- Novelist Elisabeth de Mariaffi (aka Ms. Ninja) recommends three thriller picks for your summer;
- Poet Lorna Crozier reflects on a life lived with poet Patrick Lane;
- Remember that Steven Beattie is halfway through his short story month gig over at That Shakespearean Rag… not to be missed;
- Kim Stanley Robinson interviewed; we live in a scifi novel;
- BookRiot asks, what makes a good biography?
- Don’t feed the trolls: should writers engage with the strange internet folk who make it their business to stalk, surveille, and harass them? I’ve tried, it doesn’t work. Best to walk away. You put your hands between the bars once and get bit, that’s understandable — you do it again, it’s on you;
- Conjunctions: “not dead yet”;
- In international publisher news: sales are up; confidence down;
- Publishing Triangle awards winners announced;
- Patricia Lockwood wins Dylan Thomas Prize… points menacingly at Sally Rooney then slowly and deliberately draws thumb across throat;
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