You know, I woke up yesterday thinking, okay, the little ones are home and the big ones are en route form university, so let’s hunker down, do some homeschooling, and and hygge the fuck out of this crisis. Today I woke up and was thinking, Wah, I want to go out, I have no more knowledge to impart, and there’s no propane for the fire. My survivalism is a work in progress.
- Globe on Canadian publishers dealing with The ‘Rona;
- Canadian writers sharing readings online;
- How to support your local indy without leaving home (will be driving this message home as often as the articles appear during this time of “population balancing”);
- Emily St. John Mandel on pandemics in Time;
- Covid comics;
- That’s going in the book… — the NYT says we’ll see pandemic novels soon enough (I often make this joke whenever I see something even vaguely poetic trending in the news…. “Oh, hear that? It’s the sound of a million middling poets writing the same poem at the same time without knowing the idea will be cliche by the time it sees print.”);
- Macmillan abandons embargoes on e-books at libraries;
- His watch has not ended — Nerds breathe sigh of relief that George Martin isn’t dead of the ‘Rona and an even bigger sigh to hear he’s actively working on the book that never was;
- List of library-related closures and cancellations;
- Amazon suspends seller program — this is going to crush a few lives for sure, but I suspect Amazon will be fine;
- Sydney Writers Fest cancelled;
- Frye and Blue Met too, but offering some online content;
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