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.
- People are very excited about the latest issue of the Devil’s Artisan—and rightly so! A fascinating feature chock full of illustrations, an adorable keepsake, and returning favourite columns … what more could you as for?
- An important post for Mental Health Week: How poetry can help us understand mental illness.
- Wow, take a look at that gorgeous wood engraving on the cover of Geist magazine. Look familiar? That’s because it’s from Jim Westergard’s wonderful book, Oddballs! Check out more of Jim’s work in the latest issue.
- Booksellers are a rare breed of awesome. More evidence in this funny/adorable post on what booksellers are thinking when they’re shopping in someone else’s bookstore.
- And finally, a bit of the ridiculous to round out your Friday. Walt Whitman has been identified as the author of a weird, contradictory and chauvinistic Manly Health and Training series published in the New York Atlas in 1858. Guys, he says you should “guard your manly power.” Just thought you should know.
Hope you enjoyed this week’s update. My prescription for the weekend: stop staring at your computer/phone screen and get your butt outside! Seriously, take a book and go.
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