It’s going go blizzard here today, so I am trying to speed things up here in order to get my emergency chips and beer for hunkering down. See you on the other side, snow angels. Also: Biden, eh? Who knew old Joe could pull that speech off? When it started, I started a timer to see when he first said “Now, look…” but it turned out to be only halfway through or so. Not bad. And the sentiment is well timed. Here’s hoping more than half the country listens to it.
- Yesterday was the day that comes every 4 to 8 years when my father calls to tell me about a poem he heard and ask why I can’t write something understandable like that (kid was amazingly poised and professional);
- Profiles and coverage galore of the young woman of the hour;
- Links to all the presidential inauguration poems ever performed… all 6;
- Surprising stat: nearly half of Canadian adults struggle with literacy;
- TS Eliot prize shortlist readings go digital;
- Bronwen Wallace Award does away with ageism;
- PKD Award nominees revealed;
- There has been one Didion title or another on Ms. Ninja’s nightstand the entire 10 years we’ve been together;
- Holmes base: Why do we keep coming back to Sherlock?;
- Coates leaves Wakanda forever;
- Dour, hunched demeanor fully explained: on Beckett and Scotland;
- Is Tom Bombadil the Stan Lee cameo of Middle Earth?;
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