Might take a week or two off to concentrate on not letting the holidays be ruined by the pandemic, etc. If I disappear, that’s where I am and I’ll be back in January. Schools just closed down early here, so let’s see how it goes.
- Hey, red letter day: the Quill has posted an article not behind a paywall for us plebs to read along with their dozens of librarians and handful of publishing royalty people with trade mag budgets;
- Best thrillers of the year according to Crime Reads includes Ms. Ninja’s The Retreat — pick it up for someone in your house to read on Boxing Day;
- LitHub is reviewing and ranking the reviews;
- BookRiot is matching donations to fight library censorship;
- Tiny book, giant price tag;
- What are you doing for the holidays? Don’t bother answering if you’re a lawyer for PRH or S&S… we already know;
- Our oldest fear is disaster from space? Huh. I would have bet “tigers”;
- Vice and its writers reach a deal to ensure more content slurry;
- Samwise-I-would-have-got-there-and-back-again-in-half-the-time-if-I-wasn’t-dragging-this-whiny-fucking-twat-along-Gamgee has a book club?;
- The Believer looks at the origins of the Jim Crow typeface;
- The Hugos have been skewing female lately, which must drive about 30% of the sci-fi world into a Tiki-torch frenzy;
- Today in Floof: obituaries for the literary arguments we forgot about;
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