Again? Already? Wasn’t it just Tuesday last week? I am beginning to think The ‘Rona goes after Time as much as the lungs. When I was a teen, I used to write (mostly really bad) scifi stories, and I had one where a guy in a post-apocalyptic wasteland (gather round, young’uns: back in the 80s “post-apocalypse” meant “after the nuclear strikes”) was was in possession of the last timepiece with accurate time on it. He was transporting it across the wastes to a science compound. He kept thinking everyone was out to get him. But no one cared what time or day it was. They just wanted either human contact or his booze. Oh my god. I’m a prophet.
- The Bookseller to highlight books impacted by pandemic… Get on this, all book trade magazines!;
- Jericho Brown (and some other people too) wins Pulitzer;
- Roger Robinson’s poems win Ondaatje Prize;
- Sue Goyette will make an AMAZING Poet Laureate for Halifax;
- Hans Christian Andersen Awards handed out;
- Janet Rogers launches new Indigenous poetry press;
- Basically there’s probably a red phone in every Hollywood producer’s home that when it goes off, they scramble for it because it’s Stephen King telling them he has a new book for adaptation;
- My old haunt, The Book Shelf, will now bring wine with your books;
- Do you know or care what metadata is? If so, click here;
- Marvel is coming back in May;
- Apocalypse survival tips from Margaret Atwood;
- Madeleine L’Engle was shaped by pandemic;
- Canisia Lubrin and others are WT Rising Stars… Huh, I actually would have said she is already a star… Light years ahead of most of her peers;
- The Paperback Game: for people who don’t own boardgames;
- Celebrating unlikable women in fiction;
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