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I've been on the phone to my Mum (she says hi!). She's sad about the queen. She told me about watching her coronation and how strange it will be without her being around. I kinda get that.

‘Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.’ We’ve brought Alan Bennett’s story ‘The Uncommon Reader’, first published in the LRB in 2007, in front of the paywall for the next few days: https://t.co/gUXNHDIikC https://t.co/gggnL7pYeu

This list has nonfiction on witches, space, genealogy, and more. There's something for everyone, in other words. https://t.co/UdFlpmU3EI

"Growing up, I never set anything I wrote in a town like my own because I just never saw it done. And so I thought, fiction just doesn’t take place in the Rust Belt." https://t.co/sJXFPUcbMr

Beth Macy on the harm of how we are acculturated with Drug War thinking. https://t.co/MSADr64MbW

We don't know where this queer, gender bent Hamlet graphic novel has been all our lives, but we're glad to finally have it. 🙌 #ad. @LegComicsYA https://t.co/MM2J4L8HOJ

“My mother tied me, too, / for flotation, to a story / she’d anchored at the heavypoint” https://t.co/WMY8YmQ0du

New Miles Morales, an Anne of Green Gables retelling, and more: https://t.co/XN8RxudlGP

America’s best bookstore pets, from the classic bookstore cat to bookstore chinchillas and turtles! https://t.co/EdbFL8BJJ2

New Elena Armas, a ghost romance (!), academic rivals to lovers, and *so much more*. https://t.co/Im602O0i4p

"When you get kicked out of community college, when you get beat down, who are you going to run to, who are you going to tell?" https://t.co/qcIDqwB1W5

"In the cases of formal challenges, the challenged book stayed 71% of the time." And yet... https://t.co/Weqf1BaqBQ

Which of these shirts are you getting to rep that D&D love? https://t.co/i4jrXMpMXf

Have you done the Sealey or any other poetry challenge? https://t.co/J4tZUk9P2T

What's the most outrageous instance of superhero time stream shenanigans? https://t.co/2Tt7jM2xyQ