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Multiple Division

As if high school isn’t hard enough

Grief Observed

A portrait of loss

A Developing Situation

Scenes of the first five waves

James Lindsay

James Lindsay works in publishing in Toronto. He is the author of Only Insistence and other books.

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James Lindsay

Confessions of a Bookseller

You can take my word for it March 2025
For fifteen years I was a bookseller in Toronto. I would spend four to eight hours a day, three to six days a week talking about books, most of which I’d never read. I had my tastes and my preferred genres, but I also tried to keep up on what was selling well and what was winning…