Hello, sweet freedom. Bask, frolic, prance, strut, or curl up into a ball and finally fire up the woodstove because you’ve resisted the end of summer long enough and it’s time to be warm again regardless of whether it feels like surrendering to hostile forces. It’s all up to you.
- Let’s kick things off right: the 50 most erotic books you’ll ever read;
- How the Booker was judged during a global pandemic;
- Rare books stolen from London in 2017 found under floor in Romania;
- I imagine this is big news in the publishing industry: Sargent leaving Macmillan over “direction” differences, which is usually code for “some shit went down”;
- Roxane Gay on Audre Lorde? Yes, please;
- Ninja pal and neighbour Sharon Bala up for Newfoundland Book Award;
- NBA longlist for Poetry released… go Eduardo Corral!;
- Adaptation news: Murder on the Orient Express spikes Christie sales;
- Things I thought didn’t need to be said: Librarians are not your daycare;
- Fact: You can’t call a place “The Paris of the Prairies” if it doesn’t have a bookstore;
- Longlist for CBC Nonfiction Prize includes a few familiar faces;
- RIP: Patrick Turner, co-owner of lit news vital organ Publisher’s Weekly, dead of cancer at 71;
- If you can’t get into Moby Dick, there’s always Jaws;
- RIP: Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump, dead at 77;
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