Wednewsday

Half full or half empty, your week is counting down.

• Book Awards news is finally exciting again:
  • Wide-ranging Booker shortlist highlights diversity, indies, and debuts;
  • TD Children’s lit award shortlists;
  • Toronto Book Award finalists are also quite exciting;
  • Looks like the ABAs also pointed toward diversity;
• Historian discovers roots of White supremacy: textbooks (side note: “Accidentally”);
• US Literary Arts Emergency fund recipients announced;
• A whodunit mystery movie set in the French book industry? Yespls;
• Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret is 50. FIFTY;
• FOLD kids online!;
• Rupi Kaur to release new book of doodles accompanied by things that look like poems;
• When I was a kid, I loved book stickers… But they were the ones you stuck in the front cover to say “This Book Belongs to _______”… or if you were fancy, “From the Library of _________”… Apparently there are more options now… what a time to be alive;
• Touch-free library self-checkout;
• Debut fantasy novel gets 7 figures for book and movie;
• You may be surprised to learn Philip Larkin was a bit of a mama’s boy;
• Things I’ve Discovered Since Restarting Bookninja: Dave Eggers is still a thing (I was one of the first to ever review his Heartbreaking Work book, back in 2000 in the Globe);
• Bolton’s book inspires DOJ subpoenas… America is so gross right now;