- Jared Bland, known for getting and leaving important positions in Canadian culture, is out at M&S, but this time for a health reason, while former literary agent Stephanie Sinclair is in as publisher, which makes me wonder two things: 1) what took so long? and 2) what’s going to happen to that list of great writers (with a significant Indigenous component) Sinclair was repping? Here’s hoping they are well cared for;
- Changes are also afoot at S&S in the US;
- Why inappropriate books are the best kind of books;
- Orwell Prizes winners;
- PRH does the good work of hiring billboards in Texas and Florida advertising their Queer authors;
- Caine Prize for a short story goes to Kenyan writer Idza Luhumyo;
- How to run a literary festival;
- Can libraries help you earn out your advance?;
- Today in Floof: the personal bookplates of 18 famous writers… man, I loved bookplates as a kid…they were so….archaic;
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