- Canadian writers are broke: is policy to blame?;
- You there: pipe down… Kazuo is speaking;
- Wee Peggy interview in the NYer to accompany her story there;
- A writer’s guide to stopping procrastination… For me, a certain amount of procrastination is integral to the process… like a racing car burning out its tires before the green light;
- You can’t scam blood from a stone: weirdo literary scammers;
- Joy Harjo, interviewed;
- Shelter in place: the first wave of pandemic novels is about to arrive;
- 2021 Shortlists for European Union Prize;
- On Bezos and how he manipulates his workforce through language (not actually the point of the article, but it’s a subtext for me);
- Having a hard time putting headphones on to passively listen?;
- George RR Martin has it tough;
- Locus’s fairly comprehensive list of everything that’s up in Spec;
- Cooking up some Dick: on replicating the chowders of Mellville’s masterpiece;
- Kilts shall flare, bosoms shall heave: a new Outlander is coming;
- On how Lord Byron helped create modern Greece;
- America in nadir: Ted Cruz is fund-raising through book burning;
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