Well, I took the holidays off Bookninja to start my own online poetry school. I am realizing now that I probably should have either begun this sooner or set the start date later, but thankfully, things are coming together for the first course start date, a week from today. Check it out, if you like. Otherwise, I’m getting back to the news. I probably missed a bunch while Giftmas raged, so if there’s a story you think I should highlight, please hit that Tips link in the upper right corner. I’ll try to start the year with some happier news, then I’ll let it descend into the pit of despair that is reality in as gradual a fashion as I can manage;
- 20 New Year’s poems to start with hope… Stuart Ross sends out a new poem every Jan 1… You should get on that list if you can… I’ve been collecting them for 20 years or so, and they’re lovely to wake up hung over to… Waiting for the book, Stu;
- On the joyful books of PG Wodehouse;
- A gallery of ingenious bookshelves;
- Alanis Obomsawin on the power of storytelling;
- NetGalley boarded by pirates;
- A year of chaos and scandal in the deeply white world of French publishing… is a reckoning at hand?;
- RIP: Barry Lopez, environmentalist and writer, dead at 75;
- How goes the diversity battle in the book biz?;
- A book club for procrastinators, but you know, you have to read the article first to get around to learning about the club and maybe changing your life for the better, but man is this chair so comfortable and perhaps you need a new coffee;
- Italy makes a great Why I Read campaign we should have here;
- George Saunders interview;
- Interesting interview with feminist publishing pro Lennie Goodings;
- The Shakespeare riots of 1849;
- You put Octavia Butler’s name in a headline and basically I’ll link to it… even a listicle of 7 surprising things about;
- Is it time to revisit Colson Whitehead’s zombie novel? Given… you know;
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