Here you are again. Another meaningless unit of time marked off. The jar of jellybeans is slowly emptying, people. And there’s no refill. Where do you stand in terms of preparedness for the days of the empty jar? Take that into your weekend and try to get something you find meaningful done.
- My favourite of the awards: Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title;
- Shyam Selvadurai on why it took 26 years for Funny Boy to come to screen;
- Won’t somebody think of the supply chain?!?! It’s fine;
- Needed around here: gift ideas for book-loving feminists;
- Catching up on who is winning what Irish awards;
- Minnesota (practically Canada) nurse uses poetry to cope with pandemic;
- More Bookshop.org coverage;
- Obama getting award from PEN;
- Authors still mad at Audible and is anyone really surprised by this?;
- First AugurCon (CanSpecFic) overcomes reality to set up shop;
- Picador wins four-way auction for Jamaica Kincaid book;
- On the “unbearable banality of romance novel décor“;
- Do these animal books represent a literary Noah’s ARC…? (See what I did there?);
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