Well, it’s the end of an era. My 40s. As of tomorrow, I expect I will crumble to dust and blow away on the gentle breeze of time. See you back in the energy pool from which all matter springs, my fellow sentient beings. Of course, for the rest of you, it’s just Friday. Enjoy.

- New memoir award in name of Amy MacRae;
- WattPad signs deal with NetFlix;
- Another article on the Griffin list, featuring Canisia Lubrin;
- Dalkey shortlist revealed;
- S&S says no to distributing book by police offer who murdered Breonna Taylor;
- Doubleday doubles down on the cha-s and -chings of self-help;
- London settles on digital book fair once again;
- Is autofiction cheating?;
- How the internet is reviving the decaying corpse of poetry;
- Celebrating indie books;
- Speaking of WattPad, Amazon is trying to take them on;
- How anti-Semite Baudelaire influenced Jewish writers;
- For those of you who have decided to watch the George RR Martin pot boil;
- Are one-on-one communications still actually one-on-one?;