Well, it’s Friday. Not that that means much anymore. How are those walls holding up? Paint still on them? New millimeter of wall paper peeling? Anything happening outside the window in the alley? Didn’t think so.
- Book sales still surging;
- How do you write an isolation thriller with cellphones? Pre-order Ms. Ninja’s book to find out;
- Amanda Gorman is having her deserved day, quit your bellyaching, envious poets, and cheer on a remarkable young woman:
- Amanda Gorman inspires change;
- Amanda Gorman to publish three books;
- Amanda Gorman sees all three shoot to the top of the bestseller lists before they’re even published;
- Amanda Gorman lands modelling contract (Rupi marked the death of the ugly poet… the last of the artistic professions to succumb to the beauty police);
- Amanda Gorman’s painted likeness acquired by Harvard;
- [Insert your name here] just got a $500 advance on 10 years of work;
- Amanda Gorman will read poem at … The Superbowl;
- Oh riiiiight… Mulder became a novelist after giving up compulsive wanking;
- Gwendolyn Christie will play Lucifer in Sandman…. oooooh;
- Gatsby in the afterlife of copyright;
- On discovering they make young reader editions of famous books;
- A-hole academic publishers price gouging on ebooks during Covid;
- …But amid, and despite, it all, progress marches forward, one heavily-laden step at a time: anthology of black authors to be given free to every primary school in the UK;
- Editorial change at the LRB;
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