Welcome to the first of three or four weeks you’ll get with your kids in school before all Hell breaks loose and the numbers of infected rise like a zombie film with a really low FX budget. Wait, is this the zombie apocalypse? It’s just tired teenagers and whining middle schoolers. And none of them want brains. Not even their own. Huh.

- Publishing needs to make more room for disabled authors;
- Women’s Prize is 25…. and here’s why we still need it;
- Local hero and nice guy Dennis Lee opens up about singing, etc;
- This article encourages us to stop stacking books on our floor, despite the fact that we long ago ran out of shelf space…. what now, hotshot?;
- Today in StabYourEyesOut: 21-year-old author gets 7-figure deal for 2 novels;
- Dublin Lit Fest completely changed/not changed at all;
- Ride the Indie Publisher Rollercoaster! Thrills! Chills! Spills! … Mostly spills;
- The healing power of reading;
- In praise of the long, slow novel;
- What is the difference between a myth, a legend, and a fairy tale? Easy: the first is the rumour that went around on that Monday in Grade 11 that you had to have your stomach pumped on Saturday night after calling your girlfriend’s dad a pedophile as he tried to pick you up out of pile of cow manure at that field party, the second is the series of events that culminated in what you did to end up in the shit at that field party, and the third is that you never suffered any social repercussions from the fallout of that field party;
- Old dead authors helping one another out;