Who even knows what this next week has in store. So kit out your apocalypse gear and buckle up, because we’re going for a drive.

- Do you miss browsing the library outside of the search bar? Time to go VR;
- The nerds at Polygon offer a list of what they think were the best SciFi books of 2020;
- TeenVogue is doing the heavy lifting in the magazine world these days;
- Your reading slump explained in terms of your skull slurry;
- Is comedy crucial for crime writing?;
- Well, no surprise there: Obama’s book was 2020’s best seller;
- Imagine if this worked for poetry – Lil Nas X tweets to fans to buy his book and they do;
- Also unsurprising: Emily D was a little pent up;
- Data from France shows how people engage with books during Covid;
- Drs prescribing writing for therapeutic reasons? I need therapeutic help AFTER I’ve been writing;
- Fanfiction is big enough to crash the internet;
- Is the next book cover trend rainbow?;
- Is Ireland headed down the dark, tired road to banning To Kill a Mockingbird?;
- Dateline: name change… AAR becomes AALA;
- The rise of the apocalyptic novel;
- Dahl’s family has said “sorry” for his awfulness… does that matter?;