- Forest of Reading launches virtual fest with winner announcements;
- Peggy dishes on why she thinks the 1990s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale didn’t work;
- EU Prize for Literature winners announced;
- Skylight Books in LA unionizes;
- LitHub looks at a list of book stores that have done the same;
- I have a small cadre of my-life-adjacent people who I could use as models if I ever wanted to write a psycho;
- Mary Beard interviewed in the NYer;
- For those who think poetry does nothing: marriage-breaking;
- This pandemic has hurt and benefited all the wrong people… to wit: dirtbag Andrew Cuomo is set to make $5.1m from his pandemic book;
- Listen to Patricia Lockwood read from her work and talk craft;
- Hey, older, bewildered people like me: DYK bookstagram is a thing?;
- I quit acting in part because Philip Seymour Hoffman had the market on chubby redheads cornered, and now here he is posthumously getting into the book rec biz… jerk;
- Should critics “let their guard down” (ie, be more generous)?
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