The Hamilton Review of Books has long been one of my favourite publications. (Completely coincidentally, they named Every Night… one of their books of 2024.) And they have now kindly featured an excerpt from one of the key stories in the book, “Like Triumph.”

It includes one of my favourite lines, “We used to play pool on College Street: one ball would hit another.” Not a “big” or lyrical line, I know, but in an oblique way it connects themes and moments from throughout the collection: nostalgia, relationships, institutions, causality, snooker… And the book is all about such fragmentary connections.

Thanks, Hamiltonians!