- Huge: new bill to protect freelancers introduced in New York State;
- On the science behind bookstore design;
- 20 writers on being rejected (my favourite ever rejection came from a lit mag that send a tiny, logo’d card back in my SASE with one word in ballpoint pen: “Nope!”);
- How Octavia Butler came to writing — via a bad scifi movie;
- A new translation press for women in England;
- Speaking of translators: scenes from a life;
- Waterstones Children’s book prize;
- Back when literary feuds were conducted by index rather than subTweets;
- Bertnay gets $15m to “write” memoir;
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