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Newsletter · By Lydia Perovic · English · Paid tier available · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    Ontario’s forgotten Birmingham (opens the original)

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    Word on the Street isIf you’re in Toronto this weekend, I’ll be at the Sutherland tent as of 3 pm tomorrow Sep 27 for an in-person AMA - slash - signing, should anyone also like to get a copy of my 2022 book Lost in Canada: An Immigrant’s Second Thoughts. Glad to see some of us backlisters in the WOTS this year. There should be a T-shirt “I knew Ken W before he become Canada’s nonfiction Jack McClelland” or “I was a Sutherland author way back when they were two men and a dog in a Leaside warehou

  2. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    We, who have wintered, have learned some things (opens the original)

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    Mark your calendars for the next pub shindig in October:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!elJB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amaz

  3. Issue · Sep 13, 2026

    What we used to dismiss as ‘postmodern’ (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1674" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IKKS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8675f53-23b7-43b6-8261-666b2395d9e5_1800x2069.

  4. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    Bring back the office of the censor (opens the original)

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    Catch-up serviceConversations with novelists: Tim Parks (the one where he is certain that Elena Ferrante is Domenico Starnone) | Russell Smith | Martha Baillie | Andre Forget | <a href="https://longplay.substa

  5. Issue · Aug 29, 2026

    Carney beloved by the biggest Centrist Dad podcast in the world (opens the original)

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    Welcome to the final bits and bobs of August. End of Butter continuesReader mailbag after the End of Butter post also contains this, from a cauliflower nationalist. Take it with a grain of parm:Dear Lydia,We need to talk about cauliflower.This humble cruciform is transformed into juicy, salty, crispy deliciousness with the simplest grilling in olive oil, salt and pepper, with a nice dollop of ground Parmesan for the last minute. You have to eat it to believe it.Method: Take a head of cauliflower

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