Well, you could see it coming, especially with the rest of Canada on fire, virally-speaking, but our wall of good policy and public engagement with the process around keeping Covid transmission low is starting to crack. That said, the province has pulled itself from the much lauded “Atlantic Bubble” (along with PEI, Nova Scotia must feel terrible right now), and we are thankfully going back into stricter measures around rotational workers, etc. (I’d say Alberta was feeling bad, but I would imagine I’d have to stretch for that). That said, it means I have two teens home from school today with sniffles (Covid test came back negative) who are ARGUING TO GO. What a topsy-turvy time to be alive.
- Books of the Year, NYT edition;
- BotY, BBC edition;
- BotY for Canadian young people, Q&Q edition;
- International Publishers Association gets all-female leadership for first time in 125 years;
- Paul Celan at 100;
- Why are authors reluctant to use Trump’s name in print?;
- Harjo gets third term as US Poet Laureate;
- Missing link: were these Darwin books lost or stolen?;
- Speaking of stolen: a German library whodunit;
- Did you read the Redwall books as a kid? I must have, because I have them, but I don’t remember… And here’s a listicle about the 10 best mouse feasts from it, just in time for American Hacksgiving (when everyone gets together to transmit Covid from person to person);
- Rupi Kaur’s favourite poetry books are illuminating and with only the mild surprise of Sharon Olds;
- Warhol foundation handing out cash to arts writers;
- How today’s crime authors are reinvigorating classic noir tropes;
- Alan Rickman’s diaries to be published, presumably gobbled by Slytherins;
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