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This week on the bookish internet

  • Nikki Griffiths reports on an unforeseen (although it should have been considered) issue of what happens when non-binary and transgender people are listed for gendered literary prizes. (Moby Lives)
  • Watch out for bundled reviews on Amazon. (The Guardian)
  • I am really digging Emily Temple’s series of one-star reviews of classic novels. This week, 1984 is in the crosshairs. (LitHub)
  • Kate Bollick reveals that the life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman was more interesting (and troubling) than her fiction. (New York Review of Books)
  • Because it was April Fool’s this week, Gal Beckerman and Tina Jordan rounded up their favorite literary hoaxes. (The New York Times)