
- Scumbags Zoombomb Giller reading with Canlit’s nicest person;
- How Amazon profits from book piracy (pitchforks and torches, people);
- On New Year’s resolutions and the creative mind;
- Ever wonder how SciFi authors make up their crazy-assed shit and then build worlds around it that fit?;
- Never fuck up nerd stuff around a nerd – you will never hear the end of it;
- Industry stocks are down;
- Navel-gazer Knausgaard gazes into what writers and editors do;
- Expand on that BLM momentum from 2020 and buy some books from this list of 44 Women of Colour;
- Why Marian Engel’s The Bear will still maul your mind (audio);
- One of the oldest and most in-depth book sites on the net is The Complete Review, home of the Literary Saloon blog… Here’s a round-up of their 2020 posts, if you like meatier books coverage than provided here… Foreign lit and translation is a specialty there… I encourage you to go expand your brain;
- The story of young Malcolm X;
- What’s selling well in China?;
- RIP: Eric Jerome Dickey, bestselling author, dead at 59;
- Gatsby prequel releases to mixed reviews;
- Are you a PS4 owner who longed for the days of Neuromancer, but ended up feeling ripped off when Cyberpunk 2077 didn’t run well on your machine? Here’s a list of palette cleanser books (full disclosure, I quite like the game on PC);