Giller Prize news and other things that aren’t that. Just imagine late January when we don’t have to talk about Trump or literary awards anymore…
- It couldn’t have happened to a nicer person: Souvankham Thammavongsa wins the Giller Prize and 100,000 smackerinos;
- Why does funny get short-shrift in literature?;
- On starting her city’s first and only Black-owned bookstore;
- How will America’s reading habits change post-Trump?;
- Words of the Year should start appearing on dictionary pages soon… first up is Collins with “lockdown”… seems apt;
- Also coming on strong: bookish gift lists;
- PRH creates new US Spanish language division;
- On making SciFi a little more… wait for it… universal;
- New film on bookmaking in a digital age;
- Did you know the SFF world has grants for “working class/poor” writers?;
- On our appetite for cannibals;
- Mary Wollstonecraft finally gets statue;
- An auction to win personalized postcards from authors? I’m just happy if someone buys a book (WordFest is doing this too, but giving away notes for free to lucky winners);
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