- How did Canuck booksellers mark Indie Day in a pandemic?;
- Some 2020 numbers from the UK Publisher’s Association;
- Franzen’s promo copy is a bit much;
- The Walrus looks at what we lose when big publishers merge;
- Imagine making enough off your first book that you can quit everything and just write… How does that make you feel? Angry?;
- When the NYer rejected Nabokov’s Superman sex poem;
- Norton fully cancels publication of Roth biographer’s books;
- More people are jumping on the I Hate Mike Pence Express;
- And before you start whining, or even thinking, about so-called “cancel culture”, give a listen as Levar Burton gracefully counters the idea that it even exists right to Meghan McCain’s face;
- Kay Ryan profiled as an “outsider” at LitHub;
- Let’s check in on the state of disability diversity in kids lit;
- Journalist quits after trash paper NY Post orders her write false story about Kamala Harris;
- Jhumpa Lahiri on the act of self-translation;
- NYT is retiring the term “op-ed“;
- When an article headline suggests we’re about to get book recs from Werner Herzog, my instinct is to peek at the list through the lattice of my fingers as I use my hands to shield my eyes;
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