
- Hermione Granger for president 2020;
- Zadie Smith, someone who looks like Hermione from the movies, and that guy with the eyebrows who came along while I was gone are up for the Folio Prize;
- International Booker Longlist is heavy on small presses;
- RIP: Clive Cussler, 88;
- Buffy Sainte-Marie is getting into the picture book biz;
- Speaking of kids books, did you ever watch The Office?;
- The great Simon Armitage, a superman if ever there was one, is creating a fortress of solitude for poetry in Leeds (no novelists allowed);