It’s a very nostalgic Monday, with several articles taking over-the-shoulder looks at things. Which, I suppose is good, since we’re in total lockdown here with the more-contagious UK strain of Covid running through our population like R Kelly through a junior high. I mean, I myself am not that affected: I was already a shut-in who lived most of his life online, but I feel for everyone around me. So, look at some different news about books and things.
- Valentine’s Day dregs from CBC;
- Lessons from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life in lockdown (lockbrown?);
- RIP: Rachna Gilmore, children’s author, dead at 68;
- The bookstore owner behind National Black Literacy Day;
- On science fiction since 1970 (it’s criminal to me that Nalo Hopkinson isn’t mentioned in the Afrofuturism section);
- RIP: James Gunn, sci-fi author, dead at 97;
- On how a good teacher with an eye for good books can change everything;
- Nostalgia for when Bruce Willis had enough hair to be a romantic lead;
- DK’s pandemic pivot;
- On poetry’s pandemic-busting power;
- How libraries offered a haven for nerds and queers, and queer nerds;
- Elizabeth Warren to publish children’s book;
- Looking back on Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique;
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