It’s Friday. You are here. What happened, happened. Let it go for a brief moment and inhale your 5pm freedom. Three deep breaths. I mean, once you finish the commute and aren’t on a carbon monoxide saturated superhighway full of other dead-eyed people waiting to do something they actually want to. If you’re Priding this weekend, enjoy and stay 7 more feet apart than usual at Pride events.

- Happy Pridetimes! Trans author receives huge deal in bidding war;
- Happy Pridetimes! Here are some new LGBTQ+ SciFi books to read;
- Happy Pridetimes! I always imagined that people working on Rowling’s books would just wander around the office pantomiming homerun swings and high-fiving each other while doing very little actual editing of her words… How’d that work out in the end? Her sales are dropping;
- Sad Pridetimes… RIP: Daniel David Moses, Canadian playwright and poet, dead at 68;
- Mary Trump’s book sets publishing first day sales record;
- These cult classics have been cancelled;
- Crime fiction needs to examine its role in police violence;
- Poets versus the police… in Toronto… in the 60s… but, let’s not forget that poetry activism aside, Acorn was no hero, by any stretch of the imagination;
- On dreading the publication of your own book;
- Faith-based anti-racism books? What a time to be alive!;
- The best early novels you’ve never heard of at the BBC who actually posted some books content and tagged it as such for a change;