The Victoria/Memorial Day Weekend here in Canada is over and we on the East Coast actually got nice weather for once. Fine, universe. You’re not a complete dick.
- CanLit Fairy-Godmother Shelagh Rogers awarded Symons Medal;
- Joanna Chiu wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize;
- With usual “flare” for drama, Margaret Atwood releases a “fireproof” copy of The Handmaid’s Tale (not to be mistake for porn parody version, The Handmade Tail);
- First page contest for spec fic yields a bunch of winner students;
- Miriam Toews gets stellar Guardian review;
- Batshit Republicans are trying to stops sales of a book at the source;
- US BIPOC publishing types talk burnout;
- Adrian Matejka, new editor at Poetry, talks turkey;
- Dublin Prize goes to loser;
- Time’s list of most influential people has only one novelist… guess who;
- Bram the Defiler: this monster used to like to write in library books;
- Today in Floof: your Spring reading horoscope;
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