The world remains a cesspool. Other than that, here are some stories.

- More coverage and remembrance of Richard;
- Today in Powerful Men Face Consequences for Bad Behaviour: Hay Festival boss suspended for bullying;
- Poet and bookseller Alice Burdick elected to her town council;
- Rarified types (academics, poets, etc) need to stop fearing book marketing;
- Some rights news;
- “Can a Black novelist write autofiction?” No, really, that’s the headline;
- Percy Jackson author feels the need to protect fans… and yet we still have the movies;
- RIP: Diane Di Prima, poet, dead at 86;
- Carnegie Medal longlists announced;
- The Strand calls for help, gets flooded with online orders;
- CBC’s Writers and Company is 30 years old… doesn’t look a day over 132;
- Don DeLillo profiled in Irish Times;
- I thought baking-based horror was just what we called my cakes?;
- The Case of the Missing Agatha;
- SNL takes swipe and Rowling during Adele/McKinnon sketch;
- Throwback: Alice Munro on censorship;