- Canisia Lubrin is nominated for the Griffin Prize!;
- Scammers will take anything, including literary prize money;
- 33 writers make CBC story prize longlist… I don’t recognize any of these names… and that’s a good thing;
- Whiting Awards handed out;
- Hugo Finalists announced;
- New Richard Wright book found and profited from… whew;
- British Royal Mail has some new classic sci-fi stamps;
- Librarians are natural-born detectives;
- I sort of love it every year when cowboy poetry reenters the awareness of people who have an awareness of poetry;
- Ishiguro is saying something, everyone shut up and let’s listen;
- Looks like Gawker is returning, under the Bustle umbrella;
- Writers dish on which books made them into writers (for me it was mostly EB White and Tolkien — no, wait, those made me into a nerd… the writing was….hm);
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