Why does this week feel like it’s a year? Let’s try to focus on fun things. It is, after all, one of the several days a year we gleefully stereotype an entire people (in this case, a pack of drunken, violent, emotional Irish), so let’s lean into it. Toppa the marnin to yeh, eejit. Some fun youtubz below.
- At least get your Irish terminology down, if you’re gonna go kissing strangers and drinking food dye;
- Poet Jordan Scott pens kids book that normalizes stuttering;
- Lambda finalists includes Canadians Billy Rae Belcourt, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Vivek Shraya, and etc., as well as Ninja pal Eduardo Corral;
- Books for young activists;
- Dennis the Menace turns 70, retains youthful appearance and assholery;
- Lolita as a fashion-driver isn’t fun, but it is interesting and upsetting, like St Pat’s;
- Are you so hard up for motivation to read you’re willing to try anything?;
- Git em while theys yung: politicians and children’s books;
- Every now and then some heartwarming tale about library thieves turns up;
- Next Oprah book club pick is putting members to the test: all four Marilyn Robinson Gilead novels;
- Stephen King’s early novels are getting a makeover and rerelease from Hodder;
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