Alright, vacation is over, maggots, and your mama ain’t here to protect you anymore. So, stop relaxing and get back to fretting. It’s time to start worrying about school and how capitalism doesn’t care if you and your children are safe, it just wants everything back the way it was unless you can think of something more profitable for the people at the top. Now drop and give me 20! (Pages, folks, pages. I’m not a monster.)
- How do you open a bookshop during a pandemic? Meticulously;
- Forget bookshops, how do you open libraries when schools have decided to take the viral jambalaya/gumbo approach to throwing students back into the bubbling pot of bodily fluids;
- Indigenous SciFi writers are changing the genre;
- PW looks at diversity efforts in the time of BLM;
- Graphic (as in comics) essay on what it’s like to lose your first language;
- Twilight author planning two more dumptrucks of
cashwords; - Big spike in print sales for August;
- “Don’t expect more historical fiction from me” says Hillary Mantel to the relief of semi-educated party-goers who get trapped in the corner listening to regurgitated Cromwell facts every weekend;
- Pro sportsballers, the Toronto Raptors, team up with PRH for kids stuff;
- Discoverability something something ONIX and Thelma;
- Some hilarious classic lit reviews from readers without fucks left to give;
- A little Alice Oswald in the New Yorker is never a bad thing;
- I went through a Faulkner phase in my early 20s, then I came to the corn cob scene and backed slowly out of the room… The Irish Times wonders if The Sound and the Fury is America’s Ulysses;
- Do you miss reading Babysitter’s Club? Luckily there seems to be an adult nannies sub-genre for you;
- Ian Williams has a book about race coming from Random Penguin Houses;
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