Another week older and deeper in debt. But you’re here. Good work.
- Did you, like me, think anti-racist reading lists are new? Nope. We’re just finally starting to pay proper attention;
- Are you an old Boomer lady who gets fluttery watching The Outlander? Well, do I have good news for you!;
- Are you a millennial who grew up reading Animorphs? Well, do I have good (possibly horrifying) news for you!;
- Are you a disaffected Gen X nerd-survivor who finds the nostalgia of Stranger Things makes you almost have genuine feelings, maybe, you think, perhaps, but who knows? Well, do I have good news for you!’
- Are you a baby from as-yet-undefined generation who doesn’t want to grow into a racist world your ancestors created? Well, have I got good news for you!
- NBCC is looking into its abyss and has delayed its awards until things are figured out;
- RIP: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author, 55;
- Crystalline books are art;
- Arthur C. Clarke shortlist revealed;
- Little punky Insomniac Press gets new mandate and board;
- Anne Carson throws Spain’s Asturias award into her trophy room and gets back to business robbing the dead for the living;
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