Bookish News
- Amazon Makes ‘Climate Pledge’ As Workers Plan Walkout (NPR; see also Amazon’s press release)
- 2019 National Book Award Longlists Announced (Publishers Weekly)
- Tonga to open first public library system with thousands of books donated from NZ (RNZ)
Worth Reading/Viewing
- Margaret Atwood: ‘For a long time we were moving away from Gilead. Then we started going back towards it’. Atwood talks about why she decided to write The Testaments. (interview, The Guardian)
- From Animal Farm to Catch-22: the most regrettable rejections in the history of publishing. (The Guardian)
- Why Angry Librarians Are Going to War With Publishers Over E-books (Heather Schwedel, Slate)
- I’m Just the Guy To Write Your Female Empowerment Series. Spot-on satire by Jessie Gaskell (McSweeney’s)
- Are You the One? Exploring the Chosen One Trope in SFF (Katy Rose Pool, Tor.com)
- Gender and the Hugo Awards, By the Numbers. Don’t be mislead by the tables — the x’s indicate the years in which there were no nominees for a particular gender, or only one of that gender, so of course there are more x’s in the “Women” table. There’s a nice visual of the gender split in Hugo nominations here.
- Four new words in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and what they say about 2019 (Fast Company)
- Biblioteca Palafoxiana. Take a look at the first public library in the Americas. The library, which dates back to 1646, is in Puebla, Mexico. (Atlas Obscura)
Great Blog Posts
- Does Reading Get Better As You Age? (Lory at The Emerald City Book Review)
Awesome Lists
Just for Fun
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Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
That link on gender at the Hugos is illuminating. And upsetting.
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