It’s International Women’s Month/Day time and you’ll note the news cycle starting to reflect this. It always seems odd to me that we pigeon-hole appreciation of things like Black history or the rights and humanity of women to months, much less single days. But it’s always a good reminder to those of us in positions of ultimate privilege what others go through around us all the time. This year, I just want to reaffirm for my trans-women friends that I consider you part of this ongoing history and its struggles as well. Fight the good fight, all my female-identifying droogs.
- Eden Robinson’s new Trickster book completest the tale of Jared… She got royally screwed on the television adaptation, so I encourage everyone to go out and buy this new one as a way of sending her a message of thanks and hope;
- Guardian looks at the women history forgot;
- The definitive assessment of the Seuss “scandal” comes from Levar Burton, as it should;
- How bookstores in Quebec (the province with what’;s likely the dumbest pandemic response) reinvented themselves during Covid;
- Steven Beattie examines what makes a cover good;
- We’re not even trying to hide it anymore: on using your books as decorations;
- I never got the appeal of Archie comics… It was literally a last choice impulse item at the cash… begged off my parents simply to get something for having suffered through grocery shopping, and barely read after… But some (read: a lot of) people seem to like them;
- Hemingway and Castro, bffs;
- Joy Harjo is amazing;
- Imagine your new book coming out with 26 pages stuck together;
- These guys list book series they’d like to see adapted for television… Any additions?;
- Just in time for Women’s Day, Frank Thorne, the guy who popularized the chainmail bikini (via one of the primary vehicles of my sexual awakening: Red Sonja), has died at 90;
- What’s your pandemic comfort reading?;
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