Mrrphlbrrfph. (Translation: “Don’t look at me, I’m hideous.”)
- Canada Reads is starting, so that’s the end of other books news at CBC until it’s over… Go Megan!;
- B&N looking ahead;
- There’s no possible way Keanu could get any closer to my ideal friend because he already…. oh, wait, he’s writing comic books now… Swoon;
- Speaking of comics: whither the long-running indie series?;
- LRB editor Mary-Kay Wilmers is 82 and not done yet;
- Best summer novels ever written?;
- What happens when you can’t find a publisher for your book? You make it into a podcast and everyone who doesn’t want to spend a moment alone inside their own head listens to it to distract them from the Doppler-effect/approaching-klaxonscream that is awareness of their eventual death;
- Literary festival goes drive-thru;
- Grants available to NFP lit orgs stateside;
- On dismantling white supremacy entrenched in current public library systems;
- Writing advice from Curtis Sittenfeld;
- Comic Frank Skinner to release book on how to enjoy poetry;
- Author Anonymous: not just for pervs;
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