Wednewsday

Living on a prayer, people.

• Frankfurt cancels in-person events and goes all digital (and apparently they’re not being greedy douches about pre-paid fees like London was);
• Giller Prize longlist includes a few Ninja favs… friends and former students, hurrah!;
• Dublin Award shortlist also out;
• Same with the American translation awards;
• 16-year-old wins big nature writing award;
• The spring titles delayed til fall have created a printer bottleneck;
• Carolyn Reidy will receive a posthumous lifetime award from NBAs;
• On the heyday of the one-word-poem;
• Kids went back to school here today! Tuck this article away for four weeks from now when they’ll be home again because no one is willing to spend the money on new ventilation systems for indoor spaces!;
• Seems like every writers org out there is a hot friggin mess these days… today it’s the thriller writers who have melted down;
• Michael Cohen’s book is apparently… “readable“;