- It’s Independent Bookstore Day this weekend, apparently… Celebrate with a bottle of the cheapest wine you can find and brick wall to smack you head off repeatedly to distract from the screaming existential pain of being alive;
- Authors in India walk out on Bloomsbury after book cancellation;
- Dayne Ogilvy emerging LGBTQ+ writer award shortlist;
- Bronwen Wallace shortlist for emerging poets and fiction writers;
- Vanity Fair’s masthead diversifies;
- Did you know it’s Environmental Lit Day? Go read about it on some dead trees or right here, on a collection of strip-mined rare minerals and non-recyclable plastics with fossil-fuel-generated electricity running through it;
- On the origin of the “What If” device in comics;
- Adrian Tomine profiled in the Irish Times;
- Ninja friend Amy Stuart gets Still Mine adapted for TV;
- The wheat is being separated from the chaff, which is to say conservative publishing is headed the self-publishing route (in fine company with Bitcoin mining strategies #233, unedited monthly thriller/romance/action novels, Grampa Louis’s Lifetime of Loverly Limericks, Deep State Dave’s Unmasking of the Illuminati Lizard Warlock NWO Agenda, and Aunt Matilda’s recipes and reflections on the genealogy of a family that has never done a remarkable thing)… Have fun, conservative publishing!;
