The Bookworm

10/11/2026

Have a lovely holiday! This is a reminder that The Bookworm will be closed Monday October 12. Keep reading!

10/10/2026

It's a BEAUTIFUL day for book shopping! Come into The Bookworm until 4pm!

Towering bookshelves, a rolling ladder, vintage furniture, and stacks of books everywhere. 📚❤️ A beautifully chaotic literary hideaway where every corner holds a treasure and there's simply no such thing as too many books!

10/09/2026

Remember our previous post, about something spooky for Halloween? Keep watching our page...

10/08/2026

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10/08/2026

Wow!

BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

Anne Carson was born in 1950 in Toronto, Canada. In 1981, she published her doctoral thesis in Classics entitled ‘Odi et Amo Ergo Sum’, and has, throughout her entire career, combined poetry writing with translation work and teaching at various universities. Almost all her literary production has centred upon the intersection between the philologist’s obsession with words and the poet’s desire for new meaning. She has herself identified the etymology of words as the starting point for all her work. Her translations from Classical Greek may be regarded as independent works in their own right. Among these is her interpretation of Sappho’s poem fragments, ‘If Not, Winter’ (2002), along with tragedies such as Sophocles’s ‘Electra’ (2001) and ‘Antigone’ (2015) and Euripides’s ‘Bakkhai’ (2015).

In the 1990s, Carson published a series of notable works. Among these is ‘The Glass Essay’ in ‘Glass, Irony, and God’ (1995), which demonstrates the potential of the long poem where genre boundaries are seen to blur.

The same decade saw the publication of another work, often heralded as Carson’s greatest, entitled ‘Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse’ (1998). This demonstrates her eminent ability to actualise the classical literary tradition. With a precise feel for contemporary idioms and experiences, she takes as her starting point poem fragments by the sixth century BC Greek poet Stesichoros concerning the winged red monster Geryon.

Throughout her entire authorship, Carson with a light touch explores the possibilities of writing, a process by which the literary sketch has become of particular value to her. Bearing witness to this is ‘Float’ (2016), a work consisting of twenty-two chapbooks on different subjects, capable of being read in any order. Another is ‘Wrong Norma’ from 2024, a diverse combination of texts with a strongly performative aspect in which Carson crosses over into various artistic and academic fields. Her collaborations with visual artists and choreographers and with opera and theatre directors demonstrate the freedom with which she relates to literary expectations and rule systems. It is this that lies behind the outstanding importance her work since the 1990s has had for the international art and literature scene.

Anders Olsson
Chair of the Nobel Committee

Learn more about the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature: https://bit.ly/4hnkhNO

10/08/2026

The Dead (authors) Book Club at University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Institute. Reading for pleasure! Radical!
Full reading list available. And a Mystery Librarian who helped choose the books! Now whoever could that be? (Available slots filled up on first day. Wild enthusiasm! That could happen at Your university, too!)

10/07/2026

Sense and Sensibility, in theaters Oct 16, has been my comfort read for over a decade, and thanks to George MacKay’s take on Edward Ferrars, it’s about to become my entire personality. I also can’t wait to watch the Dashwood sisters lose their fortune and keep their composure. I’ve only managed the first half.

10/07/2026

Is your fall cleaning underway? We are ready to receive more books. Summer sales were great (thank you!) and that means we have space once again. Biggest need: children's books. Please refer to our donation guidelines to help us best. Thanks again!