- Mary Trump’s book about her sociopath uncle has sold more in 3 weeks than “his” book Art of the Deal did in 29 years;
- Demand drives book industry charity org to hire more staff;
- Giller Foundation donates $50K to to two BIPOC lit orgs;
- What happens when you’re up for the biggest award of your life and one of the others on the shortlist is your pal? Two Booker contenders dish;
- Ta-Nehisi Coates to guest edit entire issue of Vanity Fair;
- Hey, you Anne-dicts, LM Montgomery’s OG handwritten MS is going online for you to needlessly pass your eyes over;
- Oprah is still kicking about, it seems;
- Even the Shouts & Murmurs columnists are getting movie deals these days… and with my pal Ryan Reynolds (full disclosure: Reynolds may not yet be aware we are platonic soul mates);
- RIP: Pete Hammill, NYC’s inner animal and journalist, dead at 85;
- A brief guide to comic book art styles;
- The Millions looks at must-read books coming up, including ‘Ninja fav Eduardo Corral;
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