Wednewsday

It’s Ms. Ninja’s birthday today, and in our house that marks not only a chance to celebrate a brilliant writer, mom, and partner, but the day we officially starting drinking a 3pm eggnog with Screech in it. So much giving.

• Mark Truscott wins inaugural Nelson Ball Poetry Prize;
• Allison Flood looks at how the indies thrived and survived 2020;
• Memories of Expos Past, a requiem in photos;
• How many people work in our industries? Some numbers;
• What’s André Alexis been up to?;
• On Eliot and revolutionaries;
• Grove Atlantic works to stave off unions with entry pay increase;
• Once Atwood joined Masterclass, I feel like it was open season… enter Rushie;
• The Master Stephen King ranks adaptations of his work;
• The most borrowed books at the TPL in 2020? Not a lot of Canucks;
• On becoming pen pals with Harper Lee;
• Letters between Simone du Beauvoir and Violette Leduc sell at auction for a pretty penny;
• Diversity within the Latinx poetry community, incl Ninja pal Eduardo Corral;
• NK Jemisin (nailed it!) on quitting “normal” life for writing;
• Moon Unit to publisher memoir;
• Publisher cancels Islamophobe’s book deal, bye byeeee, bigots;