- Publishers make promises around diversifying;
- Forward Poetry Prize lists look good;
- Indy bookstore declines to take stand, gets roasted on the Twitters;
- George Martin to announce release date for Winds of Winter? I may be calling down the dogs of war upon myself, but I enjoyed the show far more than the first book that I tried to read and eventually put down;
- The Stratford Fest admitted systemic racism, gave black voices a space;
- NYC publishers won’t reopen until Sept;
- Petrified wood bookends (for people who have too much space on their shelves and need support to keep them standing… baffling);
- Dickens getting some love at 150 years dead;
- I am just about up to here with uplifting verse, but if you’re not, you can get some over the phone in Ireland;
- Shirley Jackson Award nominees;
- Wales, the British country everyone forgets about, is reopening libraries (my family is very “British”, without being English… We have Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the genealogy, but no English to speak of… The conquered only, never the conqueror);
- NZ is culling a public book collection by over a half million?;
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