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16/09/2025

Really lovely write-up by Another Story Bookshop and team.

It was the best time.

15/09/2025

Filed the first few photos over the weekend from the book launch for the book launch for Arundhati Roy’s latest, Mother Mary Comes to Me. Roy was also in conversation with the singular Leanne Betasamosake Simpson at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto. Date: September 12th, 2025.

These images are from the rejects pile.

Arundhati ji spoke of ‘flattening’ throughout the day. The flattening of meaning, context, nuance, and to take colour images and shift them to a monochromatic tone felt appropriate.

Thanks again to indie bookstores, indie presses, their staff, volunteers, customers, communities, (landlords even …?), etc etc. It was a real treat to feel part of the Another Story Bookshop team. The event was co-presented by many partners, especially the Women and Gender Studies Department at the University of Toronto. Many thanks also to Simon & Schuster.

11/09/2025

“This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.”

Gate A-4, Naomi Shihab Nye ()

26/06/2025

Another warm day yesterday, so we had to be around some kinda cool.

Another Story Bookshop () is always good for this.

The book is about a Canadian-Lebanese Palestinian who returns to Lebanon. Yasmine reconnects with an old love interest and begins to uncover family secrets. The book is published by Fernwood Publishing ()

Tendisai Cromwell moderated the conversation. There were some good questions and just a very nourishing time.

Feels good to be in rooms like these.

14/01/2025

"When the Japanese established their writing system around 1600 years ago they adopted Chinese characters — kanji, literally Han characters — for both meaning and sound. Kanji was used in official correspondence and recordkeeping ..."

Designer and educator Angie Wang deciphers a collection of over 500 sleeves recently donated to the Archive.

25/11/2024

"This Element looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books and a site of resilience and possibilities. The first section studies the bazaar's spatiality - its location, relocation, and respatialisation. Three actors play a major role in creating and organising this spatiality: the sellers, the buyers, and the civic authorities. The second section narrativizes the biographies of the booksellers of Daryaganj to offer a map of the hidden social and material networks that support the informal modes of bookselling. Amidst order and chaos, using their specialised knowledge, Daryaganj booksellers create distinctive mechanisms to serve the diverse reading public of Delhi. Using ethnography, oral interviews, and rhythmanalysis, this Element tells a story of urban aspirations, state-citizen relations, official and unofficial cultural economies, and imaginations of other viable worlds of being and believing."

via Cambridge University Press

Two week open access:

Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar

01/10/2024

Long walkabout in Calgary over the weekend.

Reminded me that I hadn't posted one of these typographic/signage photosets in a little while.

28/09/2024

Lovely to finally spend some time with Faith Arkorful's () poetry collection, the seventh town of ghosts.

Café Books () in Canmore, Alberta is a spot I quite appreciate. Tried to introduce some locals, animate and otherwise to Faith's words and works.

A bit of time every week is spent trickling together a list of books I hope to read in this life. This book has been on that list for a while.

26/09/2024

by Gladzy Kei () and Allan Rosales (.b.rosales)

03/08/2024

Jordan Elgrably interviewed James Baldwin in Paris and St Paul de Vence for .

The Art of Fiction No. 78. Spring 1984.

28/06/2024

Jumu'ah mubarak (read: TGIF).

We are announcing an open call for submissions to our inaugural anthology. The theme is Power, Privilege, and Permission. Link in bio for more details.

Submissions are open until the end of June, 2025. The email for submissions is info[at]bul-bul.press.

25/06/2024

Patricia, Norwinn, and Bianca (we left a chair empty for her) have made something quite special through .co.

Maghabi Magkatabi roughly translates to 'weave side by side' (I should confirm this).

The offcuts from the spines of their book are available as bookmarks.