- Merriam-Webster updates definition of “racism” thanks to some good advocacy by this woman;
- The BBC looks at what constitutes “proper English”;
- Queer POC poetry collections to check out (including some favs);
- As sales of black books soar, publishers suddenly want black authors…Hm, what took them so long? Oh, right, our racism;
- What poems do the poets read in crisis?;
- I can’t tell you how many Sendak books have gone through this house;
- What winning an award like the Trillium meant to these writers;
- BookNet looks at an example of a store weathering the pandemic;
- NEA announces investment in lit orgs;
- Beaverton takes on Book huffing;
- Three Lives (a bookstore I spent an inordinate amount of time in when I lived in Manhattan) switches business models;
- Google releases drones to carry books to children (and eventually nuclear payloads as decreed by our new robot overlords);
