
- ‘Ninja pal and my surrogate mom-by-choice Michelle Good garners yet another award, adds it to horde on which she sleeps like Smaug;
- TIFA launches with some new writers;
- The Puritan launches Austin Clarke prize;
- New Ursula Le Guin prize coming as well;
- Gawker digs further into The Believer collapse: mismanagement and neglect vs the official narrative;
- Tracy Smith on Lucille Clifton? Yes please;
- I had to look up who Solange was…. this is a good initiative;
- Indie publishers in spotlight at Frankfurt;
- Speaking of: Reimagining the bookstore for sustainability;
- The most innovative library in the US is in… Memphis?;
- Curtis Sittenfeld on the importance of (and bad rap received by) Sweet Valley High books;