Breaking: still a nuthouse out there. Better to stay home and read insouciant book blogs. Unless you have to fortify the razor-wire perimeter, reload the automated turrets, and reset the serrated spike traps. In which case, do that first then come back here for a cup of tea while browsing.
- RIP: John Prine, 73, of Covid19 (preferred over Dylan by a longshot);
- Dylan Thomas Prize fer the young’uns shortlist;
- Pandemic postpones Pulitizer Prize;
- Bunch of authors in the NYer on living in the pandemic;
- Amazon: great if you’re a white supremacist, not so much if you’re an employee or tax payer shouldering their share of the burden;
- Hey, nerds! Hugo shortlists are out!;
- Canadian comic book awards;
- Bady day for poetic justice: UK government will not be turning Oscar Wilde’s former prison into an arts centre;
- Lockdown erotica for the win? (Baby, you can leave your mask on?);
- When Ingram goes, everyone follows;
- Orwell Prize shortlist includes…. Orwell;
Bookninja 