Anyway, here are some other links.

So I’m feeling some kind of way about all the predictably sympathetic coverage of the Austin bomber, and here’s a thing Ijeoma Iluo wrote.

“Angels in America gentrifies blackness out of the American AIDS story”: Steven Thrasher on the most prominent AIDS story we continue to tell.

And now for some good news: Sales at feminist presses are up!

A meeting of the mutual admiration society between NK Jemisin and Neil Gaiman. How heartwarming.

Are we applying (yes) different standards to artists who are also mothers (yes)?

Accessibility at AWP, the country’s largest conference for creative writers, was — not great.

Gina Rodriguez is your Carmen Sandiego. What a blessing.

Constance Grady is here to explain why Ready Player One seemed like harmless fun when it came out, versus the toxic madness it seems like now.

Publishers and bookstores grapple with the recent revelations of harassment by kidlit authors.

We might — have a whole other organ that we didn’t know about before? Y’all, science is wild.

Roxane Gay enjoyed the first two episodes of the Roseanne reboot. She’s not watching any more of it.

Becky Albertalli has your list of queer YA books to enjoy!

There is a story about Dostoevsky meeting Dickens that you may have heard. It’s fiction. But that made-up story — first written about in an article for The Dickensian — is just the tip of an iceberg of scholarly fraud.

Alexandra Petri is a national treasure. “If male authors described men the way they describe women.”

Last but not least, there’s an incredible StoryBundle of world SF, and you can have it as your own for most of the month of April. Hop on it! Ten awesome books for fifteen dollars!

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