
- Thom King up for Stephen Leacock Medal (book IS hilarious);
- Atlantic Book Award lists are out;
- LA Times Book Award winners;
- FTR, I am totally on board with dissing Dylan as a “literary” genius–he’s a fantastic songwriter though–but these two Dylan biographers flinging feces at one another supersedes any argument of substance, so lets gather round like a bunch of chimps to watch;
- New book for teens about people with disabilities;
- On 50 years of Terry Pratchett;
- I’m a borderline hoarder… A hoarderline, if you will… or I was, until I got help for 49 years of undiagnosed ADHD… Now I find great joy in throwing things out… yes, even books… Not YOUR book, of course;
- Speaking of getting rid of books… I turned 50 on the weekend… Eep;
- In the Instagram age, books CAN be judged by their cover;
- How to think like a copywriter (but why would you want to?);
- On writing in a pandemic year… the latest article wrung from the filthy dishcloth of the last 365;
- I also spent my pandemic year in Fallout 76;
- How does Judy Blume’s era-defining writing hold up today?;
- Snoop’s success and the economics of a pandemic book industry;
- Richard Dawkins retroactively loses humanist award he got in 1996;