You’d think a giant stay at home party would be more fun than this. At least we’re not in a bunker in 1983 looking forward to the next 20 years in a 10×10 cement prison with only canned food to see us through. You did bring a can opener, right? NOOOOOOOOO…….!!!!
- Are you following #readasonnet on Twitter? It’s got my volta all excited;
- Fictional characters who are good at social distancing;
- What to do when your endeavour gets CovidCancelled? Make an entire festival online;
- One of my old NYC haunts (The Strand) has laid off mostly everyone;
- You should have written a handwashing fairy tale;
- Annual Feed-the-Poets banquet goes foodless and online;
- Home school-ready books also up in sales;
- Amazon has stopped shipping non-essentials in parts of Europe;
- We need authors more than ever during crisis (back in 2002, I wrote an article recounting my experiences as the WTC nearly fell on me in Manhattan the year before and I asked why artists are the ones we turn to when things seem senseless… No one’s really answered that yet, but I see a pattern emerging…);
- On bookstores as frontline (well, maybe second row) workers;
- If there’s one thing we can hope for out of all this, it’s that the kids will learn about how connected the world is;
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