The world is on fire and I’m still just mostly just here to poke fun at the CBC. Enjoy your weekend, pals. Next week is gonna be LIT.
- After four days of no books coverage, the CBC breaks out of the gate with the Canada Reads Prose contenders, and that’s now all we’ll hear about for months;
- Amazon hit with price-fixing lawsuit;
- The Guardian rounds up the best recent SFF titles;
- Meanwhile, Crime Reads highlights 9 SFF thriller crossovers;
- Aw, remember John Bolton? ‘member? Aw;
- It’s so nice to see Octavia Butler get her due this last year or so;
- When detective fiction and dementia overlap… What can one tell us about the other?;
- Jeffrey Archer and HC bury old hatchet as he leaves Pan MacMillan;
- PRH sees some promotions;
- Yusef Stevens releasing kids book… no word if main character is a Cat;
- Tin Tin cover art sells for nearly $5m at auction;
- How should you approach things when you’re pretty sure you’ll be banned?;
- A western built around a gang of gender-nonconforming outlaws? GET ON MY NIGHTSTAND, BOOK;
- Bookshelf decor ideas for those who enjoy books as props;
- Ms. Ninja showed me Sea Shanty TikTok the other day and now it’s in the NYer… Coincidence?;
Bookninja 