Wow, here we are again, marking the inexorable march of time by when we can do something for ourselves instead of merely surviving. What a life we’ve created for ourselves. Enjoy!
- Octavia Butler is finally on the NYT bestseller list (twitter thread);
- This joyous nugget above is partly because the kind of people who are turning to reading during all this are mostly the sort who want to actually learn something;
- 60 Canadian novels for this fall;
- 3 Day Novel Contest is back and giving me anxiety;
- Delightful young Dutch Booker winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, who looks like every person I ever dated or hung out with in 90s, interviewed;
- Vivek Shraya on how to write or not write during the pandemic;
- Don’t worry, even Tolstoy had writers’ block;
- Need a writing prompt? How about real locations that are stranger than fiction?;
- Ever wanted to roam around Ursula LeGuin’s house?;
- The Irish Times is ready to call it: The Queer novel of the year;
- It doesn’t make me feel better, per se, but little guys should take solace in the fact that the big guys are suffering too;
- Lesbian necromancers in space? I would have bought a book with any ONE of these words in the description;
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