Literary Loitering - Irreverent Mockery With Cultural Anarchists

So 2020 is over, but thanks to some cunning and stealthy arrangements our cultural anarchists hid away a couple of episodes.

 

This time around we have tales of a secret but obvious message left by a librarian, an art dealer’s racist selfies, a scholar who lied about their race, a painter’s untrue memoirs, a fake Rembrandt painting that isn’t fake and all sorts of other stuff. 

 

We also have a quiz about badly translated quotes.

These are strange times we're living in, which is why it's good to carry a stick as part of your EDC. A good stick is a very useful object as it can be used as a walking aid, for fishing, thrashing, emergency kindling, and in the case of our resident cultural anarchists, poking fun at the world (while avoiding surprise bears).

This week we discover that Ready Player One is somehow getting a sequel (we're not sure how that's going to work either). In other more important news, there's a new collection of Terry Pratchett short stories due for publication, The Great Gatsby is now in the public domain (which means all of that fanfiction can now be published), Donald Trump Jr. has apparently written another book (we still haven't discovered why he was fired the first time), someone is going around collecting mountweazels, and all sorts of other stuff.

We also have another of our semi-regular quizzes, and this time it's all about mondegreens (misheard lyrics).

It’s time for another dose of the cultural anarchy that cures all ailments (medically proven by travelling salesmen in the Old West).

 

In the news this week are Waterstone’s “controversial” idea about displaying books, why you shouldn’t microwave books, yet another tell-all book about Donald Trump, things that make you go … really?!, and other tales from the apocalypso (other tropical shirt-wearing armageddons also probably exist somewhere).

 

Oh, and GRR Martin is typing … allegedly.