- I don’t like linking to reviews of books because they’re not really news, but I do like linking to pieces that take the piss out of MFA programs… Oh, what to do?;
- BIPOC publishing group in Canada has new mentorship award;
- Sally Rooney is getting Beebed;
- Look! In Ottawa! Is it a government building? Is it a post office? No! It’s Super Library!;
- How does this not have the headline: “Vowel movements“? (audio at link);
- Authors at Hay decry UAE free speech abuses;
- Ten things you didn’t know about Neil Gaiman (I had always suspected the part about the retractable pouch flap below his chin that hid his eldritch horror tentacles, but I never thought we’d find out for sure);
- Bookninja friend and all around nice dude Ivan Coyote receives Freedom to Read Award;
- Dearly departed Toni Morrison among NAACP Image Award winners;
- The library overdue fee is an endangered species of
punishmentmild annoyance;
