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24/06/2025

Pictures of on the road with The Road Between Us 📸

Three Lives & Co




Grab a copy of this A+ summer read from your favourite bookstore 📚

23/06/2025

Entering the last week of June with a poem by Dag T. Straumsvåg from The Mountains of Kong: New and Selected Prose Poems, in English and Nynorsk:

June

They stand before the priest, never happier or more heroic than at this moment. The bride spots a fly crawling across the nose of the crucified Jesus and sneezes before she can answer. A mother stares at her child and can’t remember the father. Across the street, a man balances on a stool and washes his store window. A motorcycle cruises by. The priest looks up. There’s a light drizzle. Good weather for fishing, he thinks. He likes to fish, likes to stay out all day, even in the wind and pouring rain, even if the lake is empty. Out there, fishing, everything is of interest. Minnows, an old boot, the bottom.

Juni

Dei står føre presten og blir ikkje lykkelegare eller meir heltemodige enn dei er no. Brura ser ei fluge gå over nasen til den krossfesta Jesus og nys før ho svarar. Ei mor ser på ungen sin og kan ikkje hugse faren. På andre sida av gata balanserer ein mann på ein krakk og vaskar butikkvindauget sitt. Ein motorsykkel krusar forbi. Presten kikar ut. Regn i lufta. Godt fiskevêr, tenkjer han. Han likar å fiske, likar å vere ute heile dagen, sjølv når det blæs og regnet pøsar ned, sjølv når vatnet er tomt, står han der ute og fiskar. Alt er av interesse. Smolt, ein gamal støvel, botnen.

23/06/2025

Dag T. Straumsvåg, author of the poetry collection The Mountains of Kong, answers seven questions over at Touch the Donkey!

Dag T. Straumsvåg lives in Trondheim, Norway, and is the author and translator of ten books of poetry, including Nelson (Proper Tales Pres...

19/06/2025

📣 ONE YEAR of County Social! 📣

Can you believe a whole year has gone by since we published our first book?!

We’re still over the moon that Assembly’s first title was able to document so many of the incredible people making great things in our community - hearty thanks to everyone who talked to us, to for making it all happen, and for the assist.

We’re also super grateful to everyone who has picked up a copy so far. Thank you!

In the past year, book sales have raised over $2,200 for and we’d love to raise even more this year.

And don’t forget to visit all the hot spots listed in the book - you can find a map to them at a link in our bio.

Cheers!
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17/06/2025

📣 The Sensus Communis, Synesthesia, and the Soul is here! 📣

Published in partnership with and and featuring a new introduction by , The Sensus Communis is a fascinating odyssey that will dazzle the senses.

✨👁️✨👂✨👄✨👃✨🙏✨

Available now from your favourite bookseller 📚

16/06/2025

Story is a State of Mind by Sarah Selecky is New Non-Fiction reviewed by contributor Catherine Marcotte. Published by Assembly Press.

📚”I have the great fortune of buying donated books at a modest price from my local public library. I was browsing April’s offerings when I came across a particularly well-stocked shelf of books on writing.”

Catherine’s article continues ⬇️
https://miramichireader.ca/2025/06/story-is-a-state-of-mind-by-sarah-selecky/

10/06/2025

“The Seers reminds us that a thousand ways of love always—always—remain.”—Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex

“An incandescent howl of anti-colonial rage and insatiable desire.”—Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young and Aftermath

“Tremendous . . . Affords refugees the dignity of bodies and eros and yearning and corporeal curiosity.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr

04/06/2025

Sarah Selecky and Story Is a State of Mind hit the road this spring 🚗 🗺️ ✍️ 📚 ✨






✨Order your copy from your favourite independent bookstore ✨

29/05/2025

✨Cover reveal ✨for The Orange Notebooks by Susanna Crossman

“The patient’s breakdown was triggered by the death of her son, Louis. In her accompanying letter, Anna writes Lou’s death was time—there was a before and an after… The notebooks document her four months at the hospital, but also her relationship with Louis’s father, a record of a bright life between London and France, crossing the Channel, a liquid bridge, and the journey she took in June 2013 with another patient. The latter was part of Anna’s delusional conviction that she would meet her son again. She entered what she called an upside-down world, and went to rescue Louis, thinking she could put the world back the right way up.”

Cover design by the super talented .grg

Available for preorder now in Canada and the US from your favourite bookseller

UK edition is out now from

21/05/2025

Spring has barely sprung, but we can’t resist sharing a sneak peek of what we’re working on for fall 2025:

📣 The Orange Notebooks (September 2): Told through a mother’s journals written while interned in a French psychiatric ward, Susanna Crossman’s English-language fiction debut is a novel about love, and the lost language and rituals of mourning.

📣 Goose (October 7): Melanie Dennis Unrau’s latest poetry collection retraces unconscious lines of thought and flight to write a new history of Alberta’s tar sands, using S.C. Ells’s Northland Trails as a source text.

📣 Letters of Marshall McLuhan (Nov 4): A selection of enlightening correspondence from the originator of “The Medium Is the Message,” available for the first time in over 25 years.

Learn more on our website (link in bio)! These are all
now available for preorder from your favourite bookseller, or you can make a request through your local library. 📚

16/05/2025

"One of the most exciting things about writing is that both the process and result is so unpredictable and changeable. (You know, like making spaghetti.)"

For our Short Story Month series , Gary Barwin discusses his favourite short story writers, writing everywhere, and his new collection SCANDAL AT THE ALPHORN FACTORY (Assembly Press).

https://alllitup.ca/the-short-of-it-gary-barwin-scandal-at-the-alphorn-factory/