
- Parent and child team-up on middle-grade book with non-binary hero;
- Canisia Lubrin wrote something, which is reason enough to link;
- …Aaaaand the first of the 2021 physical book fairs goes down;
- In what is surely the best moment of 2021 so far, a major French publisher is begging people to stop sending them their terrible lockdown-written books… I live for this;
- Aw: Viral kid with stutter gets special message from fav author;
- New online platform for book clubs;
- On the freakout over Substack: the new Uber-driver-job-level platform for taking advantage of writers;
- Reading isn’t neutral: racist books make for racist kids;
- Apocalypse writers disappointed with lack of cannibalism;
- Kirkus looks at verse novels for teens;
- Teachers: correcting terrible student writing in red pen since 2000 BC;
- Look inside nutty Joe Pulitzer’s code book;
- On historic Hebrew typefaces;
- Monday fun: Which Winnie-the-Pooh character are you? (Pro tip: if you are immediately anxious you might be Rabbit, you’re probably Rabbit)