- CBC Short Story Prize is open for submissions;
- Our man Coupland gets heat for defending Elon Musk;
- Sheila Heti talks trusted first readers… I have two… then after that, a circle of second readers, each with a different aesthetic and absolutely zero compunction to coddle me;
- B&N riding this wave to the bank;
- Anne Enright talks wild success Sally Rooney;
- On Le Guin and worldcraft;
- Little bookshelf oddity pr0n;
- Salmon Rushdie will serialize his new novel on substack… goddammit, I guess I need another friggin app?
- “It’s okay if you don’t like to read” [quotes mine]
- The science behind why you suddenly need to poop upon entering a bookstore… look, I wish I had made this up, but I didn’t, so just go read it and share my pain about the state of science and journalism;
- Dear pious folk: there’s big money in old prayer books;
- Fran Lebowitz on her “sudden fame” via the old RCA box;
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