- Marvel collaborates with Indigenous artists for Voices series;
- Bad Sex in Fiction award cancelled this year to spare us more 2020;
- Nostalgia for reading destinations of the uninfected past;
- …And don’t get in Nora Roberts’ face if you don’t want your bodice ripped;
- Was Eliot as much of a dick as his first wife? Job to say… (I always used to assume all ye-olde-time privileged literary guys were dicks, but I’ve since learned better… They don’t have be from the past);
- Possibly related: why’s it so difficult to believe women can crack in crisis?;
- Do you like creeping about in dead writers’ houses?;
- Uht oh… Charity trying to buy Tolkien’s house linked to Morgoth somehow;
- First book prize goes to Raven Leilani;
- Gap between academic and trade publishing graduates to “chasm”;
- I love how every time I mention human smegma-smear Jordan Peterson, my comments and emails immediately fill up (like they’re hanging over the keyboard salivating for any negative mention of his name) with indignant fedora-wearing incels just want to be told what to do and think by their conman Daddy (and who call me “sir” with arch disdain), but here’s a decent core argument FOR publishing him: it’s easier to prove him wrong once it’s out there;
- Walrus gets some Canadian writers to pick their favourite books of 2020;
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