
- CBC highlights fiction titles coming this Spring, starring Richardson, Robinson, Barwin, King, and many more of our ‘Ninja favs;
- Levar Burton named inaugural PEN Literary Champion;
- A new guide to the Black comic book community;
- Did you know it’s World Read Aloud Day? (For Scholastic, that must be reading aloud the instructions on the plastic toys and tv tie in crap kids order through their catalog);
- On the joys the Space Opera — specifically, The Expanse;
- Memoirs are like Monopoly: they break families… even Mariah’s;
- Anti-gun moms launch bookclub;
- Dublin Prize (formerly IMPAC?) looooong list announced (good Canuck representation with Shraya, Crummey, Williams, St. John Mandel);
- We’re getting a Hitchens biography, despite the family’s displeasure;
- Posterboy for toxic masculinity and general blight on humanity Jordan Peterson cancels further interviews in a snit — you know, sometimes when every one seems to be out to get you, the problem is just… you;
- On school librarians pulling their virtual learning weight;
- I’ve always promised myself that if I somehow become rich, I won’t be frivolous, but –-droooool— A complete 1st ed set of Bond novels?;
- Is your teen writing erotic fan fiction? So what?;