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.

• Fans of our Essential Poets series were pleased to note that the latest addition to the series, The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, is now available in print and digital formats!

• The academic pressure of “publish or perish” has been around for quite a while, but some researchers are taking issue with this kind of culture, saying that many of the papers produced “serve no purpose, advance no agenda, may not be correct, make no sense, and are poorly read. But they are required for promotion.”

• Happy Short Story Month! If you’d like to expand your appreciation of the genre, here are some Canadian collections to keep you reading.

• Looking for reading recommendations? Here are a few book recommendation websites that just might be able to put you on the trail to your next great read.

• It’s easy to be blasé about photo manipulation in the age of Photoshop, but you can’t deny that the creativity, humour and mischievousness in 20th-century “trick photography” is impressive.

Don’t forget, this week’s Short Story Month feature lets you download the eBook of D.A. Lockhart’s story collection Breaking Right for 50% off with the promo code RIGHT. Snag your copy today!

Happy reading,