It’s Canada Day in Canada, Memorial Day in NL, and Fourth of July down in Jesusland Plaguetown. If you love your respective country, please stay home and set off some fireworks in your backyard, unless you’re drinking, then watch the Flanderses next door do theirs. If you don’t love your country, by all means go jump into the the sea of bad decision-making that is public mingling and remove yourself or others in your gene pool out of the equation.
- David Mitchell believes most writers envy musicians, and it’s true that I would give up everything I’ve done artistically just to have perfect pitch, but I also just wrote this aphorism: “Melody is just there so stupid people can remember the poem.” [ducks and runs for cover];
- Generation of former pre-teens squee-ing over Baby-Sitters Club show;
- More on minders of children addressed above;
- Diamond Distributors vs. the comic book store;
- Harry Potter fan culture taking steps away from Harry Potter creator over her anti-transgender stances;
- Racists being dropped by jobs and publishers — good riddance;
- Liberation Library provides books to… I can’t believe I’m about to type this… incarcerated children;
- Poetry vs. the pandemic;
- American conservative rag offers opinion on how to not run a book fest;
- Netflix is adapting Ian Reid’s first book with Kaufman at the helm;
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