You made it to Friday again, ninjas. You’re in the home stretch. Finish out this rotten week and stare into the abyss of possibility that is your weekend. Look at all that freedom, just there, glistening on the edge of 5pm. It’s calling to you. “Drink meeeeee” it’s saying. “Driiiiiiink meeeeeeee…” Who are you to defy it?

- I never understood bookends… they presuppose free space on bookshelves, no?;
- Bill Clinton and James Patterson teaming up again to write novel no one asked for;
- TPL has 1M books outstanding;
- Faulkner’s wife and daughters were pranksters;
- Learning to love without touching via books (how this article exists without mentioning The Remains of the Day is beyond me)
- Times are tough: indie Hunter Street Books goes to bookstore-within-knickknacks-store-model… I mean, I suppose the Reismann playbook worked for Indigo?;
- Book sales improve, but future is still in question;
- 27 year old debut Irish novelist who looks like every girl you ever had a crush on (in grade 10) gets 6 figure deal;
- Alaska backs down on book bans in schools;
- I understood the word “audiobook”, but all the “ONIX from EDItEUR” part is lost on me;
- Did you know that Brian Brett got Covid? Poor fella. Here’s his story;