Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form.

• Hard work, low pay, fickle bosses … it’s a hard life for a writer. An eye-opening account of the unemployed life of a professional writer.
• Want to be the next publishing darling? Make sure you put together a rocking submission package with these tips (plus a bonus submission checklist for anyone planning to submit to PQL).
• That face you make when someone says “irregardless” and 16 other faces that grammar nerds will recognize.
• “If a picture is worth a thousand words, then The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson is worth 109,000 words.” Robert Reid on George A. Walker’s fascinating book of wood engravings.
• Partisan Magazine has been making a splash with its refreshing ability to take a firm, unapologetic stance when it comes to criticism. Find out more about the origins of the magazine in this Winnipeg Review interview with Partisan founders Jason Guriel and Michael Lista.
• And finally, this obsessively detailed map of epic literary road trips. This makes me a) want a car; b) want time off; and c) travel the open road on an epic cross-country adventure of my own. Who’s with me? (C’mon guys. Gas is expensive!)

Thanks for tuning in to this week’s update. See you back here next Friday for more of the best of the literary Internet.

Cheers,