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The last couple of weeks have been busy. First, we learned German to report on the Frankfurt Book Fair, then we passed the New York Bar to comment on the Department of Justice’s lawsuit to stop Penguin Random House from absorbing Simon & Schuster. So we’re short this week. Apologies, but we have a lot of other work to do besides SHuSH and it’s been piling up.

Twitter has less and less to recommend it these days but still has its moments, especially in its literary corners. One of my favorite follows is @TheEsteemedFox who a couple of weeks ago posted this: