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“I just want you to know that just like the airbrushed bodies in magazines don’t really look like that, the gorgeous rooms in the IKEA and Container Store catalogs and Houzz and House Beautiful don’t look like that in real life, or 92 days into quarantine, or three days after Christmas, or in the middle [...]

All over Florida, it’s drizzling with dazzling monotony. Poetrylandia 3 “Fortune Written on Wet Grass is now on sale. “The staff and board of directors of the Poetry Foundation have published an open letter to Foundation membership in response to an ongoing controversy at the organization sparked by an open letter sent to the Foundation [...]

“The heritage site where author wrote all her novels says it could be forced to close for ever because all of its operational budget comes from visitors.” Jane Austen museum under threat due to coronavirus, by Richard Lea, The Guardian, 11 June 2020 “Los Angeles is in a housing crisis. Yet up to 100,000 units, [...]

“In tribute to the memory of George Floyd, who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police, and in support of the worldwide outcry over his death, PW’s comics editors have compiled a list of graphic titles about African American life and history. The titles listed here are primarily nonfiction graphic works that address topics [...]

“In a surprising development in the direct market comics shop channel, DC is ending its 25-year relationship with Diamond Comic Distributors, the dominant distributor of comics periodicals in North America. Beginning June 8, comics shop retailers must order comics periodicals and graphic novels from Lunar Distribution or from UCS Comic Book Distributors; book trade retailers [...]

“The now prophetic words could be found buried at the end of a research paper published in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews in October of 2007: ‘The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic animals in southern China, is a time bomb.’ The warning [...]

“…overview of the Posse Comitatus Act, which restricts the participation of the (US) military in domestic law enforcement activities under many circumstances.” Overview of the Posse Comitatu Act, by RAND, pdf “…restricts the participation of the (US) military in domestic law enforcement activities under many circumstances.” As in ALL circumstances, possibly excepting a foreign military [...]

“‘The early picture has been turbulent and bracing, with physical sell-in for all manga publishers down by half or more,’ says Ben Applegate, Penguin Random House’s director of publishing services. ‘That’s significantly worse than graphic novels overall. Before Covid-19, online sales had been gaining ground, but brick-and-mortar stores—Barnes & Noble in particular—still represented a relatively [...]

“Two years later, in 2017, I wrote an article for Leader’s Edge predicting the climax to a crisis sometime between 2019 and 2021. It’s not magic, and I’m not a futurist. My predictions come from an understanding of the cycles of history. Over the past four centuries, America has repeated the same four distinct periods, [...]