Jesus, these fucking pieces just keep coming. But I suppose it’s better to know than not. So, I’m going to try to jam all the Covid19 articles together today so we don’t have to visit this part of Mentalanguishtown in every post.
- Are books actually essential during this? Two agents say no;
- Bookninja favourite Stacey May Fowles interviews a bunch of writers on how their lives have changed (the first one is particularly interesting to me);
- Are you a school librarian? SLJ is looking for your input as per above;
- CBC is launching some sort of Covid writing thing;
- Portuguese novelist collaborate on novel Coronavirus novel;
- Little free libraries become little free pantries;
- But do colouring books and crosswords really count as “books”?;
- Libraries launching Covid Archive to document our decline;
- Wired looks at the changing landscape of bookselling;
- Amazon fires warehouse worker who asked for safer conditions around the pandemic and the courts are looking into it (now to look into how to force them to pay their taxes);
- South African publishing industry might disappear altogether;
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