Happy Pride to all my most fantastic and cooler-than-me readers.

- 50 years of Pride books;
- Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed bought for screen adaptation;
- See the Bronwen Wallace Emerging Writers Award winners here;
- Behold the glory that is this cast for the Sarah Polley-led adaptation of Miriam Toews’ Women Talking;
- Signs of return to “normal”: PW is accepting print galleys again;
- The Goss: Padma Lakshmi is dating Terrance Hayes… Damn, that is two seriously lucky people;
- Some details on LBF’s digital plan;
- Whew: strike averted at magazine you are 3 months behind on;
- Beattie Beat: our man in publishing Havana dives into the new chasm in political books;
- Effort by libraries to save rich personal library from auction block;
- Bechdel interviewed at The Believer;
- Friday Fun: I’m the telephone in Goodnight Moon… where’s my fucking tuck-in, bitches?;
- This week in literary feuds: Adichie edition;
- Remember back when the US gov supported writers? I don’t either;