Monday Monday

Blerg.

• The school year is back and the following is cancelled: everything… No sports, no theatre, no music, no library…. wait, no library?;
• America’s motto, e plurbis unum, is from a recipe for pesto… that’s actually better than it sounds… have you tasted pesto?;
• What made black and blue pen ink the standard?;
• In 2014, Harper Collins gave Lindsay Lohan $365,000 to write a book… Surprise surprise, it never appeared and now they’re suing her… Your honour, the defence would like to suggest that anyone who gave 2014 Lindsay Lohan any amount for any task that required actual work was implicitly suggesting they were fine with setting said pile of money on fire;
• Unions to the Rescue! Bookstore Edition;
• BBC’s National Short Story prize has a shortlist;
• With hopes for a (deserved) Nobel all but statistically dashed by Alice Munro’s win a few years ago, Margaret Atwood has turned to mopping up the nooks and crannies of the trophy case;
• Page-to-screen adaptations showing at TIFF;
• New York Comic Con going meta;
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has an essay On Grief in the New Yorker;
• Only love can save the study of literature;