Half full or half empty, your week is counting down.
- Book Awards news is finally exciting again:
- 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;
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