Well, my fellow Canadians, I hope you were able to connect with family and friends this weekend past, and that you gave thanks to whomever you are inclined to thank. I also hope that you spent some time discussing or thinking about what this holiday represents for Indigenous People here especially in a time when politicians use the term Reconciliation as a way to garner votes and praise, but don’t follow through on it. Americans, well, jebus… I don’t even know what to say to you, with your Columbus Day. When I lived in NYC for a good few years, I told friends I found it sort of like their descendants 500 years from now celebrating Hitler Day. This was not what anyone wanted to hear. But I stand by it.
- Could the competence of libraries during all this lead to their downfall?;
- How to break a reading slump;
- On surviving the Nobel Prize;
- How the Queer community sees the open letter in support of Trans folk;
- I have been made sick by poems, but haven’t encountered a viral one;
- The trailer for the adaptation of Pratchett’s Discworld books is not being well-received;
- Ninja pal and former contributor Sheila Heti on Virginia Woolf on books;
- On getting books into the hands of prisoners;
- There’s a book club neatly tailored to your niche interests;
- I basically will link to anything with Dionne Brand’s name in it;
- Do teen poets show the future of poetry?;
- Can Frankfurt live up to itself as digital only?;
- Lithub reminds us, via Dirty Dancing, how to handle Ayn Rand pushers;
- First place I go at every party: your bookshelves (tells me if I want to stay);
- Slaughterhouse Five, the graphic novel;
- Dylan Farrow has a YA fantasy novel coming this year;
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