Well, I feel a cold coming on. Garden variety, non-feverish, non-purple-toed cold. That, or St. John’s is suddenly overrun with goldenrod. Whatever it is, though, basically means I must stay indoors and/or away from others until it’s gone because that’s the responsible thing to do, even with a mask, and even in a province that has weathered this crisis better than most places in the world (we only have one known active case, and it’s travel-related, not community spread.) Besides, I can only imagine the shady side-eye I’d get from my NL peers if I were out sniffing and coughing in public. I know they’ll do this because I have already done it to others. Big deadline this week too, on the manuscript for my next book, so it’s probably best I just lock myself to this idiot box for a few days. Blerg.
- Books to “restore” faith in humanity? Huh, turns out some had it? Weird;
- Authors helping out inmates;
- Bookstores on the edge;
- RIP: Don Domanski, giant of Canadian poetry and friend of mine, dead at 70… I bizarrely dreamed of him the week before he died but didn’t send a note to say so… Sad… We once spent a week driving around Atlantic Canada… Odd duck, but so smart and enjoyable to be around… Godspeed, fella;
- Romance novelist tackling lack of diverse love stories;
- Arthur C. Clarke winner donates prize money to BLM protestors;
- Hari Kunzru on why cop shows are part of the problem;
- Elgin awards for SFF handed out;
- Colson Whitehead on being worn out by your own writing;
- Dan Brown will do anything to seem interesting if it boosts book sales, including a bunch of random women;
- Posted for reader Bianca, among others: Misty Copeland is Zooming into libraries;
- Author acquitted of child porn charges over passages in literary novel (ffs);
- Thom King’s new novel Indians on Vacation is fucking hilarious… here he is profiled on how it came about;
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