What scares me almost as much as the pandemic itself is the idea that gun owner background checks are up over 40% in the US (where Cheeto in Chief has declared guns sellers an essential service — and this isn’t even including the people stockpiling illegal weapons.) Imagine: a population dumb enough to elect that clueless shit stain of a con man, but also armed to the teeth. Can’t they just stress eat like everyone else instead of prepping for their never-ending civil war?
- International Booker shortlist lead by women, including a 28 year-old debut novelist;
- NAC launches #canadaperforms with Margaret Atwood;
- This list of what your quarantine reading says about you has a great DFW burn at the end;
- Read the John Boyne kid-story-contest winners;
- Some writing prompts to get the rugrats prepped for the next contest;
- Did you want to know more about Thomas Hardy’s second marriage? Finally, your dreams have come true;
- Google map of bookstores willing to deliver;
- Goodnight with Dolly — bedtime stories by everyone’s cool aunt;
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