It’s kind of too nice here to be doing Bookninja, but I’m going to finish out this week then take a week or two off to vacation around the our apparently Covid-free province. Just don’t do anything interesting during that time.

- Curbside Larry is the hero we need and deserve;
- Jael Ricardson and FOLD doing ever more good work;
- Book folk launch auction to end racism;
- Publishing continues to get shaken up by progress;
- Voting is open for the Not-The-Booker-Prize shortlist, and you have 210 books to choose from for some ungodly reason;
- New Stephen King novel gets spring release;
- Vancouver Sun interviews always-interesting young person Raziel Reid;
- Merve Emre, who, frankly, most people in this house have some level of crush on, writes about the literary “Longing Man”;
- PRH takes a stand on office safety;
- Latin: it’s all Greek to Sean Hannity;
- This author is leading a secret life as a public school teacher (much like I am leading a secret life as middle-aged white guy who is trying to grasp even the very basics of what it means to be alive and good at the same time);
- NYPL partners with Time Out to bring daily story time to kids online;
- Covid book camp run by bookstores in Brooklyn;
- Speaking of kids books and Covid: Good Morning, Zoom, is now a thing;