- Did Dean Koontz predict Coronavirus? Listen, the dude has like 6000 books. You say enough things, at least one of them is bound to happen;
- I love them all. Just look at their fresh faces, as yet unmarred by the reality of being writers;
- Has World Book Day become Halloween (aka a holiday co-opted by capitalism to sell people junk)?;
- Indy presses in Canada hit hard this week;
- Classy move by Taylor Prize finalist Ziya Tong;
- ViacomCBS is selling Simon & Schuster because they want to concentrate on getting dumber;
- Plague lit is going like disease-ridden hotcakes in Italia (unless that country has changed radically since I lived there in the 90s, I can only imagine how hard this pandemic is going to hit their spotty infrastructure);
- Transphobia row in Scottish poetry…. Sometimes I look at my ancestral land through fingers over my face and shake my head;
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