Okay, so unless Joyce Carol Oates’ foot decomposes and recomposes into a hallucinatory goo-demon that would put Tetsuo in Akira to shame, I’m probably only posting what’s below today for two reasons: 1) I saw my best pal last night for a deeply satisfying round of beers on a patio downtown, something we used to do once a week, but now do about once every 6 months, it seems, meaning I’m a lightweight who’s hungover, and 2) I have a tattoo appointment in an hour and a half and need to jam my entire day into that time because as I suspect the vast majority of you know, even a small scheduled event entirely ruins the day for work thereafter.
- Hey, Orange Underwear Stain posing as president: it’s READING fiction that makes good leaders, not speaking it;
- OPEN LETTER ALERT: NBCC members write about how to diversify;
- IFOA, or whatever it’s being called now, will take its big-top show, including its yearly program to ghettoize poets, entirely online this year;
- On the rise of the celebrity-curated book club;
- Spotify branching into audio books;
- Grown up messages hidden in kids’ books;
- Netflix’s Bookmarks series spotlights Black experiences;
- As the Boomer’s hit condos-without-stairs age, we’ll see more and more articles about downsizing homes, including…. GASP….. books;
- What’s your latest overdue library book ever? Bet it doesn’t match 100 years;
- RIP: Allan Fotheringham, journalist, dead at 87;
- New lit awards for diversity in spec fic;
- Witherspoon book club pics YA title for first book;
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