What are your plans for the weekend, besides chemically suppressing an endless existential scream of panic and bewilderment? I will clean my office and go on some good hikes during the remaining decent weather to distract myself from the impending doom of humanity. Baudrillard would be proud.
- Canada’s reduced role at Frankfurt involves 11 authors/illustrators;
- Can you imagine having been the editor for RBG? It would be like being a personal butcher for a lion or like the vocal coach for Adele… My editorial comments would look like this: “Well, I don’t know about this construction but I assume you’re right, Ms. Justice-Ginsberg-Ma’am-Your Honour, begging your pardon”;
- Omg omg omg: Claudia Rankine on Lizzo? My worlds are colliding!;
- Woodward’s Rage bumps sales by 600,000+ during first week;
- Dublin ILF program comes to life;
- Hercule Poirot at 100;
- Library traffic down 80% last year;
- Natalie Portman’s updated fables for kids;
- $72 bucks a night to play F. Scott and Zelda… Vat of booze not included;
- Booksellers in New England announce diversity initiative;
- This fucking job kills me every time it comes up;
- Noted bigot JK Rowling helps screw up chance for gender change in Britain;
- CBC nonfiction prize shortlist;
- $13.5 million in artist relief handed out;
- Lana Del Rey (a name that sounds like a car from the 1950s) gets her poetry reviewed by poets… It’s sad for me that poetry is a vanity project for so many celebrities… At least Ethan Hawke had to do the work to write a novel… Failed song lyrics and random, pencil-doodled pseudo-profundities written by Instagram model make me whither inside… I didn’t even like Eddie Vedder’s poems, and I’m predisposed to Eddie Vedder… But I digress;
- Louise Penney interviewed at CBC;
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