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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 15h

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books: But The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu (Unnamed Press) https://www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/but-the-girll
-and- Summer of Hate by Chris Kraus (Semiotext(e)) https://www.semiotexte.com/summer-of-hate Alt-text for details.

Book cover for Summer of Hate by Chris Kraus from Semiotext(e), depicting a wave of foamy water coming under double at the end of a yellow-and-brown checkered hallway.

Waking up from the chilling high of a near-death sex game, Catt Dunlop travels to Albuquerque in 2005 to reinvest some windfall real-estate gains and reengage with something approximating “real life.” Aware that the critical discourse she has used to build her career as a visiting professor and art critic is really a cipher for something else, she hopes that buying and fixing slum buildings will bring her more closely in touch with American life than the essays she writes. https://www.semiotexte.com/summer-of-hate

Book cover for But The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu (Unnamed Press), depicting a woman reading a book that is on fire, the flames oblitering her face.

Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl boards her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath. Though she is ambivalent toward academia and harbors ideas about writing a post-colonial novel, if only she could work out just what that means, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectations and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family. At last Girl has an opportunity to live on her own terms. https://www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/but-the-girll

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 1d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books from University of Toronto Press: Epidemics and the Modern World by Mitchell L. Hammond https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487593735
-and- Guardians of the Community by Kimberly N. Varma and Kanwal Khokhar https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487560058
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Book cover for Guardians of the Community: The Block Parent Program of Canada by Kimberly N. Varma and Kanwal Khokhar (University of Toronto Press), depicting a child with a long ponytail listening to headphones behind the lower left window in a grid of four windows, which also form the outline of cell phones suggested by the buttons on their sides and single dot for the camera at center top, all against a red background. The Block Parent® Program of Canada was launched in 1968 following a tragic child abduction and homicide in Ontario. It rapidly expanded across the country, becoming the largest volunteer-led child safety initiative. For over fifty years, the program relied on volunteer homemakers, mostly stay-at-home mothers, who signaled their homes as safe havens for distressed children. Supported by partnerships with police, local businesses, and schools, the program provided a community-based approach to child protection. Although participation declined over the years, recent concerns about bullying, traffic safety, and child protection have sparked renewed interest in Block Parent communities. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487560058

Book cover for Epidemics and the Modern World by Mitchell L. Hammond (University of Toronto Press), with a plague doctor with long beak mask in black and white against an orange background. Our institutions, colonial structures, relationships to animals, and perceptions of suffering, sexuality, race, and disability have all shaped – and been shaped by – these significant medical events. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487593735

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**Bryan Beast** @bryanbeast@mastodon.art · 1d

Bryan Beast @bryanbeast@mastodon.art

Le chien qui chassait les lézards - dessin au feutre sur papier bristol - 30x40cm.
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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 2d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books: We Grow the World Together eds. Maya Schenwar & Kim Wilson (Haymarket Books) https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-we-grow-the-world-together & Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen (BOA Editions) https://www.boaeditions.org/products/your-emergency-contact-has-experienced-an-emergency Alt-text for details.

Book cover for Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency: Poems by Chen Chen (BOA Editions), depicting a pink and a turquoise person sitting on top of a clotheswasher, naked and spooning, with a green cat on the dryer next to them. Behind them is a mountain and waxing moon.

"What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue?"
https://www.boaeditions.org/products/your-emergency-contact-has-experienced-an-emergency

Book cover for We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition edited by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson (Haymarket Books), with title and editor text over a painting of a lush garden.

Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is something that grows?” As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-we-grow-the-world-together

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**Bandes dessinées** @bandes_dessinees@mamot.fr · 3d

Bandes dessinées @bandes_dessinees@mamot.fr

On déballe!, spécial fanzines, avec @lentortillee , vendredi 28 à 21h30, sur notre chaîne Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/bandes_dessinees

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**Bryan Mathers** @bryanmmathers@mastodon.ie · 3d

Bryan Mathers @bryanmmathers@mastodon.ie

If you’ve travelled the Central or Bakerloo lines across London, you’ll have noticed that there is a great need for signs of this nature.

Mind yer bap is an Ulster way of saying watch out – your head may be in imminent danger so wind it in please…

https://ulster.visualthinkery.com/irish-giant/mind-yer-bap/
From Nothing to See Here - Zine 5 in the Patchwork Province series.

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 3d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books: The Secret That Is Not a Secret by Jay Michaelson (Ayin Press): https://ayinpress.org/the-secret-that-is-not-a-secret-2/
-and- Word Problems by Ian Williams (Coach House Books): https://chbooks.com/Books/W/Word-Problems Alt-text for details.

Book cover for The Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales by Jay Michaelson (Ayin Press), with ten circles of different colours against a dark dusty rose background, each connected by wavering lines to the next.

The inhabitants of these interlocking stories are pious and rebellious, mystical and queer, from a Hasidic woman tormented by her husband’s long beard to a closeted gay man repenting of his sins in the mikva. The first book of fiction by Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. https://ayinpress.org/the-secret-that-is-not-a-secret-2/

Book cover for Word Problems: Poems by Ian Williams (Coach House Books), winner of the Raymond Souster Award 2021. Title text is laid out twice in one black and one white interlocking circles against a red background.

From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize, using his characteristic inventiveness to find not just new answers but new questions, reconsidering what poetry can be, using math and grammar lessons to shape poems that invite us to participate. Two long poems cut through the text like vibrating bass notes, curiosities circle endlessly, and microaggressions spin into lyric. And all done with a light touch and a joyful sense of humour.
https://chbooks.com/Books/W/Word-Problems

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 4d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books: Dysphoria Mundi (release day!) by Paul B. Preciado, translated by Frank Wynne (Fitzcarraldo Editions) https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/dysphoria-mundi/
-and- Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Haymarket Books) https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living Alt-text for details.

Book cover for Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Haymarket Books), with title text in a handwritten font and author text in various splotchy colours including electric blue, all against a black background.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1880-rehearsals-for-living

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists. When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, award-winning author of several books, including the recent novel Noopiming, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity, and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into a powerful exchange on the subject of where we go from here.

Book cover for Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary Transition by Paul B. Preciado, translated by Frank Wynne (Fitzcarraldo Editions), depicting a person with breasts and male genitalia and large green wings, holding a torch and wearing only a helmet.

https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/dysphoria-mundi/

In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the isolation of the Covid-19 pandemic, and taking account of the societal convulsions that have ensued, Preciado tries to make sense of our times from within the swirl of a revolutionary present moment. The central thesis of this monumental work is that dysphoria, to be understood properly, should not be seen as a mental illness but rather as the condition that defines our times. Dysphoria is an abyss that separates a patriarchal, colonial and capitalist order hurtling toward its end from a new way of being that, until now, has been seen as unproductive and abnormal but is in fact the way out of our current predicament.

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 5d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books: A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib (Tin House Books) https://tinhouse.com/book/a-fortune-for-your-disaster/
-and- The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel (book*hug) https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/lindsay-zier-vogel/the-fun-times-brigade-by-lindsay-zier-vogel/ Alt-text for details.

Book cover for The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel (book*hug), with the title and author text in various colours reminiscent of late '60s/early '70s fashion, with a VW bus between them. Amy is a new mother, navigating the fog of those bewildering early days and struggling with a role she feels ill-prepared for. It’s the first time in a decade that she hasn’t been living the busy life of a successful children’s musician, and her sense of self is unravelling. To make matters worse, her former bandmates have seemingly abandoned her. https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/lindsay-zier-vogel/the-fun-times-brigade-by-lindsay-zier-vogel/

Book cover for A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib (Tin House Books), depicting a black man pouring water from a halved coconut over his head. Poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. https://tinhouse.com/book/a-fortune-for-your-disaster/

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**dm807169** @dm807169@mastodon.social · 5d *

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dm807169 @dm807169@mastodon.social

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · Mar 21

Mar 21

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #book from Editorial Resistencia: The Last Axolotl: https://editorialresistencia.com.mx/tienda/producto/el-ultimo-ajolote/ Alt-text for details.

Book cover for The Last Axolotl (illustration and text by Víctor José Palacios; publisher Editorial Resistencia), depicting a happy axolotl swimming past a small crab and surrounded by green and blue water and plants.

The latest addition to Resistencia's trilingual collection tells the story of Axolotl the axolotl, who discovers that there are no more of his kind in the canals of Xochimilco, so he decides to go out and investigate if there are more like him. He will discover that the world has changed, for the worse, and it is up to each of us to help ensure that nature's resources and inhabitants do not become depleted. In the end, Xolotl finds his mystical twin, Quetzalcoatl. A story of adventure and ecology for all audiences.

https://editorialresistencia.com.mx/tienda/producto/el-ultimo-ajolote/ (Note prices are in Mexican currency.)

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**Bryan Beast** @bryanbeast@mastodon.art · Mar 21

Mar 21

Bryan Beast @bryanbeast@mastodon.art

Le clapier ambulant - dessin au feutre sur papier bristol - 30x40cm.
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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · Mar 20

Mar 20

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books:
Flight of the Wild Swan by Melissa Pritchard (Bellevue Literary Press)
https://blpress.org/books/flight-of-the-wild-swan/
From Lone Mountain by John Porcellino (Drawn & Quarterly)
https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/lone-mountain/
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Book cover for From Lone Mountain by John Porcellino (Drawn & Quarterly), depicting stems and flowers rising from the bottom of the frame against a blue background.

A view of America—as seen in small towns, rural roads, and its overlooked in-between places.
https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/lone-mountain/

Book cover for Flight of the Wild Swan by Melissa Pritchard (Bellevue Literary Press), depicting a woman with late 1800's shawl and updo reading a book against a drawing of white branches.

Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend.
https://blpress.org/books/flight-of-the-wild-swan/

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · Mar 19

Mar 19

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books: Carley Moore's Panpocalypse from Feminist Press: https://www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/panpocalypse -and- Kit Schluter's Cartoons from City Lights Books: https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/cartoons/ Alt-text for details.

Book cover for Kit Schluter's Cartoons from City Lights Books, depicting a puppet on a stage in front of rows of empty chairs. The puppet is lying on the stage.

(Set in the uncanny valley between Bugs Bunny and Franz Kafka, Cartoons is an explosive series of outrageous, absurdist tales.)
https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/cartoons/

Book cover for Carley Moore's Panpocalypse from Feminist Press, depicting a lavender and gray bike overturned against a soft yellow background.

(During the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down NYC for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.)
https://www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/panpocalypse

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · Mar 18

Mar 18

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #book:
2025 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium! (Autonomedia) https://autonomedia.org/product/2025-autonomedia-calendar-of-jubilee-saints-radical-heroes-for-the-new-millennium/
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Cover for the 2025 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium! (Autonomedia): Hundreds of radical cultural and political heroes are celebrated here, along with the animating ideas that continue to guide this project a reprieve from the 500-year-long sentence to life-at-hard-labor that the European colonization of the New World and the ensuing devastations of the rest of the world has represented. Artwork by James Koehnline and Text by the Sacred Congregation for Universal Jubilation. https://autonomedia.org/product/2025-autonomedia-calendar-of-jubilee-saints-radical-heroes-for-the-new-millennium/

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · Mar 17

Mar 17

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books from Orca Book Publishers: My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith and Blueberry Patch by Jennifer Leason. Alt-text for details.

Book cover for Meennunyakaa / Blueberry Patch (Jennifer Leason, Orca), with a plant with flowers and birds as well as green leaves behind plump blueberries, all against a yellow background. Based in Duck Bay, Manitoba, in the 1940s, an Elder shares his experience of packing up to go out to collect blueberries, a traditional gathering that took place every summer. He describes the journey and landscape with humor and such vivid imagery that readers will see themselves there with him, boarding the trail of wagons from surrounding communities and heading east toward the blueberry patch. The Elder's stories offer a journey back in time and are complemented by images of fields of plump blueberries, tall green grass, bannock baking over an open fire, clear freshwater streams and the tents the people slept in. https://www.orcabook.com/Meennunyakaa-Blueberry-Patch

Book cover for My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith (Orca Book Publishers), depicting a small girl twirling so her skirt forms a circle behind her upturned face, against a yellow background with small white flowers. The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. Available in English and Anishinaabemowin (trans. Angela Mesic & Margaret Noodin), English and Plains Cree (trans. Mary Cardinal Collins), and English and Spanish (trans. Lawrence Schimel) editions. https://www.orcabook.com/Search?Keywords=My+Heart+Fills+With+Happiness+

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**Bryan Beast** @bryanbeast@pixelfed.social · Mar 15

Mar 15

Bryan Beast @bryanbeast@pixelfed.social

Spider skull - dessin au feutre sur papier bristol - 30x40cm
Il y a plusieurs mois, voir plusieurs années, OMG le temps passe vite, j'avais fait une borne d'arcade fictive sur le thème de KRYSTALAX. J'y présentais un monde pétri de violence et de pierres précieuses.
Aujourd'hui j'ai muri, et ce monde est pétri d'animaux mignons et de pierres précieuses. Enfin quand je dis "animaux mignons" ce sont principalement des rongeurs, des chiens et des vaches. Mais ils ont l'œil humide et plein de tendresse, alors ça va. Et sinon y'a aussi des robots-tête-de-mort, parce que bon, quand même faut pas déconner.
Je dessine tout ça avec des feutres, à l'aide de mes petits doigts plein de tendresse, ma couleur préférée c'est le rose fluo, j'en ai plusieurs teintes différentes.
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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · Mar 15

Mar 15

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

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Book cover for Lost in Living by Halyna Kruk, trans. Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky (Lost Horse Press), depicting a brown and purple house with blank windows. Poetry from the immediate "pre-invasion" years when life in Ukraine was marked by turmoil but full-scale war was not yet normalized. https://losthorsepress.org/catalog/lost-in-living/

Book cover for Moon Honey: Landmark Edition by Suzette Mayr (NeWest Press), black and red feathers and purple squiggles and paisleys against a lighter indigo background. Winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize. In this modern, magical tale, Carmen and Griffin, young and white, are goofy, head-over-heels in love. When Carmen turns into a black woman, Griffin thrills at a love turned exotic. But Carmen’s transformation means trouble for Griffin’s racist mother, already struggling with a new lover and a husband nicknamed God. The question is, can love be relied on to save the day? Moon Honey is an inventive, funny, sexy tale of love affairs and magical transformations. https://bookshop.newestpress.com/products/moon-honey-landmark-edition

Book cover for Baby Cerberus by Natasha Ramoutar (Wolsak & Wynn), depicting a black three-headed dog on a city street at night. The poems in Baby Cerberus are ethereal, soul-stirring and suffused with a playful intelligence. Natasha Ramoutar’s second collection traces joy and kinship across a multitude of lives and lived experiences. Shifting deftly from classical mythology and folklore to video games to speculative futures, each poem asks us to consider how we care for one another. As we move through sentient galleries, swashbuckling adventures and the doors of Atlantis, the collection reorients us in each section with a riddle, always inviting the reader to play along, tugging on the invisible threads between us all, trying to find what tethers us together and, in turn, what keeps us here. Joyous and multilayered, this is a book that’s fast enough for the speed of information and powerful enough to stop you in your tracks. https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/new-releases/products/baby-cerberus

Book cover for Limbo by Sean Keith Henry (Akashic Books), depicting a small red tent amidst huge lavender trees and heavy snow. An African American man confronts a heart of darkness when his family moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Norway. https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/limbo/

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · Mar 15

Mar 15

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

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Book cover for Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University: Counting for Nothing? edited by Sunera Thobani (University of Toronto Press), with the bottom third the title and editor text, and the top two-thirds a painting of a person in mostly oranges and reds, with large circles surrounding squinting eyes. Examines the disruption and remaking of the university at a moment in history when white supremacist politics have erupted across North America, as have anti-racist and anti-colonial movements. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487523817

$Book cover for Familial Hungers: Poems by Christine Wu (Brick Books), depicting an alarmed-looking fish with its middle in cross-sections. Poems that reckon with identity, race, and fractured relationships through the lens of food. https://www.brickbooks.ca/shop/familial-hungers-by-christine-wu/$