- Costa Book Awards given out (which one did these used to be so I can remember how much to care?);
- Norman Mailer book dropped by Random House picked up by press that picks up all the distasteful books discarded by other houses;
- Neruda almost jinxed his Nobel by writing love letters to Stalin;
- What if Beowulf wasn’t the first decent poem in English?;
- Bookfairs start falling to Omicron;
- Guy who stole all those unpublished mss over the years finally arrested;
- New awards for criticism and journalism includes crush-worthy superstar Merve Emre;
- Should a mystery novel be outlined first? No, says guy;
- TS Eliot. famed for poetry and fanboying, started wearing a pince-nez to look more like Chekhov;
- Albert Camus named his cat Cigarette… for real… what’s the dog’s name? Ashtray? Dread of the Void? Healthy Nihilism?;
- Is your view of community changing during the pandemic?;
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