoying it so far! Follows a jazz band in a small Czech town at the very end of WWII, before the Red Army arrives. Lots of youthful angst!
Dig this new Jeff Wall of someone flipping out down at the Legion.
November 30, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Dig this new Jeff Wall of someone flipping out down at the Legion.
Anyone finish this? Is it worth it? I've got 80 pp left but it's a coma delusion followed by a Coetzee-style essay about death. I think I'm out.
November 28, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Anyone finish this? Is it worth it? I've got 80 pp left but it's a coma delusion followed by a Coetzee-style essay about death. I think I'm out.
Up at 6:30 to go load Christmas trees on a truck in Ship Harbour. Why is this even a time?
November 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Up at 6:30 to go load Christmas trees on a truck in Ship Harbour. Why is this even a time?
Dartmouth Book Exchange keeps it spicy!🌶️
November 22, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Dartmouth Book Exchange keeps it spicy!🌶️
Stumbled upon a mini exhibition of contemporary drawings from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) on the second floor of Dal's law school. Including these two stunners by Ningiukulu Teevee and Johnny Pootoogook. Please forgive the reflections of very '90s wall sconces!
November 21, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Stumbled upon a mini exhibition of contemporary drawings from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) on the second floor of Dal's law school. Including these two stunners by Ningiukulu Teevee and Johnny Pootoogook. Please forgive the reflections of very '90s wall sconces!
Show me your comics taste in 4 different comics
November 20, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Show me your comics taste in 4 different comics
It’s been great (re)connecting with people here. It may be Polyannaish in a time of disaster and suffering, but I feel lucky to be part of these worlds; readers, writers, booksellers. Folks moved by words. These communities are precious. Here we all are, in the same place at the same time. Amazing.
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 PM
It’s been great (re)connecting with people here. It may be Polyannaish in a time of disaster and suffering, but I feel lucky to be part of these worlds; readers, writers, booksellers. Folks moved by words. These communities are precious. Here we all are, in the same place at the same time. Amazing.
Heart full today! Spent the weekend helping at the local bookshop Steeple Green. I worked with owner Michael Lake at a bookstore in Montreal, now we both live in rural Nova Scotia. Nice reminder of how excited folks are about books! When they talk about their favourites their eyes twinkle. Magic!
November 18, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Heart full today! Spent the weekend helping at the local bookshop Steeple Green. I worked with owner Michael Lake at a bookstore in Montreal, now we both live in rural Nova Scotia. Nice reminder of how excited folks are about books! When they talk about their favourites their eyes twinkle. Magic!
Solidarity with Canada Post workers on strike! As a life-long pen pal, letter writer, and recipient of mail magic, I stand behind them all the way ✊💌
November 15, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Solidarity with Canada Post workers on strike! As a life-long pen pal, letter writer, and recipient of mail magic, I stand behind them all the way ✊💌
Hello new followers!
Here is my beagle Shelmerdine. He snuggles, he screams, he zooms, he snoozes in the sun. He does something funny every day.
I write CNF, fiction, sometimes reviews, and teach when I can. Started in zines. I live in Nova Scotia, spent many years in Montreal & grew up in Ottawa.
Here is my beagle Shelmerdine. He snuggles, he screams, he zooms, he snoozes in the sun. He does something funny every day.
I write CNF, fiction, sometimes reviews, and teach when I can. Started in zines. I live in Nova Scotia, spent many years in Montreal & grew up in Ottawa.
November 14, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Hello new followers!
Here is my beagle Shelmerdine. He snuggles, he screams, he zooms, he snoozes in the sun. He does something funny every day.
I write CNF, fiction, sometimes reviews, and teach when I can. Started in zines. I live in Nova Scotia, spent many years in Montreal & grew up in Ottawa.
Here is my beagle Shelmerdine. He snuggles, he screams, he zooms, he snoozes in the sun. He does something funny every day.
I write CNF, fiction, sometimes reviews, and teach when I can. Started in zines. I live in Nova Scotia, spent many years in Montreal & grew up in Ottawa.
Super mail day: The debut seven inch from PEI's rippin'-est HC shredders Cell Deth! Plus stickers and a lovely note from Sewercide Records honcho Davis Brown. Support your local DIY punk label!
November 13, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Super mail day: The debut seven inch from PEI's rippin'-est HC shredders Cell Deth! Plus stickers and a lovely note from Sewercide Records honcho Davis Brown. Support your local DIY punk label!