One day more until you can relax and just be stressed about the state of the world only, instead of the world and your job and your kids and your friends who are sliding into conservatism and the likelihood that you’re going to explode and make a mess of every relationship you ever had if you don’t get a friggin beer into you right away.
- Happy Pride! Archive of One, America’s first Gay magazine;
- Did you guys see Lorrie Moore losing it on Millennials? Don’t agree with some of it, but those sentences must have been delicious to write… I sort of imagine her hunched at her computer licking her teeth like a psychopath planning the demise of an enemy;
- RIP: Joanna Cole, author of Magic Schoolbus books, dead at 75;
- NBCC board rebuilt with focus on diversity;
- How fantasy lit helped created the 20th Century (finally! someone to blame!);
- Toronto WOTS breaking out of one day format;
- Lisa Lucas leaves NBF to head Pantheon;
- Anime hero Miyazaki recommends books your kids should read;
- While we’re on kids: 20 black-authored kids books;
- I’m halfway through Desmond Cole’s The Skin We’re In and I glad to see it on bestseller lists... we all need to read this… And we need to use it to get a prybar into our education system so kids are learning this stuff in high school, not late in life like me;
- YOINK: Great Gatsby prequel scheduled for pub four days after copyright expires on the original;
- Who wrote Wuthering Heights?;
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