It’s Friday and we’re all getting ready to hunker down this weekend and survive the plagues, pestilence, slack-jawed riots, and roving gangs of psychotic 80s-punk themed cannibals driving souped-up muscle cars with corrugated metal welded to them for armour. Oh, wait, sorry…. just checked the calendar. That’s NEXT weekend. Enjoy!
- Jesse Wente on reframing Indigenous stories with joy;
- 2020 was US’s best print year in last 10…;
- …And indies across the globe seemed to be a large part of this;
- Simon & Schuster cancels Republican riot-inciter Hawley’s book and he’s screaming as though it’s everyone’s right to be published by S&S… Privilege illustrated (also, has there ever been a person who looked more like their name was “Josh” than this douchebag?);
- BOTD: Nora Zeale Hurston… spend some time with her work today;
- Philly Poet Laureate launches phoneline for “healing” poetry;
- A brief history of reading;
- Hey, the ReLit awards are back… And while everyone is glad for an extra recognition machine, no one is asking if anything has changed… Is it still just a jury of one? Is there any transparency whatsoever on who chooses what books get considered? etc. Same questions as before;
- Richard Ford muses on how American got to this point;
- CrimeReads looks at the many, sometimes sinister, retellings of Jane Eyre;
- And something nice to end on: a look back at The Wind in the Willows;
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