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.

• As you all know, I’ve been excited about Mark Frutkin’s upcoming book, The Artist and the Assassin, for a while now. The novel is about the life of famously mercurial painter Caravaggio and a fictional foil, the down-on-his-luck assassin, Luca. It just so happened that I stumbled across a video re-creating Caravaggio’s artistic process, which just might conveniently get you excited for the upcoming book.

• “Who is to say that an act is in bad taste? One person might ignore certain social conventions, thinking them out-of-date, while another, more finicky sort might judge that behavior a violation of good manners.” On the complicated subject of taste in art.

• Check your closets, clean out your attics and declutter your garages! They might be hiding long-lost literary treasure, like this Revolutionary War diary acquired by the Museum of the American Revolution.

• Do you like new and interesting takes on novels, but avoid ponderous “experimental” fiction? Try these books by authors “redefining the novel without being obnoxious about it”.

• “Through her earthy, plainspoken, conversational, yet sublime poetry, Brewster comes as a ghost to remind us we are all fellow travellers.” What a wonderful review of The Essential Elizabeth Brewster over at The Ormsby Review.

That’s it for this week’s roundup. We’ll see you back here next week—same time, same place—for more of our most clickable bookish links.

Cheers,