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