June 9 list with no context

June 18-26 of 2016 is Independent Bookshop Week in the UK. Perfect reason to take a trip, no? #IBW2016

Another Round, the life-giving/saving/enriching podcast from Buzzfeed has a newsletter. The newsletters are archived. Because you want to sign up for the thing, but maybe you've just discovered it and want all of the Vines and all of the links and everything that makes the Internet worthwhile.

PubWest Book Design Awards are announced. The list has no images of the designs that won, but, hey.

Lisa McInerney has won the Baileys Women's Prize. For actual information, go here.

Does Literary Criticism Have a Grade Inflation Problem? from Alex Shepard at The New Republic. I mean, outside of it seems like people really miss being able to read a book being thoroughly destroyed in print (humans are weird), there is a sense that in a changing cultural climate, the standards for "good" and "bad" are shifting dramatically, so maybe the rating systems that exist are part of the problem. Which is not what the article is actually about, mind. It's just what happened in my head when I read it.

The (Amazon) problem is bigger than you think.

There is this: The Depressed Cake Shop. Raising awareness for mental health one gray cake at a time. (thanks to Cliff for showing me this)

Also are you getting Two Bossy Dames newsletter? Because they wrote a lot about Lady Rage the other day and it is getting me in all the places and everyone needs to be talking about it. (hint: they get The Hulk thing)(it is everything)

New Segment!
Cliff-approved Movie Ideas: So. It's a coming of age buddy movie about three groups of girls getting to a Beyoncé concert. Ava Duvernay directs this rollicking road trip comedy about three groups of girls - two of them rivals at the same school just after their sophomore year, another their older sisters who are headed off to college - trying to navigate their way across the suburbs to the sold-out Beyoncé concert the night after graduation. Hijinks ensue as cell phones die, GPS lies and hapless though loving boyfriends & family members just get in the way. Stay in your seats after the show for amazing backstage selfies! Dream cast includes Amandla Stenberg, Tessa Thompson, Quevenzhané Wallis, Skai Jackson, Willow Smith, This Girl Who Is The Hero Of All Of Us, John Boyega (as the boyfriend who Kind of Gets It), and RJ Cyler (as the boyfriend who Is Learning It).