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.

• “Some manuscripts survive the collapse of civilization, others do not; it seems unlikely that these survivals and disappearances precisely track merit.” Interesting article on the fleeting nature of (literary) fame.

• I love a good bookish crime story, particularly when they are just as strange—if not stranger—than fiction!

• Shout out to Mary Gartside, a woman whose studies on colour theory were ahead of her time.

• “How Brewster (1922–2012) achieved so much in her life … yet still flies under the radar of ‘well‐known’ Canadian authors remains a mystery. Review of The Essential Elizabeth Brewster in The Malahat Review.

• Finally, don’t you love a good poetry profile? This month, we featured Jeffery Donaldson, a supremely smart poet with a few fantastic collections under his belt—and a new one on the way that I’m particularly excited to see!

Hope you enjoyed this week’s roundup of amusing and horizon-expanding bookish links. Hope you have a great weekend full of reading!

Happy Friday,