- So of course librarians got in on the fun of creating Zoom backgrounds. Make yourself look like the most bookish of the bookish with one of these library backgrounds. (Library Journal)
- Blair Carpenter looks into the trend of swear-y self-help titles. (Book Riot)
- Naomi Kritzer’s 2015 story, “So Much Cooking,” was supposed to be fiction. But, like many authors of dystopias lately, it turned out to be distressingly prescient. (Tor)
- When a suitor wouldn’t take no for an answer, Christina Rossetti wrote a poem to make herself absolutely clear. (LitHub)
- Every Library (heroes!) is offering grants to librarians in need during the COVID crisis. (Book Riot)
- The nominees for the Hugo Awards are here! (io9)
Who would have thought at the start of the year we’d be worrying about what background to use on a video call. Or even that so many of us would be doing video calls!
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