All my nerdy lit friends (e.g. all my Ploughshares colleagues, among others) are excited for the launch of Literary Hub, a new aggregate of literary news around the Web.
I’m a sucker for any news about Kanye West, and was psyched to see if there was a connection between him and V.S. Naipaul. Spoiler alert: Naipaul’s biographer, Patrick French, was merely having a laugh while proving a point about how readers overlook footnotes. Bummer.
Aren’t they!? Love this turn of phrase.
“Fact.”
I’ve been loving the range of bookstore tweets with their Black History Month displays…but let’s keep them up all year round, please!