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.

• Looks like there’s lots of excitement for Michael Lista’s new book, Strike Anywhere, which comes out in Spring 2016! Read more about the book here.
• It’s getting to be that time of year—the time when gift-giving takes over our collective psyche. Check out these must-have gifts for grammar nerds.
• In the noteworthy events category, George A. Walker will lecturing in Baltimore at MICA. Love to our American friends!
• For your browsing pleasure, we’ve compiled a list of fantastic books on art and artists. We’ve got biography and memoir, we’ve got theory and criticism, we’ve got drawings and sketches and engravings . . . and they make great gifts for your loved ones—or yourself!
• And finally, do you dream of one day joining the ranks of those mythical creatures—published authors? CBC Books suggests these books you should read if you want to be a writer. (Alistair MacLeod . . . *swoons*)

Thanks for checking out the PQ Weekly Roundup this Friday the 13th. Stop on by next week for more of the best of the bookish Internet.

Cheers,