In America, the band is still playing (spoiler: it’s the theme from Dukes of Hazzard) as the ship sinks, but up here it’s just another Monday, so here is your news for today:
- Bookstores dropping Rowling, well, the sort I shop at anyway;
- Authors from around the world on coping with Covid;
- Brain-tickler of the day: is W a vowel? Don’t even get me started on H;
- Happy 50th to stalwart feminist press Verso;
- Books you need to know about but don’t want to read? There’s an app for that;
- BBC asks, “What are the challenging books we need right now?” and it looks like their answer is: mostly books by white people, highlighting, among others David Foster Wallace and Harold Bloom… oh, Beebs;
- On the rise of the bookshelf as an aesthetic;
- Pandemic beats down lit stocks;
- 20-something novelists make me sick and give me hope;
- New longform non-fiction series in hardback out of Alberta;
- Reminder that China is still a shithole for free thought;
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