Oh, Gateau Ghost, Bricolage, Tiger Baby. You know I love you, right? I do! But what we really really need on that stretch of College is a good green grocer, not another coffee and clay shop. So, as you were. But let’s hope we can welcome new friends and neighbours who bring fresh fruits and vegetables to the ‘hood.

The books selected by this year’s @GillerPrize jury are incandescent. They glow with stubborn light; the quietest voices rise loudest, and on every page, these stories insist on their own future. These five books represent Canadian fiction – daring, original, textured and thought-provoking – at its finest

Introducing #Booktalk, a new and exclusive partnership between @GillerPrize and Book Bar Toronto, the city's newest and buzziest literary venue. First up on October 27 is Michael Redhill in conversation with André Alexis about Redhill's latest novel, The Trial of Katterfelto, a genre-bending, existential novel that brings together near-future dystopia and atmospheric historical fiction. Tickets here bit.ly/4iJQJv6

I must mention the great Canadian writers who have supported the @booksforinmates program with author visits, like @waub, @TanyaTalaga and Lawrence Hill, among others, and who’ve given stirring testimonials about their experience.

We're grateful that, through our partnership with Book Clubs for Inmates, my team and I got the chance to visit a federal women's prison earlier this week. The experience was humbling, transformative, painful and beautiful by turns. The individuals who work at these facilities labour tirelessly on behalf of the incarcerated women to provide education, books and other vital resources. They are the unsung: they receive no rewards, awards, recognition or prizes. They attend to the work at hand. That work helps incarcerated women move from medium security to minimum, where they get more free time and greater access to the compound's libraries. Books can't unlock cell doors, but they can and do unlock imagination, information and pathways to the outside world. The library is the haven and respite the women inside prize most. The library shelves in the minimum security facility groan under the weight of so many books - fiction, non-fiction, steamy romances, self-help, biographies and more than a few Giller titles we donated through our partnership with Book Clubs for Inmates. We are indebted to Tom Best, Sarah Smith-Eivemark and Peter Stuart for their leadership, support, guidance and goodness in helping us make this partnership a reality, and for letting us experience, even a tiny bit, what life might be like without the luxuries we so take for granted.

The Giller Prize receives transformational gift from the Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation, in honour of the late Hilary M. Weston instagram.com/stories/giller…

Got to hang with these two titans of modern #Canlit at last week's @amazonca First Novel Award. Conor Kerr and Kyle Edwards are among the finest of Canada's many fine literary treasures. #Canlit #Canadianliterature #Canadianfiction

An amazing night at the @glenngouldfndn gala last night to honour Sir Elton John with the 15th annual @glenngouldofficial prize. And what a tribute it was. The joint was lousy with rabid fans, an incredible lineup of artists - @jdutchermusic! Sarah Maclachlan! @ronsexsmithmusic - and more. @thebeachesband The Bitch is Back was killer

Dog v machine. Part deux.

So grateful to be on PEN Canada’s Advisory Board and to see the incredible authors on the 2026 New Voices Award jury. Support PEN Canada, an organization that defends freedom of expression, aids writers in peril around the world and celebrates the power of the written word

Two titans of Canadian literature in conversation for our first #BookTalk event of 2026 at @unionhotelto last night. @susanswanauthor interviewed @jane_urquhart - one of the greatest writers of our times - about her novel 'In Winter I Get Up at Night', a bold and deeply moving work of imagination and self-inquiry Bit h/t to @katherineashenburg for the question and answer

Nick Cave on the current moment facing the arts and artists. Culture should be 'a space for free-ranging and diverse ideas, a place of vitality and originality that encourages disagreement and good faith debate, (but that) is being sucked down the sinkhole of a single monolithic ideology — one voice, one cause, one dissent. theredhandfiles.com/film-fes…

Just leaving this here. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, '8 Days (Of Hanukkah)' (Tiny Desk Version) youtu.be/PSzo2bbvnTQ?si=a8SN… via @YouTube

Amaryllis me, baby! With thanks to ⁦@donlon⁩

And what a time we had last night! A magical evening full of creative energy, communion, love and support. Writers, publishers, booksellers, donors and culture lovers came together to celebrate the finest of Canadian literature. The pictures tell a thousand stories.

They don’t call it the Giller Effect for nothing