Tuesday News: Marry a girl who reads or don’t; The cult of angry young men...
The end of kindness: weev and the cult of the angry young man – Have you heard of the Free Weev movement. Weev is a famed internet hacker who decided a woman on the internet displeased him. In...
View ArticleFriday News: Amazon’s wacky algorithms, Fandom and corporate publicity,...
The (Unintentional) Amazon Guide to Dealing Drugs – For those of you who routinely give the side eye to Amazon’s algorithms, here’s a true story that is both absurd and frightening. It seems that a...
View ArticleWednesday News: books and their authors
“Promotion is expensive”: Elena Ferrante on anonymity – Last year I posted a news link to an interview with Elena Ferrante, in which she talked about her refusal to do promotional work for her own...
View ArticleJOINT REVIEW: Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Sirius and I both read accolades for Casey McQuiston’s debut, Red, White and Royal Blue, an m/m New Adult romance. We decided to review it together. – Janine What happens when America’s First Son falls...
View ArticleREVIEW: The View was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
Dear Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, I wonder if your debut novel, The View was Exhausting, was published as romantic mainstream fiction. If so it’s a romance regardless. There’s a central love...
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