Contractors showed up next door to do roofing at 630am. In Jesusland right wingers are twisting themselves into knots to excuse a purported billionaire paying no taxes while they excuse their own racism by saying illegal immigrants pay no taxes. I got into an altercation with a maskhole at the grocery store yesterday and though I landed a sick burn, I’m feeling guilty for losing my cool. My children continue to run amok destroying any semblance of calm in my life. Goldenrod is making my sinuses into a fatberg in a 19th Century sewer system and people are looking at me askance because they all assume my name is Typhoid Jonny. I am cranky. Here’s your damn news.
- The right reaction: Hillary Mantel is disappointed to not be on the Booker list, but feels freed by the situation;
- France locked in civil war over poet corpses and I am here for it;
- Atwood’s Handmaid one of decade’s most banned books… Good for her… I wish someone would ban one of mine;
- Years ago, a pizza delivery guy showed up at our door and when I answered, he looked at me, paused, and said, “Do you know the writer George Saunders?” Surprised, I said, “Of course.” “Are you him?” he asked. Why can’t I ever get the hot guys? But I digress: Is Chris Hemsworth simply too hot to play a George Saunders character? (A: yes);
- What’s it like to be in a post-covid library?;
- Huh… NPR is making a play for a popular reader with a romance column;
- Cars and Trucks and Things that Og: Are busy illustrations in kids books making people dumber?;
- Creative Writing courses winning during Covid, which means, my experience tells me, writing itself is losing;
- Why is Agatha Christie still popular? She adapts;
- IFOTIFA (or whatever) has a great lineup of of 99% non-poets;
- This was my thought on Magic cards from about 1990, but if you go to search your old bedroom at your parents house, you’ll find they’ve thrown out or given away most of your good shit, like old Beatrix Potter or Alice in Wonderland books that could be worth thousands;
- For me, the #revealyourshelf campaign would just reveal all the stuff I can’t find a place for anywhere else so it rests up against a bunch of book spines in the dining room;
- Did you know about the Coles Book Arcade in Melbourne?;
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