Hello. I'm Michael Hingston, an author, publisher, and bookseller in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

My newest book is Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda (Biblioasis, 2022). Michael Dirda of the Washington Post called it “wonderfully entertaining,” and Publishers Weekly described it as “a jaunty historical footnote.”

My other books are a history of Calvin and Hobbes called Let's Go Exploring (ECW, 2018) and the novel The Dilettantes (Freehand, 2013). I’m also the co-writer of Harnarayan Singh’s memoir One Game at a Time (McClelland & Stewart, 2020) and the ghostwriter of some other stuff.

My journalism has appeared in places like National Geographic, Wired, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Hazlitt, The Walrus, and The Globe and Mail. A selection of clips can be found here.

I'm also the creator of Edmontonia Trading Cards, and the co-founder of Hingston & Olsen Publishing, the outfit responsible for the Short Story Advent Calendar and other literary experiments. Ron Charles of the Washington Post called H&O "a little Canadian publisher whose creations remind us what e-books can’t do.”

These days I’m mostly the owner and operator of a fine new south-side bookshop called Porch Light Books.

Wait, are you just here for my email address? Search no further: hingston@gmail.com.