Oog. This week is gonna be a doozy. Do buckle up. And keep a hand on your popcorn, Canadians, in case things get choppy.

- Amanda Gorman, 22, will be the inaugural poet for Joe Biden’s presidency;
- Sad: Parentbooks, beloved by autism community, to close after 35 years;
- Indies planning 2021;
- OUP puts full World Classics line on the internet;
- Ursula K Le Guin gets a stamp with her face on it;
- On Beckett and salvation vs. suffering;
- Patricia Highsmith was an anti-Semite who took Jewish lovers;
- Melinda Gates donates her morning coffee money to women’s fiction prize;