
- Booker longlist was announced yesterday and Hillary Mantel leads the pack once again;
- Eisner Award for best writing goes to Mariko Tamaki;
- Want to actually sell books? Merch them next to the toilet paper;
- Books that predicted the future;
- The New Yorker has an elegy for the landline in stories (no more “he twirled the cord around his finger as he picked up the receiver”);
- Not a fan of organized shelves, but I know there’s a few Type-As out there;
- Anne with an E petition breaks record;
- Caine Prize goes to Irenosen Okojie;
- Book of Negroes re-airing is important for a number of reasons, but most urgently … [gestures vaguely at entire world];