
- Poet and Ninja pal Carmine Starnino enshrined in the OED (look at that smug look on his face, haters);
- How to start a virtual book recommendation service;
- You think your novel is taking forever? Wole Soyinka is publishing his first novel in 48 years;
- Maybe he was working like this woman who says books get good at draft 27;
- How was the Frankfurt Fair receive internationally?;
- The MS Readathon was a HUGE part of my childhood, and the start of a long career in reading… And it was the one area where I shone brighter than the popular kids, each of whom I now imagine managing a variety of Arby’s locations around the world;
- Eden Robinson still proud of Monkey Beach movie, if not her part in it;
- Marlon James talks Black fiction;
- Lorna Crozier on the power of memoir to help her deal with the loss of beloved partner Patrick Lane;
- Some free bookish art for you to print for your reading nook walls;
- On the power of the Black women’s online book club;
- I’m forever surprised at some peoples’ ability to fetishize the “writing life”… Especially when it comes from actual writers… You’d think if you’d ever actually lived it, you’d know it’s not about nice pens and big windows to write in;
- Bernadine Evaristo curates new Black British writers for HH;
- Prix Goncourt shortlist; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie;
- Gender-swapped fairy tales are a hit;
- Poet of the moment Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut novel is coming;
- This Twitter account featuring passages of men writing women is…. painful… and so terribly good;