Tuesday (hold-your-breath-for-good) newsday

I can’t even.

• Toronto Book Award shortlist includes Desmond Cole (and here’s additional coverage from The Star, just because I find that sort of delicious);
• Canadian kids book award goes to picture book Bird Song;
• Making way for Black book designers;
• PSA: there’s a new George Saunders story in the NYer;
• Black-owned bookshops call for more diversity in UK publishing;
• RIP: Fred Klein, of Bantam Books, dead at 97;
• Nikki Giovanni interviewed;
• Canned literature for… the can;
• World Fantasy Award winners;
• Now it’s the truth on the radio that causes mass panic , not stories;
• Whaaaaat? Toni Morrison’s book collection is for sale;
• Do you hate Instagram poets? Apparently, this one isn’t as bad? I’m actually linking to it without reading because I have enough stress today;
• The science behind why we get hooked on books like Game of Thrones;