This week on the bookish internet

• Maryse Condé has been awarded the Alternate Nobel Literature Prize. (The Guardian)
• Rebecca Fosters shares some moments of reading serendipity. (Bookish Beck)
• Constance Grady looks at the question of separating art from the artist through the lens of literary criticism—which I found very helpful. (Vox)
• Alison Forner shares her process in creating a book cover at the author’s request. (LitHub)
• Mai al-Nakib reflects on what it feels like to be banned in her home country, Kuwait. (World Literature Today)
• Is this the first comic strip? (Ars Technica)
• Even Milton’s pranks were nerdy. (Public Domain Review)
• Olivia Páez writes in praise of “unlikeable” women characters. (Book Riot)