It’s closing in, can you feel it? The orgiastic insanity that will be a vaccinated world? Of course, also closing in is the next variant/disease that will send us back into our holes. Here’s hoping for a 10 year reprieve.

- David Robertson dishes on why he curated book list on residential schools;
- It’s a merry Christmas over at the Dayne Ogilvie Prize;
- Michelle Good on why non-Indigenous people need to speak up;
- NEA gonna make it rain;
- How is Korean company WattPad doing?;
- Did you guys see Bo Burnham’s new “comedy” special “Inside”? It’s bizarre and perhaps the only piece of pandemic art I’ve seen actually work — a genuinely fascinating piece;
- Don McLean book no one wanted cancelled to vast array of shrugs;
- On the death of the in-flight magazine;
- The teens have taken the reins in book-influencing via the TikToks;
- On hoax diaries: the original deepfakes;
- Baba Wawa to wewease new memwah;
- What happens when your national literature goes out of print?;