I mean, is there really any other news today than the letter? Wait… “The Letter”. Needed caps. And perhaps a gothic, church organ soundtrack. Here’s what would have been covered if the entire literary world wasn’t sharpening long knives in their respective dark rooms.
- I have no idea what happened at Lexicon, but it can’t be good;
- Wee reminder that Alex Trebek and Jim Carey have books coming;
- Barnes & Noble? More like Law & Order;
- Margaret Atwood was tweeting support for transgender communities right before she signed a letter calling for (I realize I’m cherry picking here) tolerance of JK Rowling’s views against transpeople… Can’t we have a day in which everyone just behaves at least consistently, if not well?;
- Is a music novel impossible? David Mitchell says so;
- RIP: Henry Martin, New Yorker cartoonist, dead at 94;
- All Canadian “Guest of Honour” programming at Frankfurt delayed to 2021;
- Who said it: Fiona Apple or Virginia Woolf?;
- The juice on Trump via his niece (I imagine “Trump juice” to be like that unidentified oily liquid one might find at the bottom of a dumpster that hasn’t been emptied for an entire August… what I call “rat’s bourbon”… You’re welcome for the smell that is now in your nose for an hour);
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