If the American map images on disease spread/protesting data were for fires instead, you’d assume the place had been nuked. Up here, we are doing much better in terms of pandemic (and in my corner of up here, even better still), and we’re working through our own issues around race and reconciliation, though not nearly quick enough. That said, a few articles caught my attention as sort of “state of the pandemic” pieces in separate ways:

- Authors who released a book this spring speak out on what it’s like to publish during cultural change;
- Do we need to radically rethink the online book event?;
- The pandemic brought many more e-readers online… so what are we going to do with/about that?;