This week on the bookish internet

• Neha Patel has suggestions for finding new authors to take you out of your reading comfort zone. (Book Riot)
• Most authors don’t make nearly as much as they deserve for their work, but Michelle Debczak found 10 authors who are doing more than all right for themselves. (mental floss)
• Eric Farwell takes issue with terrible, vague book blurbs. (Slate)
• Matthew James Seidel puts the spotlight on Toni Morrison’s first novels. (The Medium)
• Michael Waters gallops through the history of gender-neutral pronouns. (The Atlantic)