
- Canada Reads begins livestreaming today — love the list, but rooting for Good to win!;
- Rosemary Sullivan defends Anne Frank book she wrote but didn’t research;
- ALA polls finds Americans overwhelmingly oppose book bans;
- How is publishing preparing itself for Web 3.0 and the so-called metaverse?;
- Poem in Your Pocket Day is coming back for year 20 (I’ve received a few letters over the years from kids who used my poems and it warms my dark heart, I tell you);
- Dear honey: my Christmas gift is solved;
- Zadie Smith to be presented with PEN’s literary service (??) award;
- Poetry makes it into Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court hearing;
- I’m pretty sure one of the most obvious signs that you’re on the wrong side of an issue (and history) is that Vladimir Putain has your back;
- Today in Literary Floof: How to eat and drink like famous authors;