- Physical book fairs will never be replaced, says book fair CEO in what will come to be known as the year immediately before book fairs were replaced;
- BookScan suggests growth in 3rd quarter;
- Climate fiction: it’s not just about the potential futures we’ve destroyed anymore, it’s about now;
- Who will win the Dublin? I’m calling Esi Edugyan;
- Sturgeon Award for short SFF handed out;
- Leacock Medal for humour gets new sponsor;
- Powerful man faces consequence because of history of sexual assault…? What a time to be alive;
- Can one book entirely change a country’s image? Japan suggests, yes;
- imagine leafing through Arthur Miller’s personal library;
- Library nerds! Hearken unto BookRiot;
- Thomas aside, what exactly constitutes a “Welsh spa“, anyway? Like, you rub yourself down with rocks and moss and dry off with a whole sheep and roll in the heath?;
- Where to start with bell hooks;
- Is there a new Chuck Tingle on the block? Penetrated by the President’s Twitter Feed seems to point to “yes”;
- Did you know that Lou Diamond Phillips wrote a SciFi novel?; Yr welk;
- Being a forgotten Brontë would be like being a lesser Baldwin, I guess;
- Lennie Goodings on Virago Press in a rare free Globe article;
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