This week on the bookish internet

• Rachel Triesman talks to Mike Gillis (head writer, The Onion) about his epic amicus brief to the Supreme Court in defense of parody. (NPR)
• CT Jones finds that BookTok are, unlike a lot of social media influencers, resisting offers from big business. (Rolling Stone)
• Addison Rizer looks into why some authors don’t use quotation marks for dialogue. (Book Riot)
• Kavita Das turns the question of “who is the right person to tell a story?” into “how does one become the right person to tell a story?” (Electric Literature)
• Lyndsie Manusos explains a variety of fantasy sub-genres. I do love an explainer of sub-genres; they make it so much easier to talk about stories and find recs. (Book Riot)
• …and your weekly installment of censorship news from Book Riot.

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