This is the story of a woman whose childhood was filled with disruptions and changes that she didn’t understand — until her mother summoned her to a hotel to tell her (finally) the truth.

Alyssa Cole talked to Vulture about writing a black princess heroine in her latest romance novel.

Robot love stories are always stories about consent (says the terrific Emily Asher-Perrin).

Claudia Rankine has written a play! How cool is that? AND WITH ME SO FAR AWAY FROM NEW YORK WHERE IT WILL EVENTUALLY BE ON THE STAGE.

More book designers and how they work! I will never tire of this genre of links, so I’m hoping that you like them too because otherwise you may find my link round-ups repetitive.

The romance diversity stats for 2017 are actually worse than the ones for 2016. People need to do the fork better. And this is before the news arrived that Crimson Romance is shutting its doors.

Rahawa Haile is typically brilliant on the subject of Black Panther, a movie I have now seen so consequently I can finally read all the awesome takes on it that people have been writing.

Octopuses might not even be all that great. That one octopus that escaped from the zoo might not even really have done it.

Why are TV detectives all so sad?

Nicole Chung writes about writing a memoir while grieving one of its central figures. I got choked up, friends.

Sherman Alexie’s flaws and failures were evident long before the sexual harassment claims came out (but white readers declined to see them).

Daniel Mallory Ortberg has come out as trans, and he’s been typically thoughtful and funny on the subject of his transition and his new book. An interview with Nicole Chung. Another interview with Heather Havrilesky.

A South African writer considers the question of whether people like Bari Weiss and Katie Roiphe are being censored. (They are not.) It is the best. THE BEST.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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