Welcome to 2022, which is a good year for Soylent Green. It’s hard to believe the pandemic is almost a toddler now. Boy is he ever really getting around on those fat little legs. Please leave the basement door open on the off chance he makes a dash for the stairs.
- Order of Canada goes to some author types, incl Tomson Highway;
- Ottawa Public Library releases most-requested list for 2021;
- Lots of publishing types are putting out books themselves these days, and from the sales, they really seem to either know what people want or have cattleprods held to the throats of the entire publicity team…. Fun fact: Nita Pronovost and I were in a drama class together in high school….;
- Speaking of…. Canadian…. glitterati in …. …. publishing;
- Booker tops survey as world’s most important book prize;
- What the actual F is “literary character licensing?”;
- My holiday break coincided with the BBC’s books of the year list;
- RIP: Ben McFall, bookseller at The Strand, dead at 73;
- What genres are most popular outside English?;
- The kids gave me a Tolkien tshirt for Xmas and when I first unwrapped it, I thought with a Slipknot shirt… I think he’d have been horrified and tickled;
- Today in Floof: literary horoscopes and reading recs for January;
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