Our daughter is moving back to St. John’s from Montreal today (her and her asthmatic boyfriend are literally fleeing the poor decision-making of that government and the bizarre behaviour of the people around this virus) so we’re going to be a bit busy. Here’s some news to see you through to Monday.
- The big news here is Barnes and Noble layoffs… some HUGE buyers/managers… Sad for book industry;
- Diversity in poetry might be expanding but there is still resistance;
- Remember that anti-racist reading is a good start towards being an ally, but it’s not enough on its own;
- First John McGahern prize awarded;
- Stephen King books organized by reader mood;
- If there was a real Captain America type superhero to fight fascism, he’d be an Englishman named George Orwell;
- UK indies reveal summer sellers;
- Speaking of superheroes: they’re everywhere. Like sand in your, ahem, recesses after a day at the beach. Movies, games, comics, toys, and now… Novels;
- Are you aware that Halsey wrote a book of poems?;
- On the untranslatable;
- What a time to be alive: the first ever online delivery of an Oxford Professor of Poetry Lecture is yours fro the watching:
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