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.
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Many of us are probably feeling some variation of “can we be done with summer and just skip to fall right now?” If you’re already looking forward with hope to autumn, you might like to check out 49th Shelf’s 2020 Fall Fiction Preview, featuring a few PQL gems such as Bruce McDougall’s Urban Disturbances, Charlene Elsby’s Affect and D.A. Lockhart’s Breaking Right.
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This is an interesting piece on how modern fantasy literature came to be.
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This article, detailing some CanLit history in which poets were pitted against the police, seems pretty timely.
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This is a sobering piece about the effects of COVID-19 on the publishing industry in Canada.
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Let’s end on a lighter note, shall we? Take a look at the way this artist has condensed famous books into comic strips.

Happy Friday Quill fans! Don’t forget to register to attend the virtual launch of Ed Seaward’s Fair next week. And if you’d like to win a copy, well, that’s on offer, too!
See you soon!

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