It’s summer and I’m frankly having a hard time justifying reading internet articles while the sun shines (I live in one of the foggier places on Earth), so if there are still people out there reading this, please excuse my erratic posting until the end of the good weather. Should only be a few hours.
- Souvankham Thammavongsa reflects on winning the Giller;
- Steven Beattie with some coverage of the copyright loss for writers;
- Oh, hell yes: Michie Mee to release memoir;
- Canadian Inuit youth working on educational comic book;
- Sam Hiyate, who has always been a great agent for Sam Hiyate, launches new podcast;
- Stephen King is writing a coronavirus novel;
- It’s not just for Belarus anymore: Censorship on the rise world-wide;
- Speaking of Belarus: a shitty place to be an intellectual rn;
- RIP: Eloise Greenfield, children’s author, dead at 92;
- Tomine’s graphic memoir to become animated series;
- BBC takes a stab at naming best books of the year so far;
- Rejection letter erasure poems;
- One of the fondest childhood memories I have is when the Bookmobile came to our small town school… Imagine: a bus full of books… Nerdreamy… apparently you can just start your own;
- LAT editorial: do away with library fines;
- Author who denies using racial stereotypes in her book to remove racial stereotypes from future editions of her book — apologize, make amends, and move on should be your mantra when you fuck up, people… everyone is a dick sometimes, but denying it and acting like the victim only compounds your dickishness;
Bookninja 