So I spent all last week with heartburn that seemed to be a bit better on the weekend but has come roaring back today. I think it means I’m allergic to weekdays. Enjoy.
- Waterstones is starting job cuts (code name “redundancies”);
- Meanwhile, an Indigo store in Mississauga votes to unionize;
- On the Octavian or Butlerian Renaissance;
- 40 celebrities you might not know write “fiction books” (or, as we say in our indecipherable-to-the-average-magazine-reader-technical-jargon: fiction);
- On implicit bias;
- Simon Armitage looks back on when poetry was fun;
- Anishinaabe author reclaims storytelling in new book;
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko was a huge influence on my early career, mostly in that he lead me to the poets who came before him like Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, etc. …. The FBI’s dossier on him was pretty thick;
- Why do YA books all look like this now?;
- What’s the future of typography?;
- RIP: Terry Goodkind, fantasy author, dead at 72;
- On how libraries are turning the page during the pandemic;
- Inside the writer/translator divide;
- Why aren’t there more books about asexuals?;
- Is the future of book festivals “drive-in”?;
- Steven Heighton continuing his tradition of being a smart guy, in the Star;
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