Well, it’s officially Year Two of the pandemic, and while we’re using less end-of-the-world imagery, it’s still kind of sucky out there, so take solace in the fact that you are accumulating a tiny fraction of the stories and cred your WWI and WWII / depression / Spanish flu / nuclear war fearing grandparents built up in their lifetime, so you may one day toothlessly afflict these upon your descendants as you fail to notice their eyerolling through your milky cataracts.
- Poetry in Voice, my fav time of year, comes round again… Go KIDS!;
- New “shop local” button to connect internet people to Canaidan bookstores;
- Quel surprise: University presses overwhelmingly white;
- Ralph Fiennes to direct and star in adaptation of Eliot’s Four Quartets;
- Updike knew how to swing an axe;
- What are your favourite literary review burns?;
- Judges announced for the NBAs in the States;
- Bunch of famous authors, including Peggy, to co-pen pandemic novel;
- Plenty of books ABOUT the pandemic, but which ones predicted it?;
- But will people want to read these books in the future?;
- Lucille Clifton doc looks good;
- On Berryman, Dream Songs, and race;
- I likes a Beowulf reissue, but I likes the idea that PBS knows how to use “stan” in a headline even better;
- Nom nom, mofos — it’s the Vagina Dentata award;
- As I’ve said for a while, it’s when the robots come for the artists that we have to really start worrying;
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