
- All-star reading of James and the Giant Peach includes Taika Watiti, Meryl Streep, hunka-hunka-burnin’ Thor, and others;
- Abundance of precaution: 72-quarantine for books at Waterstones;
- Hachette launches indie assistance programme;
- Sharon Olds is amazing;
- Women clean up at Irish kids book awards;
- Neil Gaiman apologizes for breaking the ‘Rona rules;
- Publishers are loving the ‘Rona books…;
- … but they’re kind of done with dystopia in general;
- On “radical” publishing in a pandemic;
- “There once was a small-handed wussy / Who said, Just grab em by the… etc…” On presidential poetry;
- Imagine being 16 during this. Now, imagine being 16 and autistic. Now, imagine being 16, autistic, and a writer being told you’re the next big thing…;