Do you worship or pay respect to something higher than yourself? God? Allah? The spirit of spring renewal? A divine clockmaker? The benevolent lich named Jesus? The early and mid-career works of Radiohead? That angel that didn’t kill your kid? The works of Seamus Heaney and Samuel Beckett (each born OTD)? Well, this sure seems to be the time of year for you! Hope you find some comfort and happiness in your rituals, even without the ability to share them face to face with friends and family.
- You knew it was coming: pandemic terms getting added to dictionaries worldwide;
- And here’s the slang version;
- The slippers and ratty hoodie of literature: comfort reads;
- Nothing is normal, so reject normalcy: a drag queen talks 7 how-to books;
- Should your agent be submitting your book right now?;
- Access Copyright donates to extend relief fund for writers;
- Here that? It’s the sound of 1000 poets groaning, thinking, “Damn, I should have done that!”
- On the importance of writing to Islam;
- On editing solo;
- I’ve made pilgrimages to only three or four bookstores around the world, which is to say I went to them like a tourist attraction — Shakespeare and Co in Paris, The Strand in NYC, and City Lights in SF. Well, City Lights is on its last legs and looking for donations to stay afloat. Hard time to be at that, but if you have a dollar to spare….
- In praise of short books (Waiting for the Barbarians!!);
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