I spent all of yesterday working on a poem a forgot (!) to post until later in the evening. It was worth it though. A tough little humdinger I’d been picking at for years finally came together. Anyway, any news of the day was eclipsed by the death of John le Carré, so I’ll try to catch up now.
- LPG’s indie press campaign launches;
- Canada Reads Prose is coming again, inevitable, like Thanos;
- CIBA blames Amazon for PRH/S&S merger;
- Hey! There might be more than one reason to divest yourself of JK Rowling books;
- Jay-Z is in a publishing empire state of mind;
- A year-end retrospective of the clusterfuck that was 2020 in books;
- Back in 2016, PW did a visual retrospective of ke Carré’s remarkable career;
- And the Guardian covers remembrances of him from friends and colleagues;
- What are you doing this NYE? Listening to a Japanese novelist? Go easy there, rockstar;
- Sunday Times names its young writer of the year;
- ‘Ninja pal Zoe Whittall ruminates on making art in the pandemic;
- CrimeReads looks at the lost art of “the cast of characters” in mystery novels;
- LitHub looks at the glory days of the American trade paperback;
- Was Tattered Cover the right choice for Black Bookstore of the Year?;
- New York Magazine recommends Scrivener to get that novel done… This is what Ms. Ninja uses, and I’m starting to wonder if maybe my two languishing novels in Word need a boost…;
- Cyberpunk: a primer for the uninitiated who haven’t been devouring it since the late 70s;
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