- Freedom to Read Award goes to Indigenous author from Winnipeg;
- Unsung Black artists of comic books past;
- Roxane Gay to publishing world: you know what you did;
- Must be hard to be a writer of Christian fiction… I mean, how do you top “The Bible”? Har. That said, it might have just gotten slightly easier for Christian novelists of colour;
- This cottage is worth its weight in pearls, and I hear it’s just east of Eden;
- Of COURSE the French government is in the de Sade business;
- Edge-lord Ryan Gosling has The Giving Tree tattoo… horrifying! What’s next, Ryan? A Love You Forever-themed nipple ring? YOU POUTY, GORGEOUS MONSTER;
- New in SF short collections… Just me, or have SF story collections grown rarer over time?;
- Michael Ignatieff (aka, Canada’s Al Gore — a man too smart to be likeable to regular folk), has joined the Cundill History Prize jury;
- British Fantasy Award winners announced (note: does not include Brexit proponents);
- Bram Stoker Award finalists for Horror;
- Poets pay homage to John Keats on 200 years since his death by examining their favourite poems in his oeuvrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……….snork….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz;
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