Well, it’s June. Where I live, we try to not speak of this month-long slog of chilly moistness, and fog. Or if we do, we refer to it as “The Dampening”. But it’s undoubtedly better where you are. Enjoy.
- Agents resign over owners’s stupid Tweets;
- JK Rowling publicly threatens to bring might of a billionaire’s lawyers down on a Canadian transwoman who criticized her on Twitter (note: the Tweet did go into some grey area, legally-speaking, but only if you read it out of context of what else the sudden-TERF-supporter Rowling has been up to lately);
- Mysteries and romances surge in lockdown popularity;
- Bunch of comic titles going digital only;
- Big D&D movie delayed by The Rona;
- An Irish writer had to learn to love Heaney’s poetry? Seems unlikely. As a Belfast type, I thought they coded his words into our DNA at birth?;
- Library Journal translates the science of reopening plans into English;
- On the founder of modern American poetry, Emily Dickinson;
- This isn’t bookish, but it was interesting: how bands got their names;
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