- Griffin Prize shortlisted authors dish on their views on poetry;
- Haligonian takes top UK kids illustration prize for the second time;
- I assign Bishop’s “One Art” as an example during my lectures on the Villanelle… It’s exquisite and near perfect. Here the NYT does a “close reading” of it, for those new to the idea of caring about poetry;
- Print sales are being led by fiction;
- RIP: Janet Malcolm, writer, dead at 86;
- Young Lions Fiction Award handed out Stateside;
- One the wild early days of the US comic book industry;
- Bleeding ears: discovering Shatner’s spoken word album in a bakery;
- I thought Will Smith had already told his life story, in the form of the opening jingle to Fresh Prince?;
- Hilary Mantel wins Walter Scott Prize for a second time;
- On the fine line bookstores walk in Hong Kong;
- Bow-tie-transportation-system Fucker Carlson writes book about S&S censoring Cons… coming this summer from … S&S… what a morally bankrupt, opportunistic twat;
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