News catch up

I haven’t felt much like posting since my friend died last week, but here’s a few links to keep you relatively up to date.

• 2022 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award shortlists;
• LA Times Book Prizes winners;
• The six novels on the Women’s Prize Shortlist;
• Commonwealth Short Story Prize lists;
• The Rome Prize in Literature winners revealed;
• Before we all say we’re going to quit Twitter because of Elon Musk but we don’t because we’re hopeless addicts and so much of how we know to be in the world involves these stupid platforms designed to waste our time while collecting our metadata, you should check out this account that collects bad writing;
• Someone is serializing Dracula over email;
• Texas library officials sued over book banning — challenge it, people!;
• Usually when you see the words “Florida man” in a headline, they’re not followed by something as clever as this: Florida man tries to ban Bible during the state’s Nazi campaign to ban other books;
• Nobel laureate Glück goes over to the dark side…. fiction…eew;
• Is the mystery novel the perfect literary form?;
• Harper Collins tries out social media “readalong”;
• WHITE HOT FIRES OF ANGUISH IN OREGON LITERARY COMMUNITY;
• When you set out to finish your deceased father’s work and end up going your own way;
• Not everyone has a novel in them, but a piece flash fiction?;
• Today in (quite literal) Floof: cat bookstores;