Lots of gross news today, including the loss of Beverly Cleary. Maybe just go back to bed and let’s meet here tomorrow.
- RIP: Beverly Cleary, staple of my entrance to reading through The Mouse and the Motorcycle books, dead at 104;
- RIP: Larry McMurtry, author, dead at 84;
- Richard Wright’s “best” book was never published because racism… now it’s coming out;
- Findland digging the tech;
- Dante and Shakespeare go to war (never fight Italians, man);
- A brief history of the ampersand;
- The hearth words and language Heaney grew up with;
- George Martin adds to slate more projects that aren’t books, frothing incel fans around globe grind teeth in unison;
- On spending 25 years trying to write a book;
- I’ve met John Metcalfe and enjoyed his company in person, even though I seldom agree with him in print… That said, you can pretty much just shoot me in the face if I ever do something that Barbara Kay feels needs defending… I’ll obviously be in the wrong… I’d say she sounds like a broken record, but I don’t think records have been invented yet in her timeline;
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