- Costa Book Awards include Susanna Clarke’s first in 16 years;
- 9 Canadian kids help illustrate book for noted bigot;
- Chicago students get free access to Obama book;
- How to deal with writer’s block even during times of stress — wait, there’s a way to deal with writer’s block that doesn’t involve self-loathing and despair? huh;
- Bernadine Evaristo on becoming everyone’s 2020 lockdown read;
- Ballie Gifford nonfiction prize awarded;
- Audible changes returns policy after outcry;
- Japan’s most infamous novelist?;
- Lockdown Redux is a great time for you to buff up those reading habits;
- AI to help you write like stodgy old white folk (ED, excepted — also, it is my experience that most people do not, in fact, need help with this);
- Obama memoir sells 1.7 MILLION copies in first week;
- Dalkey Archive acquired;
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