We are having the yard redone outside my window right now, so I am going to make this quick and then flee from this room with hands over ears. I swear to god the whine of a chop saw (or at least one you yourself are not operating) has the potential to completely overhaul the torture industry.
- QWF Award finalists includes Kaie Kellough and ‘Ninja pal Sean Michaels;
- Hope for the future: are you lit-adjacent and an aspiring writer? There’s hope! Copy-writer’s debut book goes for $2m at Frankfurt;
- Update: Frankfurt in fact topped 200,000 “attendees”;
- Irish wife and husband up for same award;
- Will this hostel in Joyce’s old house have glass tables? Asking for a friend;
- What book ending disappointed you most? (I remember IT being like that back when I was a teen… like he reached page 800 and said, O shit, I gotta wrap this up);
- Yes, there’s a Jimmy Patterson book imprint;
- Shortlist for Vine Jewish lit award includes Bezmozgis;
- Marlon James on Neil Gaiman… now there’s some good shipping;
- SE Hinton throws graphic novels some shade (yet seems to have been fine with a movie adaptation);
- Maus (et al) artist Art Spiegelman on art and politics;
- Straczynski takes on Harlan Ellison literary estate;
- Sylvia Plath: nature writer?;
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