Lots to cross your fingers for this week… Prizes, new book receptions, good weather, recovery plans, the Christian Right witnessing (see what I did there?) God smite their chosen anti-Christ.
- Merriam-Websters reports that searches for “schadenfreude” have gone up 30,500%;
- New conspiracy theories abound (I admit, when the news broke on the weekend, my first thought was: he’s just trying to subvert the process, I want to see the lab report)… The Economist gives us a nutbar glossary to help;
- New recording of Wallace Stevens to wash out your ears;
- Spunky wee NYC bookstore;
- Wild weird bookstore in China;
- Transparent ebooks are coming;
- On the challenges of being Black in Canadian children’s publishing;
- Comics that dismantle the myth of the White Cowboy;
- Author wants own picture book pulled because of offensive illustration;
- Is Canada Border Services about to destroy a shipment of Indigenous language books Indigenous kids?;
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