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‹ How Margaret Atwood declines blurb requests

Read a book — it could save your sanity
“A wonderful way to think about possibilities… to explore exotic politics”: End your week right with some Octavia Butler
A gaggle of critical theorists come to Avital Ronell’s defense
Elon Musk millionairesplains Marxism to a lefty publishing house, or, How much musk would an Elon musk if an Elon could musk musk?
This Cleveland-based publisher plans to launch a series of overlooked Midwestern classics
An iconic literary agency is fleeced by its accountant
Ursula Le Guin wrote a character with “red-brown” skin; fifty years later, he’s finally being depicted as a person of color
Meet the hedge fund manager who’s going to blow up the publishing industry by paying authors half the, uh, profits on their books
New types of deals between Audible and authors might mean trouble for publishers
A UK jury’s being forced to read a book on Jerusalem artichokes in a landmark vegecide trial

VIDA have published their 2017 Count, the first of the #MeToo era
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette fires an editorial cartoonist for being “too angry”
Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote adaptation somehow encounters more trouble
The Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist has been announced
We put together an anthology of soccer writing for World Cup season
Oh, God, a Mike Pence bio is coming
Elon Musk millionairesplains Marxism to a lefty publishing house, or, How much musk would an Elon musk if an Elon could musk musk?