You made it again. You slogged through the flaming bag of shit that is reality for another week and now you get two days to forget the the bag, the shit, and the fire by meditating on what’s important in existence, creating new art and new thought, testing the limits of your physical endurance for something other than sitting in a chair, or simply self-medicating into a state of witless catatonia. No judgement, folks. Your call. Go nuts.

- How Covid created an avalanche of books for Sept;
- Liberation Library focusing on prison abolition;
- The NBCC is basically a cauldron of poisoned lava;
- Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day with these virtual events, or, you know, buy something;
- Stop ruining your books by taking them off the shelves;
- RIP: Eugene McCabe, playwright, dead at 90;
- America is a fucking shitshow: storm over library supporting BLM leads to more hate;
- El Wattpado con PRH;
- Margaret Atwood writes about her late partner Graeme Gibson;
- Awards season is in full swing:
- Journey Prize shortlist is up, includes Ninja pal Lisa Foad;
- Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld wins International Booker;
- Finalists for National Business Book awards;
- Don’t piss off a librarian, Boris Johnson, you twit;
- Time to face the music on your overdue library books;
- Lithub gives us a heads-up: the Ursula LeGuin doc is streaming free;
- Ever been gifted a book that you hate?;