Dammit. I sometimes worry on Mondays that I am too flip or aggressive for those hungover from the loss of their weekend: Manic Monday! or Alright, maggots, the weekend is over and your mama ain’t here to protect you anymore, so drop and give me 20! Today I will try morose: just post some news and allow the dreary mists of June to seep slowly into my bones, rotting them from the inside.
- National Book Critics Circle leadership resigns over allegations of racism and amid privacy breaches;
- How will book publishing deal with Conservative authors?;
- What will independent publishing look like in a post-Covid world?;
- Super-smart Zadie Smith wrote a book of insta-essays during the pandemic, what the frig did you get done, you lazy ass?;
- This may be your only chance to finish Ulysses;
- Trump’s niece is set to publish a tell-all… Sadly, I don’t trust anyone from that gene pool;
- Bookstores being (wisely) cautious on opening;
- Book suggestions on neurodiverse authors;
- Philip Roth and Robert Stone were hedonists (CW: Philip Roth and Robert Stone);
- Weird little piece on publishing a second novel these days;
- Mariko Tamaki is taking Wonder Woman to super new places;
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